Job Title: Senior HR Business Partner, Commercial & Marketing
Job Type: Full Time
Grade Level: L4
Reports to: HR Director
About us
Guinness Nigeria is the only Total Beverage Alcohol company in Nigeria with a wide portfolio of brands catering to non-alcohol and alcohol drinkers, some of our well-known brands include Malta Guinness, Orijin Bitters, Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, Mr. Dowell's, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Baileys, and Cîroc Vodka.
Our guiding purpose is to "Celebrate life every day, everywhere" which permeates everything we do.
Our brands were innovated by people who played their part as builders delving deep beyond their jobs and doing much more - real people with vision, zeal and beliefs.
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About the team
We are the home of iconic alcohol brands, and the hugely dedicated people who make them what they are. These brands were crafted centuries ago by business minded visionaries and philanthropists and, today, we're proud to be the torchbearers of continuing innovation. In, HR, we strive to be an agile, connected and accountable partner, providing a platform for high performance and impressive growth. Creating a working environment that allows our pioneering, global organisation to achieve the mission of celebrating life every day, everywhere, means that our people can succeed in an environment that includes, inspires and supports. Human Resources is at the heart of our global business, and we have departments across many of our offices around the world, with HR service centres in Budapest, Nairobi, Manila and Bengaluru. Collectively these teams provide the widest variety of expertise to the business: from strategic delivery and skills development to talent engagement and careers development, process and systems management to interpersonal effectiveness and reward management. As one of our HR professionals, you'll see there are open doors for you everywhere here. With opportunities to shape the career you want, through continuing learning and development, and the support of hard-working peers.
About the role
Our performance ambition calls for us to create the best performing most trusted and respected consumer products company in the world; this requires us to guarantee our plans with the right people and capabilities.
The Senior HRBP will lead and run the end-to- end People/HR agenda within a business area, reporting into the HR Director.
Guinness Nigeria has a population size of 800+ people (excluding 1500 third party Contractors).
Role Responsibilities
- Customer engagement: Ability to build strong reliable relationships/partnerships across the functions, HR Global & Shared Services Teams
- Solid ability to balance employer and employee advocacy.
- Excellent numerical ability: the spontaneous ability to connect (read or sense) with data with ease, and use same to make quick and sound judgement.
- Strong analytical skills: Ability to analyse and use systems & data to understand people, trends & issues to ensure we have the talent to meet business needs.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Effective role model and ambassador of the Company's values and ways of working
- A continuous improvement & growth mind-set, constantly asking what needs to happen to bring transparency, simplicity & agility.
- Transparency on the talent agenda & how diversity throughout the organisation will deliver the outcomes
- Strong coach for line managers on people related matters
- Self-starter who commits to high performance with a servant leadership mentality
- Ability to achieve demanding goals to a high standard
Strategy
- Understands the entire business operations thoroughly and on this basis, guides and supports the business leader on the implementation of the People Strategy within the overall business strategy, and on all people policy issues within current and anticipated regulatory/statutory requirements.
- Ensures legal compliance on people issues.
Engagement
- Work with the Demand business leaders to develop/maintain high levels of engagement. Hold the team to account for delivering super engagement goals by linking and underpinning everything with Diageo's values.
Talent Management
- Owns and deploys the Multi Year Talent Plan (or elements of it depending on business/function)
- Ensures succession plans are in place for the function/business unit.
- Develop & implement clear plans to retain and attract talent.
- Responsible for Workforce planning & forecasting for functions covered.
Leadership
- Acts as a Breakthrough performance coach to business leaders. Role models outstanding coaching and communication skills consistently.
Employee Relations
- Participate in Employee Conduct investigations. Advises employees and management staff on the interpretation of HR policies, programs and procedures, and ensures legal compliance thereof.
- Collaborate on investigations & actions. Responsible for connecting & supporting appropriate employee groups & representatives.
Organisation Effectiveness, Culture and Leadership
- Fully embeds the change programmes & delivers the OD metrics.
- Leads headcount & overheads within Company targets & blueprint numbers.
- Implements tools and practices to ensure the productive development of the business way of working through our Surveys, and acts on the results and insights.
Resourcing/Learning & Development
- Create and implement robust Onboarding programmes for new staff, enabling them to optimise their productivity in the shortest time possible.
- Works with the Line Managers to create individual development plans place that are fully aligned to our current and future performance needs, which will help to close performance gaps and deliver Succession Plans.
Reward and Analytics
- Own reward agenda end to end, knows the market reward environment and intervenes, builds and challenges as appropriate
- Improve impact of reward strategies across Sales and Marketing teams for both contract and permanent employees
- Partners with Reward and Shared Services to deliver the annual reward cycle
Employee Relations
- Conducts interviews and investigations on ER issues (HR related), complaints, and grievances, connecting with First Point (Operations Team) to ensure proper case management and record keeping.
Financial Management
- Lead, influence & review the total overhead budget for the business/function and the non-staff related costs. Assess the costs against business targets & budget
Employee Relations
- Conducts interviews and investigations on ER issues (HR related), complaints, and grievances, connecting with First Point (Operations Team) to ensure proper case management and record keeping.
Financial Management
- Lead, influence & review the total overhead budget for the business/function and the non-staff related costs. Assess the costs against business targets & budget
Experience / skills required:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- HR Certification is desirable
- At least 12 years experience in the field of Human Resources
- Validated ability in Human Resources, 4 of which must have been at senior management level.
- Proven success in a senior Business Partner role
- Ability to influence, persuade, facilitate, and build credibility at all levels within the business.
- Organisational effectiveness including building high performing teams and employee engagement.
- Proven understanding of Nigerian Labour Law
- Good grasp of recent National Industrial Court decisions
- Good grasp of HR trends
- Sufficient commercial insight and experience preferably in an FMCG or Sales environment
- Operational knowledge of all elements of the talent management cycle.
- Excellent numerical acuity: the spontaneous ability to connect (read or sense) with data with ease and use same to make quick and sound judgement.
- Strong analytical skills: Ability to analyse and use systems, metrics & data to enhance decision support to the business leaders.
- understand people and interpersonal trends & issues to ensure we have the talent to meet business needs
- Strong use of HR metrics and data analytics to support the business
- Understanding of the local and international labour markets.
- Solid knowledge of HR systems existing in the market.
- Confirmed versatility/agility in moving across HR functionalities.
- Excellent coaching and relationship building skills.
- Has a thing for people and puts people at the heart of the business.
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.