Job Description

Job Overview

Business Segment:

Group Functions

Location:

ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 30 Baker Street

Job Type:

Full-time

Job Ref ID:

80441466A-0002

Date Posted:

6/5/2025







Designs and governs SBG Benefits & Recognition (B&R) solutions and services to achieve broader talent objectives and contribute to a compelling Employee Value Proposition to drive employee engagement, business growth, commerciality and competitive positioning. Delivers to business outcomes across divergent product and geography needs and the P&C value chain to achieve strategic relevance of B&R as a talent lever. Innovates and measures value of B&R solutions, data and governance across SBG.



Qualifications



Minimum qualifications

Minimum of a NQF 7 Degree



Experience required

More than 10 years extensive understanding of the entire People & Culture Value Chain, specifically the role of Benefits & Recognition as a lever to realise talent strategies, business objectives (commerciality) and reputational relevance.

Demonstrated experience of working in a multinational company with senior leadership teams in the enablement of complicated people programmes.

Comprehensive knowledge and experience of how data and digital tactics can be applied to optimise the employee experience, solutioning and reporting.

Demonstrated experience in developing people and or organisational transformation programs with a particular focus on multi-geography and multi-Business Units in the workplace.

Demonstrated track record in multi-geography solution design and optimisation methodologies across people practices to better enable business objectives and employee experience is required.

Evidence of having fostered a network of internal and external stakeholders with a demonstrated ability to build constructive relationships. Experience in influencing leaders and peers on the applicability of benefit and recognition frameworks and solutions.

Experience leading initiatives within/across complex environments and geographies, motivating and coaching individuals and developing a culture of continuous development and personal improvement.

Continuously innovate and improve the SBG B&R solutions, services, tactics, challenging existing practices and aligning with desired business outcomes and the talent agenda. Analyse insights into the local experience with B&R solutions, service and tactics, distill patterns and put in place actions for improvement that will include modelling alternative solutions and making mistakes (where variables are too long-term to be reliably predicted).

Support new Benefits & Recognition requirements by reviewing industry/market long-term trends and diagnostics, conduct due diligence to assist with the identification of new opportunities for continuous improvement and the sustainability of CoE solutioning.

Provide expert input to the review of material B&R changes/ amendments across the SBG footprint and this includes the management of change across the value chain and other P&C value chain partners.



Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

Articulating Information

Challenging Ideas

Convincing People

Developing Expertise

Embracing Change

Exploring Possibilities

Generating Ideas

Inviting Feedback

Making Decisions

Providing Insights

Team Working

Upholding Standards

Technical Competencies:

Business Acumen (P&C)

Coaching and Mentoring Operational Practices

Collaboration

Consulting Agility

Continuous Improvement

Data Quality

HCM Business Systems

Organisational Awareness

P&C Process Improvement

Resource & Capacity Optimization

Solution Delivery

Solution Design

Strategic Alignment & Execution

Strategic Business Relationship Management

Strategic Planning and Reporting

Strategy Definition

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