People Business Partner

Description Zutari is a multinational buildings, infrastructure engineering and advisory firm with over 90 years of experience across Africa and the Middle East. We partner with clients across the full infrastructure lifecycle, delivering digitally driven solutions that shape schools, stadiums, dams, bridges, and the systems that connect them.

We are enablers of progress, transforming ambition into impact and infrastructure into opportunity. Every role in Zutari contributes to building sustainable futures that extend far beyond the projects themselves.

Role Responsibilities

• Managing and supporting the alignment of Zutari’s people strategy with business strategy.
• Working together with management and employees to solve conflicts and help facilitate positive employee relations, maintain a good working environment, build morale, and decrease unwanted attrition.
• Help business markets become future-ready by focusing on the existing workforce in the market and prepare them for the future.
• Reskilling and upskilling by identifying training needs and assist the LearnX team in aligning training programs with business objectives.
• Strategic workforce planning to ensure the markets workforce has the right size, shape, cost, and agility for the future.
• Succession planning by selecting and develop key talent to ensure there are talents to fill in critical roles.
• Provide guidance on the creation and implementation of people processes and policies.
• Provide performance management guidance to line managers (for example mentoring, career planning, coaching, etc.)
• Reviewing and optimising (where necessary) the market’s organisational design to increase productivity and improve performance of the business.
• Collaborating with people team members on implementing innovative and inclusive attraction and retention strategies.
• Assisting in developing a future-proof compensation and benefits plan for market aligned with wider business remuneration policies and procedures.
• Implementing reward and recognition interventions to support and drive high-performance and employee engagement.
• Provide advice and suggestions for culture-related activities / initiatives, such as embedding of codes and behaviours.
• Implement people interventions on employee wellness, diversity and inclusion, or retention activities.
• Performance management by having the ability to track relevant metrics and goals to drive business results.

Minimum Requirements

• Degree or diploma in relevant People / HR field
• Minimum of at least 6 or more years’ experience in Human Resources Management, or as a People Business Partner preferable within a professional or consulting services environment.
• Working knowledge of different human resource disciplines, including compensation practices, organisational structuring, employee relations, CCMA experience, diversity, performance management and basic project management.
• Lead and / or manage specific HR projects and programmes
• Must have strong ability to build relationship at various levels within the firm.
• Excellent knowledge of S.A Labour law.
• Business acumen in understanding finance principles, risk and reward, and business outcomes.
• Great communication and presentation and problem-solving skills.

We believe that a diverse workforce is key to our business success. We seek the best people for our jobs based on their skills, qualifications, and experience. We embrace the principle of equal opportunity in employment, and we work towards eliminating all forms of unlawful discrimination in our employment practices. In support of diversity and the equal opportunity principle, preference will be given to individuals from designated groups within South Africa.