Job Openings Talent Specialist

About the job Talent Specialist

Duties and responsibilities:

  • Encourage talent promotion and mobility within and across the business 
  • Work with and influence HR Business Partners and Executives to identify, develop and retain key talent
  • Develop a positive relationship with employees by giving focus to career development through individual development, career pathing, and progression.
  • Act as a liaison between HR and Line Managers to connect the best internal talent to existing
    opportunities.
  • Drive the talent management and succession planning processes and documentation for DL
    grade and below.
  • Collate and coordinate information for annual Talent and Organisational Reviews Manage
    the 360 Degree activity for the group annually
  • Coordinate activities that bring focus to talent and development.
  • Conduct training on any changes or updates to the performance management system to
    relevant stakeholders
  • Advise the business on performance management principles, techniques, and best practice.
  • Keep abreast with industry changes and evolutions to ensure internal processes are relevant
    to business needs.
  • Project manage and coordinate key business projects not limited to Top Employer,
    Management Trainee Recruitment, system implementation, and enhancement
  • Design and implementation of the appropriate change management principles and
    methodologies to ensure the change lands effectively in the business.
  • Ad hoc projects are relevant to business priorities.
  • Collaborate with all relevant HR COE teams to ensure execution of strategy is done in a
    manner that enhances the brand and connection of the HR function.
  • Find opportunities for partnership with HR COE.
  • Keep abreast of legislative changes relevant to employment equity and provide an
    operational interpretation for the business.
  • Coordinate organization transformation programmes through appropriate committees and
    channels.
  • Play the liaison between the national committee and site-based committees.
  • Ensure reporting is accurate and available.
  • Maintaining talent and organizational information ensuring relevance and accuracy
  • Analysis of key data to provide insights into business practice, behavior, and causation.
  • Promote data-driven decision-making within the business by providing meaningful and
    relevant data to HR that drives the desired strategy.

Qualifications and experience:

  • BCOM or BSoc Sci degree in Human Resource Management / Industrial Psychology
  • A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in Talent Management Experience as an HR Generalist would be advantageous
  • Proven track record in change management, talent management principle development, and
    organizational development and design
  • Will be operating as a Talent Management Lead
  • Responsible for driving all Talent Management projects/ programmes within/ across the business in order to promote, develop, manage and expand the organizations talent pool
  • Drive internal talent promotion and mobility within and across the business
  • Engage with and influence HR Business Partners, Executives, and external stakeholders to identify, develop and retain key talent
  • Similar industry experience will be advantageous