Company Background:

The organisation is a manufacturer and distributor of industrial products and is the sub-Saharan African subsidiary of a major multi-national group employing in excess of 2 000 people.

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Managing Director, the Human Resources Director will be a strategic business partner to executive and line management with particular emphasis on:

• Defining the future needs of the organisation based on the company’s vision and strategies
• Organisational transformation
• Union negotiations

Key Attributes Required:

• Graduate with a Human Resources focus ideally combined with a commercial qualification
• Ideally best practice and sophisticated human resource process and  management experience in a large or multi-national company environment
• Useful to have operated in a manufacturing environment
• Essential to have a good knowledge of Labour Law, CCMA processes
• Generalist Human Resource management experience together with commercial skills
• Experience of dealing and negotiating with trade unions