People Development Manager

SUMMARY:
Take your experience to the next level and join a multinational manufacturing company, with Group offices situated Globally. Utilise your organisational development experience to implement the development portfolio and enable the organisation development agenda.

POSITION INFO:
Key Focus:

• Plan, source, develop, facilitate, and evaluate training and development interventions.
• Oversee the Group's development portfolio, change management, organisational development, implementing best practice, emerging opportunities, supporting changing business needs, and/or individual career growth and advancement.

• Honours Degree in Human Resource Management, OD, Industrial Organisation Psychology.
• Certificate in Project Management.
• Registered as an Industrial Organisational Psychologist/Psychometrist, a strong advantage.
• Min. 8 to 10 years experience in a similar role, within a manufacturing environment.
• Registered with HPCSA, SIOPSA or SABPP an added advantage, as is a Certification on Psychometric Assessments.

• Proven track record in building organisational capability through development practices.
• Previous experience as an organisational appointed Skills Development Facilitator.
• Seasoned in meeting requirements related to BBBEE/WSP/ATR/EE/SETA/Industry forums and DoL/internal audits.
• Clear history of being a Development Specialist within people development.
• Experience in managing an organisational learning budget.
• Adept with leading and implementing programmatic change initiatives.
• Proven experience in Organisational Development and/or Design practice. Familiarity with agile methods an advantage.
• Highly collaborative and approachable team member with strong soft skill and ability to lead a team. Excellent stakeholder management.
• Experience in managing Senior Managers.
• High level of organisation, attention to detail, professionalism, and reliability.
• Ability to prioritise and manage work in a fast-paced environment across multiple projects and work streams with competing time/resource demands.

• Contribute to the business strategy by identifying, prioritising, and building people capabilities, behaviours, and structures.
• Lead the development of innovative OD and L&D projects, programmes, and initiatives.
• Provide direction and leadership in the development and implementation of change management processes.
• Lead the team to deliver a comprehensive service to wider business and the HRBP Teams.
• Develop, initiate, and maintain effective programs for talent development, retention, promotion, and succession planning.
• Develop, implement, and maintain customised leadership offerings.
• Identify high potential employees across all levels (new and existing) within the business and ensure development is in place to drive business sustainability.
• Drive culture transformation interventions and practices.
• Lead the development of retention strategies for scarce skills.
• Develop a clear company-employer brand and ensure implementation in all HR processes.
• Define framework for career counselling, coaching, and mentoring.
• Establish ways to measure the total effectiveness of all OD, learning and development programs.
• Monitor and report training data and statistics.
• Ensure all professional development, consultation and/or other procedures are in conformity with current standards of scientific or professional knowledge.
• Act as a Change Ambassador driving the business-specific change management, processes and interventions.
• Collaborate with external Consultants and vendors as needed to support organisational development initiatives.