Senior Human Resources Business Partner in a Multi-national Company

Pivotage Consulting – Our client, a multi-national company, specializing in alternative energy, particularly the design, financing and distribution of solar-powered home energy products with celebrated brand leadership in emerging markets (Africa & Asia) as its product serves an estimated 53 million people across 35 countries; is looking to hire a highly resourceful and performance-oriented candidates to fill the position below for its Nigerian Operations:

Job Title: Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Ref: AHRM/1001/GPSK
Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Type: Full Time.
Job Category: Expert / Top Level.
Reports to: Global Head of Human Resources

Summary/Objective

• The Senior Human Resources Business Partner’s role primarily entails understanding the business objectives, provide and support appropriate HR programs, strategies and processes across recruitments, performance management, employee engagement, talent management, learning and development and employee relations.

Job Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of HR business partnership experience.
• Experience in independently partnering with leadership.
• Ability to thrive in an unstructured, multi-cultural environment and work independently.
• Critical thinker with success in developing innovative solutions to business issues.
• Strong communication skills to ensure information flows both upward and downward.

Job Competencies:

• Strong team player.
• Excellent Interviewing Skills, Professionalism, Ability to work in Team and result-driven approach.
• Experienced and skilled in creating and organizing presentations and reporting for executive audience.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills with attention to detail.
• Strong organizational and time management skills to stay on top of time-sensitive projects and urgent requests, requiring a high level of flexibility and ability to execute quickly.
• Thinks ahead, minimizing potential problems. Proactive in identifying areas to improve.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Takes initiative to learn new systems and stay current in area of expertise.

Job Responsibilities

• Understanding specific business requirements associated with growth in West Africa, and translating these into talent/capability requirements.
• Institutionalizing a rigorous hiring process aligned with technical and behavioral competencies.
• Working with individuals, managers, and functional leaders to ensure fair performance reviews, including goal setting, self-assessment, manager assessment completion, and targeted action planning.
• Partnering with the functional leaders to track and improve critical people metrics such as employee engagement and retention.
• Planning and executing talent management initiatives in partnership with the functional leader, including identifying high potential employees, promoting the right people into the right roles and supporting their skill development to perform effectively in these roles
• Building greater efficiency into the adherence to and practice of people processes by minimizing pain points or delays experienced by functional teams.
• Coaching people managers on employer brand as regards specific activities such as managing poor performance and exits.
• Be an objective voice in investigations and disciplinary procedures, contributing ethical, legal and organizational perspectives to the process.
• Driving greater awareness and understanding across all levels on opportunities, benefits, and people processes to continue to foster a fair and inclusive work environment.
• Note: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Deadline: 16th May, 2020.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@pivotageconsulting.com using the Job Title (Senior Human Resources Business Partner) as the subject of your application (Please ensure CVs are in MS Word format only).