People & Culture Manager

SUMMARY:
We are looking for a People & Culture Manager to join our team.

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with managers to understand workforce needs and develop proactive talent strategies to achieve those.
• Provide thought leadership on organisational design, workforce planning, and future skills requirements.
• Support transformation programmes and ensure measurable progress against KPIs.
• Guide objective setting, mid-and-performance appraisal processes and implementing performance improvement initiatives where needed.
• Ensure training and development plans are aligned with long-term organisational capability needs and support the roll-out of development programmes.
• Implement workforce and succession plans, talent and pipeline development strategies ensuring equitable access to development and clear career paths.
• Lead workforce planning processes to ensure optimal resource allocation.
• Forecast future workforce demand, identify supply risks and capability gaps.
• Deliver recruitment strategies, ensuring alignment with employment equity and transformation objectives
• Drive and embed a positive employee relations culture, ensuring proactive resolution of workplace issues.
• Act as an expert advisor on complex ER matters, providing guidance on case law and policy interpretation's collaborative and 
• Work with managers and employees to prevent risks from escalating, manage and resolve issues and grievances timely.
• Support initiatives to strengthen organisational culture, including staff surveys, engagement programmes and recognition strategies.
• Ensure compliance with labour legislation, employment equity. BBBEE and organisational policies and process.
• Identify and report on risks and implement mitigation strategies.
• Present workforce analytics and insights enabling data-driven decision-making.

• Postgraduate degree in Human Resources, Industrial Psychology, or related field.
• 8 years HR generalist experience, with at least 5 years at Manager level.

• Proven track record in matrixed, dual-governance, or multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience in large-scale projects, research institutions, or technical/engineering sectors.
• Skilled at managing complex employee relations matters.