Job Description

Company Description

At Publicis Groupe Africa Talent - we "find, grow, and keep our Talent" - we aim to bring the world's most innovative people together and provide the infrastructure and culture to help them thrive. The Talent Team are at the core of the employee experience for our people, be it to attract, recruit, develop and progress our talent. This is at the forefront of our mission, as we build our business with future-focus. The Talent structure has been designed to allow specialists to deliver key services that make for a successful proposition. This consists of; HR Partnering, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, HR Operations, Employee Value Proposition (EVP), Transformation (BEE and CSI), and Employee Relations (IR). You will contribute to the talent management of a cluster within Publicis Groupe Africa.



ROLE PURPOSE

The Talent Team

At Publicis Groupe Africa Talent - we "find, grow, and keep our Talent" - we aim to bring the world's most innovative people together and provide the infrastructure and culture to help them thrive. The Talent Team are at the core of the employee experience for our people, be it to attract, recruit, develop and progress our talent. This is at the forefront of our mission, as we build our business with future-focus. The Talent structure has been designed to allow specialists to deliver key services that make for a successful proposition. This consists of; HR Partnering, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, HR Operations, Employee Value Proposition (EVP), Transformation (BEE and CSI), and Employee Relations (IR). You will contribute to the talent management of a cluster within Publicis Groupe Africa.

Key Talent Priorities: * Create an impactful talent structure to better serve the future of work strategy

• Harmonise systems that will drive operational efficiency (Career Settings, MPC, Smart Recruiter, WIP, Marcel etc.)
• Facilitate the rollout of a variable remuneration model
• Create a go-to market employee value proposition to attract the best in market Talent
• Support the business leads in effectively moving to a fluid workforce plan
• Cultivate a performance and feedback culture across the Groupe
• Proactively build pools of equity top talent of the future
• Implement a fair approach to succession planning that supports the progression of top talent
• Create an impactful learning offering to upskill in leadership, client, team and financial management
• Repackage reward incentives to motivate a new generation of employees

The Role

The Mid - Senior HR Partner is an advocate of Publicis Groupe Africa's culture and values, collaborating with our business leaders and the general employee population to help them build their organisation's and make sure all people decisions are based on business and people understanding, empathy and data. You will work closely with the mentioned talent team verticals, to deliver best-in-class support to the business. You will be the day-to-day consultants on organisational effectiveness initiatives and drive Publicis Groupe's values and beliefs. You will be responsible for all agencies and employees within Publicis Commerce.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

RESPONSIBILITIES

KPI's & DELIVERABLES

BUSINESS PARTNERING

• Implement value added solutions across our Employee Experience that align with the business objectives
• Support the Talent Managers with people and business insights that informs and builds expertise in: career planning, performance management, data analysis, compensation and rewards, employee relations, learning and development, recognition programs, and strategic development.
• Identify trends in both qualitative and quantitative data to help improve our employee experience
• Consult with leaders & managers to execute our integrated talent strategy & influence lasting change
• Contribute to building a positive reputation and meaningful relationship between the Talent team and the business
• Represent the voice of the employer, with empathy of the employee
• Have a true understanding of the business from a macro and micro level to truly deliver based on agency nuances
• Be proactive in driving positive employee engagement
• Positive anacdotal feedback on the Talent team from the busissness
• All employees completed MPC appraisals
• Employee Handbook
• Employee engagement survey
• Fair and market-aligned salary increases

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

• Contribute to ensuring that the HRIS is accurate and up-to-date
• Ensure your cluster have a full understanding of legal compliance, policies and procedures that all employees must comply to within Publicis Groupe
• Develop & delivery training
• Look to mitigate IR investigations by ensuring the business leads understand implications to actions towards employees
• Status reports - updated weekly
• Overseeing work flow & delivery of the employee experience - from Join/ Perform/ Learn / Transform & Exit
• Up-to-date Organsiational charts
• HRIS reporting
• Updated HR processes
• Talent updates to the business

EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE

Collaborate with the specialist talent verticals to plan & drive successful employee experience events & initiatives, accountable for the process from ideation to execution. Including, but not limited to a project planning, internal communication, event management, content management & post event analysis & feedback

Join

• Approvals: Obtain an approval on the GHT for any new / replacement positions
• Recruit: oversee the recruitment for hires within your cluster, with leaders and talent acquisition team. Understand the brief, role & competitors for recruited roles.

• Induction & on-boarding: Smooth & hassle free transition from CV to contract (candidate experience throughout lifecycle). Plan and drive all new hires employee immersion in agency inductions and on-boarding

Perform

• Ensure smooth rollout of talent performance tools such as MPC for all employees & assist in the upload of goals
• Manage reviews bi-annually for Managing Partners & leaders - to cascade into teams
• Guide Leaders on building consistent & regular performance management into their leadership practice.

Learn

• Provide learning & development team with insight into training needs and skills/knowledge gaps within your agencies
• Support the learning and development team in driving a learning culture and enrollments/completion of Marcel Classes courses

Transform

• Provide necsessary information to transformation team and contribute to the awarding of BEE points
• Foster conversations around inclusion and diversity to improve the working environment for all employees (especially those feeling excluded)
• Handle IR concerns in a professional, and confidentail manner

Exit

• Conduct exit interviews
• Provide talent team and business with exit interview trends & insight
• Ensure terminations are effectively complete by working with HR Ops and Re:sources

• Positive onboarding experience
• Satisfied hiring managers
• Talent dashboard reporting
• Updated HR processes
• Talent updates to the business
• Line manager training on performance management
• HR masterclasses
• L&D masterclass
• Recruitment masterclass
• Exit Interview survey
• Core competancies set
• Updated policies comunicated

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