Head, Human Resources at a Leading Retail Fashion Company – TalentSquare Full Time

Job Title: Head, Human Resources

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Description

• As the Head of Human Resources, you will be responsible for building, establishing, and leading our global HR agenda.
• The main goal is to support transforming the business into a contemporary high-performance team in order to reach company goals.
• Operating on a global level, the growing HR team is specialized in several impact areas covering the entire employee life cycle – from Employer Branding, Aligning HR to business strategies, workplace compliance, administration & Payroll to Talent Management.

Responsibilities

• Develop overall corporate HR strategies and policies
• Engage and partner with unit leaders and the board to identify business challenges and opportunities, and create HR solutions
• Partners with Leadership Team by providing human resources advice, counsel, and decisions.
• Oversee all HR initiatives, systems, and processes
• Coach and Consult Business leaders on HR agendas and provide HR guidance
• Manages HR operations financial strategies by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements and costs
• Evaluate talent needs, and oversee recruitment strategies and succession planning initiatives
• Ensure regulatory compliance across the organisation in accordance with local legislation
• Guides the organisation through research, development, and updating of policies.
• Updates HR and industry knowledge by participating in conferences and networking opportunities.

Qualifications

• 8 – 10 years of relevant professional experience in the field of Human Resources & Talent management experience. Ideally, you would have led a team.
• Experience reporting to a board.
• You have (co-)developed and successfully implemented HR strategy or strategy elements; you know what “great” looks like. You have “hands-on” approach and are not scared of getting things done yourself and through the team. You see end-to-end picture and execute it.
• You can connect with your stakeholders, and you are recognized as a solid HR counterpart both for your functional HR knowledge, and for your ability to translate business needs into HR plans and actions.
• You can ruthlessly prioritize people- and organization-driven tasks using analytical and data-driven approach in argumentation, measuring HR goals and KPIs to support data-based decision making
• You possess sound knowledge of the nigerian labour law & experience in the impact areas of HR/Organizational development
• You have hands-on attitude, and you are thriving from getting things executed. You are execution-focused business enabler as well as strategic advisor to executives/ managers.
• You work with the focus to impact rather than just solve problems, showing empathy with a high degree of integrity, strong communication skills and service orientation
• You are structured, independent, proactive, and creative mindset to contribute to our international HR Team in setting up all employees for Success.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Great stakeholder management abilities

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.