HR Manager at Atkins

Principal Accountabilities

General

• Provide comprehensive HR services to the businesses and engender an East Africa identity.
• Drive the HR and People agenda for effective resource and business planning for both territories.
• Influence for results as an active member of the African Senior Leadership Team
• Develop and implement a Learning and Development programme, including the delivery of innovative L&D solutions.
• Travel regularly and frequently as needed to various locations in Africa to ensure HR service is delivered to meet business needs.
• Work closely with business heads to convert plans to actions and deliver to meet needs
• Actively engage with Line Managers and staff to influence behaviours and facilitate organisation change
• Proactively manage employee relations issues to enhance the employer/employee relationship
• Develop and manage HR budgets as appropriate
• Manage and contribute to regional, African and global HR projects as required.
• Actively manage and coach the East African HR team members

Relationships

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key business stakeholders in order to understand business issues and priorities.
• Develop effective working relationships with the sector Finance Directors/Controllers so as to understand the financial and commercial issues of the business.
• Establish a reputation for being credible, reliable and for getting things done.
• Develop effective working relationships with colleagues in central and regional HR functions as necessary including the International Mobility Team, Reward Consultants and L&D Consultants.
• Benchmark with peer group HR professionals in the region to keep abreast with current practices.
• Develop and manage relationships with supply chain partners as appropriate to gain maximum value from such relationships.

Requirements

• A Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline.
• Advanced standing and Professional Membership of an appropriate HR Institution
• Demonstrable progressive HR experience at senior level in a complex professional services environment
• Proven experience and expertise in implementing HR Systems and processes.
• Experience working in a multi-cultural environment.
• Able to manage the complexity of delivering to meet business needs and doing so within the East African HR Policy framework.
• Experience in planning, managing and successfully delivering on a large change project involving numerous stakeholders.
• Grounded commercial understanding of how the business works
• Personal style and magnetism enabling influence when communicating, presenting and writing.
• Independent and confident and able to challenge with credibility.
• Discrete and trusted when offering advice.
• MEA experience will be beneficial as would successful experience working in a multi-cultural environments.

You will need to:

• Be resilient and able to adapt to the fast rate of change.
• Be open to others and to uncertainty
• Maintain an engaging leadership style
• Assert independent views and challenge when appropriate.
• Work for the overall good of the Company (rather than through silo thinking)
• Encourage and influence the behaviours of others to adopt a collaborative style