Olam Agri is a market-leading, differentiated food, feed, and fiber agri-business with a global origination footprint, processing capabilities, and deep understanding of market needs built over 33 years. With a strong presence in high-growth emerging markets and products across grains & oilseeds, animal feed & protein, rice, edible oils, specialty grains & seeds, cotton, wood products, rubber and commodity financial services.
Olam Agri is at the heart of global food and agri-trade flows with more than 40 million MT in volume traded annually. Focused on transforming food, feed and fiber for a more sustainable future, it aims at creating value for customers, enabling farming communities to prosper sustainably, and strive for a food-secure future.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: HR Business Partner
Location: Apapa(Wheat), Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- The HR Business Partner will serve as a strategic advisor to Manufacturing, Technical and Supply Chain leadership teams, driving HR initiatives that strengthen organizational capability, enhance talent quality, and support high‑performance culture across plant and field operations.
- role ensures seamless execution of people processes, workforce planning, capability development, and HR compliance within the manufacturing ecosystem, by effectively partnering with the various COE’s.
Responsibilities
Strategic HR Business Partnering:
- Act as a trusted advisor to MATS leadership, providing data-driven insights to influence people decisions and organizational effectiveness.
- Partner with business units to understand operational priorities and translate them into HR interventions that improve productivity and workforce engagement.
- Drive workforce planning, succession planning, and capability-building strategies aligned with business growth.
Talent Acquisition & Workforce Deployment:
- Partner with the TA team to attract, assess, and onboard high-quality technical, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain talent.
- Ensure staffing for plants, mills, factories, warehouses, and field operations is aligned with business timelines and manpower budgets.
- Support graduate trainee intake and deployment across technical and manufacturing functions.
Performance & Capability Development:
- Drive the annual performance management cycle, ensuring fairness, quality of evaluations, and leadership accountability.
- Identify skill gaps and coordinate functional capability development programs for plant managers, shift supervisors, engineers, quality teams, and supply chain staff.
- Support leadership development pipelines for critical MATS roles.
HR Operations & Process Excellence:
- Partner with Plant HR/IR Managers to deliver end‑to‑end people processes including onboarding, confirmations, transfers, exits, HR documentation, and payroll inputs.
- Partner with C&B team to ensure data accuracy and timely updates on HR systems (e.g., SuccessFactors, HRIS).
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to simplify HR processes across manufacturing locations.
Culture, Engagement & Change Management:
- Partner with L&D to champion company values and drive culture-building initiatives across plants, warehouses, and field operations.
- Lead engagement activities, pulse surveys, and action planning to improve employee morale and retention.
- Support change management for organizational transformation, restructuring, or process redesign initiatives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree from reputed university/ specialization in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Business Administration or related field is an advantage, through not mandatory. Certification from institutes such as CIPM, SHRM, HRCI is an advantage
- 10–12 years progressive HR experience, with at least 6 years partnering with manufacturing/technical/supply chain operations.
- Proven experience in talent planning, capability development, and improving employee experience in a high‑performance, fast-paced environment.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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