Senior People Manager at The People Practice

Our client is looking to hire a Strategic Senior People Manager who will be in charge of developing and implementing strategies for attracting, retaining, motivating, and managing talented individuals who contribute to the organization’s success. Developing policies and practices designed to ensure fairness in employment relations. The Senior People Manager must perform day-to-day activities to achieve company goals and meet key performance indicators (KPIs).  

Responsibilities

• Resource-based Strategy: Focusing on enhancing the strategic capabilities of the company. Lead and facilitate the recruitment and staffing process in accordance with organizational guidelines, best practices, and budgetary guidelines.
• High Commitment Management: Establishing better commitment between managers and their employees.
• Achieving Strategic Fit: Integration of workforce and material resources through a streamlined and high ROI oriented operational model.
• High Involvement Management: Empowering and treating employees as stakeholders.
• High-Performance Management: Enhancing company performance through superior productivity, growth, and profitability rate of the workforce.
• HR Strategy and organizational culture: Work with the team to create an HR strategy and build an organizational culture that aligns with the company’s objectives. Create strategies that enhance staff development, engagement, and career progression.
• On-boarding Develop and implement a comprehensive on-boarding process for employees during their first month of employment, and for the management and support of employees during their probation period; and throughout the entire employee life cycle.
• Compensation and reward: Work with the Finance team to ensure that the company’s compensation systems and goalposts are periodically reviewed and enhanced to ensure motivation, retention, and attraction of employees.
• Improving performance: Develop and spearhead a growth-focused appraisal process, including conducting mid- and/or end-of-year reviews.
• Training and Staff Development: Provide strategic focus in the creation of training and staff development initiatives.
• People Operations: Performs routine tasks required to administer and execute human resource programs including but not limited to compensation, benefits, and leave; disciplinary matters; disputes and investigations; performance and talent management; productivity, recognition, and morale; occupational health and safety; and training and development. Handles employment-related inquiries from applicants, employees, and supervisors, referring complex and/or sensitive matters to the appropriate staff.
• Maintaining compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in Strategic People Management.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• CIPM, SPHRi, SHRM or other similar certifications is required
• Experience working at a top tech company, consulting company and/or start-up, and have quickly assumed responsibilities related to People/Recruiting/Professional Development
• Deep understanding of HR requirements in Nigeria - international experience is a plus
• Experience in developing and implementing HR and People programs that address and solve business problems and directly contribute to major long-term business objectives.
• Ability to break complex problems into smaller ones and enjoy working with data to facilitate your work using tools such as SQL and Excel
• Ability to make a good business case and convince people to help you execute large-scale projects
• Familiarity with employee management systems such as Bento or SeamlessHR is a plus
• Knowledge of Google product suite - working knowledge of Airtable is a plus
• Thorough knowledge of labour-related laws and regulations.
• Proficiency with HRIS and Talent management systems.