Senior HR Business Partner Job in Kenya

Position: Senior HR Business Partner (FMCG EXP a Must)
 

Department: Shared Services
 

Reporting To: Group Head of HR 
 

Scope: To support the HRD to achieve the HR & Development team’s strategic objectives, as set out in the HR Strategic Action Plan by acting as the HR lead on a range of different projects and responsibilities.

To act as Change Agent in Managing Organizational Change where this relates to related activities e.g. restructures, Manpower planning, redundancies and recruitment.

Line Management responsibility for 2 HR Business Partners covering different business and hr intern when applicable.

Job Purpose: To manage the human resources function of the Group in a manner that ensures there is a working environment and a skilled and motivated workforce that facilitates the achievement of business objectives and that the Group is in compliance with employment legislature. 

Create a plan and implement to ensure the Group follows best practices in human resource management.  

Main Responsibilities:
 

Organizational Change

• HR Lead for all restructures within the Company, utilizing the Management of Organizational Change Policy, ensuring that formal consultation processes take place with all affected staff and the trade unions, via the Joint Consultative Committee.
• HR lead on all compulsory redundancy processes, ensuring compliance with employment law and the Company’s Redundancy Policy (and Management of Organizational Change Policy, where appropriate)

Employee Relations

• Responsibility for the HR Case List, ensuring that the HR Business Partners are well supported to deal with all employee relations cases, in accordance with Company Policy and best practice and for producing a regular Case List activity report for the HRD to take to Various meetings.
• Responsibility, with the HRD to ensure that all HR policies and procedures are regularly reviewed and continue to reflect both up-to-date employment law and best practice
• Responsibility for running regular HR Activities/workshops to provide line managers with information on latest employment law changes and how these will impact on their management responsibilities and existing policies and procedures.
• Support employee engagement processes by supporting the HRD at the Staff Forum and Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) meetings, enabling effective negotiation and consultation with trade union representatives in regard to a range of staffing matters.
• Responsibility for the annual Staff Survey, linked to Gallup and analyzing data, benchmarking year on year and production of an Action Plan to address any areas of concern for SLT approval.
• Responsibility, with the Deputy HR Resourcing & Development Manager for Staff Wellbeing, actively seeking ways of supporting the management of workplace stress.
• Responsibility for dealing with workplace conflict through the introduction of an effective mediation service and through the introduction of bullying and harassment ambassadors
• Responsibility with the HRD, for reviewing staff awards processes and to design an effective staff award system which recognizes excellent performance.
• To act as HR lead for all matters associated with Safeguarding within the Company.

HR Generalist

• Support the production of HR updates for all staff, as appropriate.
• Support cultural changes across the Company through a variety of different methods, including implementing action plans following the Staff Survey, enabling managers to more effectively line manage their staff, strongly encouraging managers to take greater responsibility for their staff.
• To support the effective delivery of a higher performing HR service, through the further development of the HR Business Partners, ensuring that the high standards within the team are developed and maintained.
• Acting as an ambassador for the HR Business Partner model, actively driving up standards to highlight the benefits of the model for all staff and managers
• To actively manage direct reports, ensuring that IPRs, Probationary meetings (where applicable) and regular one to one meetings take place to assist the HRD to drive up standards within the team and to ensure that the HR & Development team provide a high level of customer service at all times.

General

The particular duties and responsibilities attached to posts may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed. 

All Company employees are required to undertake the following general duties:

• Carrying out such other duties as may be reasonably requested by the line manager, or any senior manager
• Compliance with health and safety policy and procedures and risk assessments.
• Sharing in the Company’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
• Awareness of the Company’s Equality and Diversity Policy and targets, and actively
• Promoting equality of opportunity.

Person Specification: Senior HR Business Partner

Qualifications:
 

Essential Desirable

• Good standard of education up to Degree level (or relevant experience)
• HRM qualified
• Management Qualification

Knowledge and experience:
 

Essential Desirable

• Excellent working knowledge of employment law with the ability to apply it practically to workplace situations
• Excellent understanding of HR best practice and ability to apply this to employee relations cases
• Experience of formal report writing for different audiences
• Management or Supervisory experience
• Experience of performance management and working within defined policies and procedures
• Experience of leading on organizational change projects including restructures and redundancy programmes
• Experience of using HR software solutions
• Experience of working in a HR department/environment

Skills and Competencies:

Essential Desirable

• Good communication/interpersonal skills
• High level skills of using Microsoft Office packages
• Good verbal and written skills
• Excellent numeracy skills
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to multi-task
• Excellent customer service skills
• Good research and analytical skills

Other qualities:

Essential Desirable

• Professional and approachable
• Tactful and diplomatic
• Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure
• Team player
• Flexibility in approaching work situations
• Able to work confidentially
• Competent in dealing with difficult situations

Email: recruit@kenafricind.com