Your Responsibilities
The Director of Human Resources (DHR) reports to the CEO of GUS Germany and holds overall responsibility for the delivery of the HR Strategy both operationally and strategically, with key focus on aligning HR to the overall business objectives, reduction of employee relation issues, HR policies and procedures, recruitment and retention strategy, payroll, learning and development, employee engagement and all aspects of HRM and streamlining HR processes. The post holder will be responsible for coaching and supporting senior leadership team and managers to implement best HR practice on change management and business transformation.
Key Activities & Responsibilities:
Strategy, Policies and Procedures
- Development and implementation of the HR Strategy in line with the business plan by ensuring HR plans support the needs of the business but are also flexible enough to cope with changes in the organization, as and when they occur
- Support the organization in achieving the strategic alignment of its workforce, culture, processes and systems, driving its strategic goals and to support the national growth of company business transformation projects
- Development and maintenance of all policies and procedures in line with best practice and current legislation, ensuring that all policies and procedures are up to date and legally compliant.
- Report to the Board of Directors on all HR related matters
Employee Relations
- Leading the implementation of a performance management culture and system/process
- Provision of expert HR advice to line managers on all human resource issues: management of conduct, conflict, performance management, among others
- Providing HR process to successfully manage any disciplinary, grievance, redundancy, restructures, contract harmonization issues in a legally compliant approach
- Monitoring sickness absence and putting measures in place to promote employee wellbeing
Recruitment/Talent Management/Learning & Development
- Leading the recruitment function at group level to provide a talent pipeline for a high performing organization
- Leading the process for employees to get their performance objectives, annual reviews and PDP in accordance with company policy and monitor probationary periods
- Develop and maintain a succession plan for all departments
- Creating a leadership development and Management training programme
- Ensuring all Job Descriptions are kept up to date, create new JDs as and when necessary
HR Projects
- Lead the change management and Business Process Re-engineering processes and programme, as well as manage key corporate HR projects. To facilitate the achievement of organizational transformational change through the pursuit of cost efficient, customer orientated processes and associated structures
Reward & Benefits
- Reviewing employee rewards packages with a view to ensuring that GUS is competitive
- Reviewing all staff salaries and make recommendations for pay rises in consultation with department heads for presentation to the RemCo
- Ensuring all HR inputs to payroll is completed accurately and to deadlines in support of the Finance Team
Other
- Attend various management or team meetings to add value to the people function and overall business objectives
- Ensure the Chief of Staff and Group Managing Director are fully aware of any significant issues or problems which arise in relation to any of the above-named areas
- Enhance the HR System for ease of access to all HR processes, policies, templates and forms
- Develop and monitor Human Resources annual budget
- Produce regular reports for line and senior management as well as on demand on data such (but not limited to) as staff turnover, references, cost per hire, training hours per person, among others
- Analyze reports and provide additional insight to support managers on all people related issues
- Define KPIs for the HR team and identify/manage SLAs