Senior HR Business Partner, Commercial & Marketing Needed at Guinness Nigeria Plc

Guinness Nigeria PLC is a key market within the Diageo portfolio, operating in the dynamic and expanding Nigerian alcohol industry, which boasts a potential of over 15 million hectoliters of beer consumption. As the only company offering a comprehensive range of Total Beverage Alcohol (TBA) products in Nigeria, we cater to both the traditional on-trade and the rapidly growing off-trade channels.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior HR Business Partner, Commercial & Marketing

Job Requisition ID: JR1103526
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time
Grade Level: L4
Worker Type: Regular
Reports to: HR Director

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

Requirements

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.

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2024.