[Hiring] People and Culture Manager @National Health Group (Pty) Ltd

Role Description

The People and Culture (P&C) Manager is responsible for building and managing NHG's end-to-end people function and ensuring that the organization has the people, structures, policies, performance systems and culture required to support its next phase of growth.

This is a hands-on leadership role. The successful candidate will operate as both a trusted adviser to the CEO and management team and the person accountable for the day-to-day execution of the P&C function.

The role encompasses the complete employee lifecycle, including:

• Workforce planning
• Recruitment
• Onboarding
• Probation
• Performance management
• Employee relations
• Learning and development
• Remuneration
• P&C administration
• Policy governance
• Employee engagement
• Offboarding

The P&C Manager will play an important role in developing NHG into a high-performance, accountable and people-focused organization while ensuring compliance with South African employment legislation.

Qualifications

• Relevant Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Human Resources, Industrial Psychology, Labor Relations, Business Management or a related field
• Minimum 5 years' broad P&C generalist experience
• At least 2 years in a P&C Manager, P&C Business Partner or similar role
• Strong practical knowledge of South African labor legislation
• Demonstrable experience managing:
  • Disciplinary and grievance processes
  • Poor performance and incapacity
  • Recruitment and onboarding
  • Probation
  • Performance management
  • P&C policies and administration
• Strong communication, judgement and organisational skills
• Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of a complete P&C function
• Strong Microsoft 365 skills

Requirements

• Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services or another regulated environment (advantageous)
• Experience in an SME, scale-up or entrepreneurial organization (advantageous)
• CCMA experience (advantageous)
• P&CIS or P&C process automation experience (advantageous)
• SABPP registration or professional membership (advantageous)

Benefits

• Opportunity to build and shape the People & Culture function of a growing healthcare organisation rather than simply inherit an established corporate P&C system
• NHG is building a scalable, technology-enabled primary healthcare platform focused on improving access to affordable private healthcare for South Africa's working population