Human Resources Manager at Dentsu Aegis Network

Job description

Are you passionate about helping young people realise their potential? Are you an innovative and creative individual with amazing HR skills? Do you enjoy working in an environment with a lot of room for growth? Dentsu Aegis Network is hiring!

Detailed Responsibilities

• Staff Development
  • Work closely with the company managing directors to identify staff training needs and monitor professional development activities.
  • Use assessment techniques, observation and interview methodologies to establish individual coaching action plans
  • Work with staff members to make improvements to their action plans
  • Maintain employee benefits programs, study and assess benefit needs and trends. This includes obtaining and evaluating benefit contract bids, awarding benefit contracts as well as designing and conducting educational programs on benefit programs.
• Building a Community
  • Demonstrate DAN’s corporate values in human resource management process. This includes job design, recruitment, organizational structure, performance management, training & development, talent management, and salary/ benefit services.
  • Responsible for the administration, organization, and coordination of DAN Kenya’s performance management programs to ensure employee understanding of performance measures, job expectations, clarity of goals and objectives and performance results.
  • Maintain staff by establishing and leading a recruiting, testing, and interviewing program. This includes counselling managers on candidate selection, conducting and analysing exit interviews as well as recommending changes
• Leadership and Support
  • Play a lead role in designing, executing and measuring the effectiveness of global, local and third-party talent training programs. This will include identifying issues, forming hypotheses and synthesizing conclusions into recommendations.
  • Support the leadership team to identify business challenges and use data analysis to help influence changes to the operations, process or programs.
  • Develop and implement HR strategies and initiatives aligned with the overall business strategy and growth objectives.

Desired Candidate Profile

Does This Sound Like You?

• At least 2-6 Years of experience in HR or Training
• Certified by IHRM
• Thorough and up to date knowledge of Kenyan employment legislation
• Excellent communication, diplomatic and organizational skills
• Enjoys working with young people
• Tact and the ability to deal with difficult situations
• The ability to work under pressure and with personnel from all levels
• Good budgeting and IT skills
• Some knowledge of marketing or advertising
• Liberal minded person
• An interest in executive coaching and training within the workplace
• Interest in personal development coaching
• Startup experience is a plus