Talent and Performance Management Specialist at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• Under the direction of Talent and Performance Lead, this role is ultimately responsible to drive high performance culture and shift the talent mindset in the organisation with the ability to mine data for drive business decisions. The role will be responsible to equip all people leaders with the skills, materials and knowledge to manage their team’s performance. It will partner with the HRBPs in setting clear performance management principles and guidelines across the business, holding all people leaders accountable  and ensuring there is  a smooth deliver of the year-end review process in both Talent and Performance. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Drive high performance culture in the organisation 
• Built capability for all people leaders and HRBPs to drive high performance culture across the organisation 
• Work with Employment Law to ensure there is a clear poor performance process and guidelines to manage poor performance across the organisation 
• Set up clear talent review process, templates, and guidelines to enable talent review process across all levels in the organisation 
• Drive the integration of all talent systems used in the organisation and ensure there once central data point for talent data in the organisation 
• Capability building across all people leader levels -including newly promoted people leaders
• Liase with Vodafone and plan for capability building whenever there is framework or system changes 
• Ensure all people leaders (including newly promoted) are trained on both performance framework, and relevant systems 
• Work with HRBPs in holding people leaders accountable in managing people according to Vodacom’s standard and policy guidelines 
• Plan, communicate and deliver a smooth year-end review process for both Talent and Performance
• Track and report on all performance and talent metrics during critical deliverables  
• Work with HRBPs to drive a culture of continuous conversation in ensuring that People Leaders are having performance conversations throughout the year  
• Ensure outcomes of Talent reviews are integrated into talent management plans  

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Degree and or Diploma and 3+years relevant HR work experience (essential) 
• Intermediate to advance Excel skills are essential. 
• Analytics and insights experience 

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Skilled at working with numerical data, spotting patterns and trends and using this to inform action taking
• Strong experience in driving high performance culture and producing high performance teams   
• Comfortable with innovation, experimentation and applying learnings to programme development and implementation.
• Knowledge of the full employee lifecycle, and behavioural development through people processes to support employee engagement.  
• Effective written communication and presentation skills.
• Able to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to activate spirit. Proven ability to influence and build relationships at all levels
• Project management experience with a track record of timeous delivery 
• Facilitation/training experience-including presentation skills.

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies