Senior Manager, People at Red Media Africa

Red Media Africa (RED) is Africa's leading omni-media company with a focus on youth. It holds a network of premium media companies built across media tools and platforms. The three divisions - content, communication and development - are run through three companies that are registered and managed independently.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Manager, Building Nigeria's Greatest Place to Work (People)

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Will be working in a dynamic and fast growing media company populated by under-35s who are highly talented and passionate. The company is 70-man strong and growing and is broken down into 3 distinct businesses dealing with all aspects of media - TV, radio, print online, advertising etc at same time.
• The Senior Manager, People with primary focus on Talent, he or she will ensure successful track record of building an organizational culture of consistently using data to improve training programs, performance and hiring, and experience in leading, conducting and reporting on training and performance activities.
• Manage every aspect of the group and ensure that goals are met and objectives are realized across board with primary focus on talent
• Optimize the operations, administration and people of the company and enable profit maximization.
• Understand link between learning and talent, competency and performance management, and demonstrate ability to make connections between learning activities and competency gaps.
• Confer with managers, supervisors and employees to gain knowledge of work situations where training is identified as a possible solution.
• Assist departments in establishing training solutions, when a training need is identified.
• Collect, monitor and evaluate program data to determine ROI, effectiveness, relevance and quality of materials and content.
• Ensure that both long-term, strategic and short-term, tactical learning needs are met.
• Demonstrates expertise in developing and implementing multiple training evaluation processes.
• Coach and/or counsel employees in developing career/personal development plans.
• Work with various vendors/business partners to select, develop and deliver courseware content.
• Relieve the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of administrative decision making as well as day to day management so CEO can focus on Innovation, Strategy and Growth.
• Others responsibility as assigned by management.

Requirements

• Highly experienced and able to bring structure, process, and highly developed systems into a creative and largely unstructured environment, Preferably someone with experience in such environments already.
• Have flair! You actively promote creativity, innovation, flexibility and rapid growth across all sections of the business.
• The capacity to grow and nurture superstars ensuring discipline while at the same time maintaining our culture of joy.
• A person with a depth of understanding on how to manage and optimize talent and people, and grow them rapidly and sustainably.

Remuneration
Pension Scheme I Mandatory annual leave I Annual retreats I Employee bonus programme I Flexible hours for mothers I Health insurance.

Application Closing Date
4th June, 2015.

Method of Application
Interested candidates should send their CV's, with position of interest as the subject of mail and a 250-word piece on 'Why we should hire you' to: [email protected]