Head of People Experience

• Degree in the field of Human Capital (HC) Management, together with a post graduate diploma related to business and/ or leadership.
• Recognition is given to Prior Learning and practical experience.

• 10+ Years relevant experience in a Human Capital management, of which 4 years experience at team and business management level.
• Manufacturing industry experience, especially within pharmaceutical, is advantageous.
• Up-to-date knowledge of sound HR practices, strategy, and technology
• HC Policy and process development.
• Leading Business and Human Capital projects.
• Change leadership methodology and leading organisational change.
• Business writing, metrics development and management/ board level reporting.
• Strong and tested knowledge of South Africas Labour Legislation, pragmatic application of Industrial Relations and representing the company at Union engagements, CCMA, Labour Court, and the Department of Labour.

• Participate in developing the Biovac Human Capital Strategy and provide strategic HC leadership within the business.
• Timeously execute the people strategy through a savvy HC infrastructure and human capital team.
• Remain abreast of own and team professional & personal learning & development.
• Ensure adequate HC team capacity management and cultivate the HC team capability to ensure optimal business partnering across Biovacs business units.
• Develop and implement company policies and practices.
• Develop best-practices and policies that are relevant for the business and aligns with Biovacs employee value proposition and ensure these remain current and effective through ongoing refinement.
• Performance effective and comprehensive costing, budgeting, and expense management, taking all overlapping site activities into consideration while reducing wastage, and contributing to overall profitability.
• Procure, implement, and monitor fit for purpose and cost effective HRIS systems and ensuring sound information is extracted, trended, and reported, to address business challenges and drive culture & people transformation.
• Co-ordinate organisational structuring & overseeing the defining of roles and responsibilities, ensuring
• structures remain optimal so to alleviate bottlenecks within the companys operations.
• Conduct job evaluations, grading & ongoing market benchmarking related to pay and benefits to ensure Biovac remains competitive within the market.
• Oversee the attraction and placement of suitable talent aligned to culture and job fit.
• Ensure the performance management philosophy and methodology is well designed, defined and executed so to drive a seamless performance management planning and review process, with smart transformational KPIs driving high performance across the business.
• Drive a high-performance culture and high-performance results through a sophisticated performance management philosophy & methodology.
• Oversee Company wellness programme & events that enables healthy lifestyles that supports our high performance.
• Drive transformation through optimising Biovacs BBBEE contribution in terms of management control and skills development.
• Prioritise talent retention through ensuring an optimal company culture, rewards and benefits are competitive, effective leadership is in place across the business units, access to meaningful work, access to learning & development, career path visibility and fair access internal mobility,
• Ensure sound employee relations are upheld that fosters ubuntu and drives on time and in full delivery.
• Ensure company compliance with all relevant HR related legislation in the countries that Biovac operate and guide the business on any legislative changes.
• Oversee a sound industrial relations infrastructure and represent the company externally related to employment related litigation.
• Monitor impact and sentiment across leader/ employee engagement channels to ensure the Biovac culture remains in-tact among all internal stakeholders.
• Work with our Corporate Brand team to develop a sound internal communications plan that keeps employees involved, engaged and up to date.
• Deliver customized people centric solutions that instil an optimal people centric culture aligned to the Biovac way and retains talent.
• Ensure all HC projects are scoped timeously and launched with innovation, drive and commitment while monitoring the achievement of the desired outcomes.
• Identify and continuously present key opportunities and synergies that will improve and/ or expand the business within own and/ or other departments.
• Participate with the management team to proactively mitigate risks and find solutions where possible.

• Approachable, consultative, engaging, empowering and supportive team member and team leader.
• Clear, on point and eloquent communication, both verbally and in writing
• Seeks and upholds diversity and fosters inclusion and belonging.
• Transparent, uses sound discretion and is ethical, impartial, and able to seek and respect confidentiality.
• Proactive, agile, and achievement-orientated
• Analytical thinker who critically evaluates situations, opportunities, solutions, and decisions
• Sound commercial mindset with strong business acumen.
• Creative innovator driven by practicality and longevity.

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