Sanlam was established as a life insurance company in South Africa but has since transformed into a diversified financial services group that operates across the African continent, India, Malaysia and selected developed markets, with listings on the Johannesburg, A2X and Namibian stock exchanges. In 2018 the Group celebrated its centenary as well as 20 years since demutualisation and listing in South Africa and Namibia. Sanlam is one of the largest internationally active insurance groups in the world with a presence in 43 countries and has the biggest non-banking financial services footprint on the African continent.
The Group's four business clusters (Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets and Santam) house the Group's business operations. The Group Office provides strategic direction and support to the four clusters, assisting them in realising their strategies and meeting their business objectives. The Group Office is responsible for governance and for the Group's centralised functions, which include: Finance, Actuarial and Risk Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Market Development and Sustainability.
What will you do?
Works with the leadership team of defined business area and the Group Human Capital team to implement the Group Human Capital strategy, to ensure that the business executes on their people agenda. Key to the success of the role is the ability to develop strategic partnerships with the leadership teams within assigned portfolios. This comes from understanding the businesss key strategic challenges and providing HC interventions to help the leaders achieve their goals and create a positive and productive workplace.
What will make you successful in this role?
Supports leadership team on people issues
- Aligns business requirements and effective HC practices to deliver people solutions.
- Influences leadership around people agenda and issues
- Analyse HC data and interpret ito trends and suggestions for decision making
- Builds leadership competence through coaching and guides line management around people processes
- Implements talent management framework (including succession management)
- Identifies the immediate and long-term talent issues that impact the area and put appropriate plans in place to address
- Ensures the retention of high performing and high potential employees through the proper management of learning and development opportunities, mentoring, coaching and reward
- Supports the business with the recruitment and placement of talent.
- Identify critical and scarce skills for business unit and agree strategies with all relevant COEs (e.g. Talent acquisition, L&D & Total Rewards) to ensure appropriate pipelines over short and longer term
- Ensures that values and leadership standards are communicated and understood at all levels in business area
- Helps the business area to establish and maintain high levels of employee engagement through people solutions
- Identifies projects and HR initiatives in line with business area needs
- Partner with key stakeholders within business area to ensure that all HC projects are appropriately communicated
- Co-ordinates project integration initiatives into annual plan
- Provides high level people management advice, guidance, support
- Advises and educate on HC policies and procedures
- Implements all people processes and practices and ensure that they are legally compliant and fairly applied
- Acts as first line of contact for any employee relations issues ensuring all risks are managed within the framework of best practice and all relevant legislation
- Supports, develops and coaches line managers to manage employee relations issues
- Supports the annual salary review process
- Works with the line managers to distribute salary budget aligned with talent strategy and fair remuneration practices
- Helps implement, develop and facilitate a learning environment
- Identifies learning and development needs and contracts with CoE to design and deliver
- Support and manages the delivery of learning and development solutions and programs from the CoE
- Support business in developing their EE plan (including numerical targets and AA actions)
- Facilitate the alignment of business strategy and EE plan
- Ensure execution of all initiatives in line with the BU EE Plan
Qualification And Experience
Degree or Diploma with 8 to 10 years related experience or qualified by extensive experience.
Knowledge And Skills
Strategic Planning
Drives transformation and change organisational design and development
Risk and Governance Management
Leading others and resource management
Personal Attributes
Organisational savvy - Contributing through others
Decision quality - Contributing through others
Drives engagement - Contributing through others
Business insight - Contributing through others
Build a successful career with us
Were all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
Customer focus - Contributing through others
Drives results - Contributing through others
Collaborates - Contributing through others
Being resilient - Contributing through others
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
The closing date for applications is 23 December 2023
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
