Human Resource Business Partner at Workforce Group

Workforce Group is a Management Consulting and Outsourcing Professional Services Firm. Following its inception in July 2004, Workforce Management Centre Limited (Workforce) has built an enviable reputation as the leading indigenous management and professional services consulting firm in Nigeria. Drawing from its Deep Domain Expertise, in the area of organizational effectiveness and employee performance, the Company is positioned to assist businesses across diverse sectors of the economy in their quest to create sustainable value for their stakeholders.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Human Resource Business Partner

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Purpose of the Job

• To ensure strict implementation of company Human Resource policies and provide the right mix of human resource and support services for company operations at the location.

Key Accountabilities
Industrial Relations:

• Achieve industrial peace and harmony in the location to ensure uninterrupted flow of goods and services
• Ensure compliance with labour laws
• Organize union/management meetings to address stress point
• Manage formal communication channels to ensure that grievances are nipped in the bud.
• Manage disciplinary process to ensure consistency and fairness
• Counsel and handle employee grievances
• Identify potential industrial relations flash points and take pre-emptive action

Manning Levels:

• Contribute to maintaining optimal manning levels in the brewery to check the incidence of over staffing and inefficient allocation of resources.
• Propose in liaison with other departmental Managers, optimal manning levels for the location
• Organize the recruitment, selection and induction of right mix of employees
• Arrange, transfer and deployment of employee as agreed
• Initiate and agree job descriptions/evaluation
• Monitor and control employment of casuals
• Discipline, appraise and motivate staff in HR department

Health Safety and Welfare:

• Provide and maintain efficient welfare health and safety services for employees to meet the company’s goal of being employer of first choice
• Provide quality meals at optimal cost
• Monitor and control provision of health care services
• Provide and maintain suitable cloakroom and laundry facilities/services
• Provide and encourage use of recreational facilities like the Management Bar, Games Room, Football Club, etc.
• Provide quality safety wears/uniforms
• Organize and provide learning activities on health, safety and environment
• Participate in Health, Safety & Environmental Committee activities
• Share in the enforcement of use of safety wears/uniforms

Performance Management:

• Provide performance and Career Management Guidance for management decisions to ensure that corporate expectations and personal goals are in alignment
• Agree work plans with subordinates
• Initiate and coordinate annual appraisal exercise in the brewery
• Facilitate consistency checks for management appraisals in the location
• Analyze and Communicate training needs for non-management employees
• Facilitate and implement performance management decisions.

Compensation Management:

• Conduct wages and benefits administration in the location consistent with company policy and statutory provisions.
• Determine salary for new intakes
• Implement annual merit increases
• Implement collective bargaining agreements on salaries and fringe benefits
• Process loans, advances, bonuses, terminal benefits etc
• Administer free company product issues
• Ensure that all statutory registrations are carried out (National Housing Fund, National Social Insurance and Trust Fund,the company's Pension Fund)
• Facilitate PAYE Income Tax Returns

Guest House Management:

• Administer company guesthouses effectively and efficiently so that third party facilities are considered as a last resort
• Ensure company chalets are always in good condition
• Provide cost effective catering and laundry services for guests
• Ensure guests pay for services rendered and ensure budget discipline

Pool Vehicle Administration:

• Administer company’s pool of service vehicles in an effective and efficient manner
• Ensure pool has full complement of vehicles
• Ensure vehicles are always in good serviceable state
• Provide for use of internal customers
• Ensure vehicles are replaced when due and returns made to Head
• Office for disposal of boarded vehicles.

Management Responsibility:

• Control departmental budget to ensure that services are provided within approved resources
• Prepare and defend departmental budget for clinic, canteen and other services
• Attend monthly accounts meetings to discuss expenses/variances
• Propose, defend and implement CEM/REM items
• Provide and maintain internal communication

Contract Staff Administration:

• Oversee contract staff administration in the location so that the recruitment and selection of third-party employees meet company expectations
• Participate in the recruitment and selection of contract staff
• Monitor and enforce compliance with company policy on contract staff recruitment, general welfare and administration.

Communication and General Services:

• Provide internal and external communication and other services for the location to enhance information flow, quality of decision taking and general well – being of the location.
• Provide inter-brewery and overseas courier service
• Manage radio communication
• Provide receptionist and internal messenger services
• Manage telecommunication and postal services
• Manage the central photocopy and duplicating facilities in the location
• Arrange prompt sale and evacuation of scrapped sundry items.

Requirements

• Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of Second Class Upper. A second class lower must possess a Masters degree or equivalent
• Field of Education: Business or Social Sciences
• Experience: 6 Years

Behaviours Competencies:
African Management (Core) competencies.

• Integrity
• Flexibility
• Applied Learning
• Management Empathy
• Numerical Literacy
• Functional Competencies
• Effective Communication
• Relationship Building
• Organizational Skills
• Leadership Qualities
• Teamwork.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.