HR Partner (Fixed Term – 1 year) at Bayer

Role purpose

• This job supports and enables the organization to achieve our mission by providing efficient HR support, ensuring professional implementation and application of HR Policies.
• The role holder will work closely with other HR Partners and the HR Operations team in the resolution of HR issues to ensure sound HR service delivery.

Key Kesponsibilities and Tasks

• Support the talent acquisition process ensuring the required inputs from the functions and RPO partner for timely delivery on recruitment needs in all worker categories.
• Organization management, maintaining position descriptions and evaluations on SAP to ensure data accuracy.
• Ensures the implementation and application of agreed upon Bayer HR directives, policies, processes, systems and programmes and strives for best practices in the standardisation, harmonisation and alignment of local HR activities, but always with the business requirements in mind.
• Provides effective local Talent Management (TM) initiatives in line with the global Bayer Group TM strategy to attract, identify, develop and retain the right employees and to maintain a powerful talent pipeline.
• Provides support and guidance to the relevant local management enabling them to contribute to the talent management agenda including participation in the Bayer Talent Review process with the Country Leadership Team (CLT).  
• Provides support and guidance to the relevant local management in terms of appropriate organizational transformation i.t.o. local legislation (EEA, SDA, BBBEE) and global directives.
• Proactively work with the global and regional HR Partners and ensures continuous communication and sharing of information on all important HR topics with them, notably aspects of Talent Management.
• Manage assigned Labour Relations issues for resolution and in close collaboration with the Head of HR and LPC contact.
• Training of employees on assigned topics as defined within HR or as agreed within the HRP commune and with the businesses supported.
• Support and guide the business on people related topics eg in transformation, discipline management, relocation management amongst others.
• Executes effective organizational structure review in liaison with functional leads and manage implementation of the same.
• Manage employee separations as required based on the nature of the separation
• Collaborate with the Head of HR SEA on HR topics including exchange of all relevant topics to the function and escalation of issues that require management and awareness beyond the jobholder
• Ensure documentation of all required policies and processes in line with Bayer standards
• Creating & maintain positions, org units etc through Org Management in SAP.

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• At least 5 year’s experience in Human Resources at middle and senior management level in a multinational organisation
• Minimum BCom in Human Resources or similar. An Honours degree is advantageous
• Certified HR professional
• Experience with Employment Equity management and Labour Law certifications will be an added advantage
• Coaching skills
• Experienced in multidisciplinary HR areas
• Knowledge of SAP is required
• Relationships and networking
• Organizational (Planning skills)
• Reliability + Disciplined
• Manage challenges and handle work pressure well