Head of HR - West Africa at Upfield

Your Main Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of the HR strategy and translate business goals into operating plans.
• Deliver short-medium term talent plans which prioritize identifying, attracting and selecting people who can create competitive advantage.
• Develop and Utilize strong business understanding to create new insight to influence business unit decisions.
• Lead and influence organizational change across all business units through designing, developing and leading implementation of short-medium term HR solutions.
• Collaborate with business leaders to develop and implement OD plans.
• Design jobs and organization structures to deliver objectives in the short and long term; ensuring structural change increases productivity and effectiveness.
• Work with leaders to ensure people possess the skills, capabilities and experiences to fulfill business needs through continuous learning.
• Create a positive Employee Relations climate in the organization to drive employee motivation and performance
• Build a performance culture which rewards critical skills, competencies and delivery
• Manage complex service delivery issues in conjunction with service delivery leaders.
• Work closely and effectively with cross-border HRBP’s, HR Services and expertise teams to identify best practice and use it to define effective business interventions.
• Take Financial and Budgetary responsibility for HR to achieve savings in people costs through resource optimization and productivity improvements.

About you!

Minimum requirement:

• University Graduate
• Strong knowledge of key HR processes, roles and responsibilities
• Ideally a successful track record of working in Markets & Global roles
• Experience of embedding significant organization change
• Passion for building talent and teams
• Possess standard leadership behaviors: Growth Mind-set, Consumer & Customer Focus, Bias for action, Accountability & Responsibility.