Nigeria Senior HR Business Partner at Engie Africa

Job Purpose/Mission

The holder of this position will be part of the Human Resources team that is based in Lagos, Nigeria, led by the Head of Human Resources. The Senior HR Business Partner provides consulting and coaching to departmental leaders and managers in order to support the business’s vision, mission, and overall objective. They also play a major role in the management of varied projects throughout the business, actively participating in project teams, and implementing HR initiatives while simultaneously ensuring proper communication and collaboration within business departments and with other HR business partners.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Management and Organizational Development 

• Provide day-to-day advice and support to business leaders and middle managers on a variety of team and employee topics, including team dynamics, recruitment, learning & development, and employee relations.  
• Recruitment- Identify recruitment needs and design effective selection and retention programmes. Also lead or participate actively in recruitment campaigns; job fairs; community activation programs; general networking; etc. to ensure a robust candidate pipeline. 
• Change Management- Assist in/contribute to the design and deployment of all organizational change projects through process design and approaches that support change and transformation
• Evaluate and measure the impact of talent solutions and programs. Also identify issues, patterns and trends & provide insights to continuously improve business performance.
• Learning and development- Participate in the planning and implementation of learning and development strategy of the organization in line with business objectives 
• Onboarding- Lead the process of candidate selection; interviewing; job offer; background check, onboarding and integration/induction of new employee and act as custodian for our HRIS platform 
• Performance Management- Serve as the primary custodian of our performance management system. This includes training team members and getting them familiar with performance management best practice, pooling periodic reports to track progress, raising tickets and helping resolve technical issues and maintaining an accurate database of employees

Employee Compensation and Benefits 

• Benefits- Support in implementing and maintaining group life, medical scheme and requirements of workmen compensation act as stipulated within regulatory framework 
• Payroll- Provide required input for Payroll management on a monthly basis

HR Analytics and Reports 

• HR Metrics- Ensure the integrity of HR data, support decision making by providing workforce trends and analysis 
• Processes- Support in continual review of our way of doing things, HR processes and workflows to ensure, we retain great employee experience and business efficiency

Employee Services and Administration 

• Record Management- Ensure effective employee record management and adherence to data privacy laws 
• Health & Safety-Assist in the implementation of Administrative processes including workplace health and safety programmes to reduce exposure to workplace hazards, and support the review and enforcement of effective HR policies, procedures and programmes for HR service delivery.

Internal Communications

Work closely with the Marketing team to develop and execute EEA's internal communications strategy. There will be a need to organise engaging events and share aesthetically pleasing content which promote our core values, foster inclusion and position EEA as a great place to work.