HR Business Partner Job Opportunities – Coca-Cola Beverages Africa

Job Title:  HR Business Partner

Organisation: Coca-Cola Beverages Africa

Duty Station: Mbarara, Uganda

Reports to: HR Manager – Supply Chain

 

About US:

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa is the largest African Coca-Cola Bottler, accounting for 40% of all Coca-Cola volumes on the continent. In Uganda, CCBA is represented by Century Bottling Company Limited and Rwenzori Bottling Company Limited.

 

Job Summary:  As an HR Business Partner, you will report directly to the HR Manager – Supply Chain. The incumbent serves as strategic HR partner in the Mbarara plant, enabling achievement of the business plan and targets, aligned to the Organisation’s overall strategic objective of long-term growth.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Business & HR Alignment (Strategic Management)

• Serves as a proactive member of the ‘functional country’ leadership team/s, participating in the management of the business.
• Drives the understanding of people and organizational implications of the business strategy and goals across the plant leadership team/s, and in so doing positively influences the business agenda.
• Focuses on strategic activities, and evaluates HR service and value delivered to the Plant leadership team/s.
• Works with plant leaders to translate business needs into clearly articulated and actionable organization and people requirements.
• Focuses Plant leaders on high-leverage use of HR processes throughout the year.
• Monitors Plant performance through the agreement and ongoing use of a people/organization scorecard.

Learning and Development

• Facilitates the execution of the L&D strategy within the organization.
• Diagnoses & facilitates the building of people and organization capability required to execute the business strategy.
• Implements capability frameworks and plans within the organization that facilitates building the organization’s capabilities, thereby enabling the organization to deliver on strategy.
• Adopts L&D solutions, and deploys appropriately within the organization.
• Actively facilitates the building of deep skills in key roles across the organization.

Talent Management

• Drives effective sourcing and development of leadership and ensures effective management of the talent pipeline, to meet short, medium, and long-term requirements.
• Drives the execution of the Talent strategy in the organization, in line with the HR Manager and local business strategy.

Performance Management

• Drives performance by leveraging the organization’s Performance Management system.
• Enables a high-performance, high-engagement culture in the organization.
• Drives and facilitates achievement of the diversity agenda within the organization.
• Drive holistic wellness, which includes physical and emotional well-being, in the workplace through dedicated social systems, tracking and monitoring mechanisms, and employee awareness and education.

Organisation Development

• Works collaboratively with the business leaders to co-create a plan to shape the desired culture, through coordinated OD initiatives and touch points with other areas of HR (TM, Reward).
• Facilitates the adoption within the organization of CCBA methodologies for organizational design and change management.
• Initiates leads and sustains organization change initiatives, and ensures smooth transformation and anchoring.

Employee Relations

• Fosters an employee relations environment that supports the delivery of strategy, and ensures communication directly with shop floor employees.

Reward

• Ensures effective implementation of the CCBU Reward strategy within the plant in line with HR business strategy.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree, with postgraduate HR qualification, or equivalent.
• Added advantage: Master’s degree in HR Management/Business Management/Industrial Psychology.
• At least five years of HR leadership experience in both operational and corporate environments – both generalist and specialist.
• At least five years of people management experience.

 

Competencies

• Business acumen, to drive organization performance.
• Ability to influence and engage key stakeholders across different levels.
• Ability to develop clear actionable steps to support business strategy.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to analyze & diagnose.
• Integrity, and the ability to build trust.
• Reputation for discretion and sound judgment.
• Technical process expertise.
• Ability to collaborate, and work effectively in Teams.
• Inclusiveness and ability to work with diverse backgrounds
• Ability to generate ideas, agree on direction, influence, and plan actions through productive relationships with groups and individuals.
• Excellent Problem-solving ability.
• Change management and performance improvement.
• Ability to develop strong, professional relationships with internal customers, through integrity and delivery.
• Credible, trustworthy, and able to recommend solutions that are aligned with customer needs and the long-term interest of the organization.
• Ability to facilitate team discussions and shape positive behaviors.

 

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below.

 

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Deadline: 28^th April 2023