Employee Relations Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - AVI Limited

AVI Limited
AVI Limited
Verified Company
Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

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AVI Ltd.
is known for its leading household brands across many categories including:

hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.


NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.


The incumbent will need to have experience functioning at a Senior level within the industrial relations and broader employee relations space and should have strong leadership and interpersonal skills in order to engage with a wide range of stakeholders across the full range of human resource functions.


Duties & Responsibilities

Strategy & Engagement:

  • Introduce and facilitate communication systems within NBL on employee relations related issues and practices
  • Assist with planning, mandating and strategizing for negotiations for different bargaining forums
  • Lead negotiations and other management worker forums
  • Draft and interpret recognition, substantive and collective agreements
  • Monitor legislative changes and maintain practices inclusive of code and offences guideline in line with current legislation and case law updates

Business partnering:

  • Advise and consult on employee relations issues to management offering professional advice and facilitates access to external advisors and labour lawyers as required
  • Enable and improve line capacity and effectiveness in employee relations
  • Identify and implement appropriate standardization and improvement opportunities across operations
  • Inform and advise operating units as required in terms of trends and legislation
  • Participate in restructuring planning sessions to provide IR support and lead and facilitate S189 processes across the business as and when required
  • Participate in the planning and execution of business projects that may impact employee relations

Industrial Relations & Performance Management:

  • Lead initiatives to building sound relationships with unions
  • Represent the company in complex hearings at the CCMA (or other similar dispute resolution forums)
  • Represent operations and participate actively in annual wage negotiations, general consultations and negotiations with the union and bargaining unit, dealing with all industrial action related matters, and establishing, maintaining and attending employee forums
  • Build industrial and employee relations capability at operational level to ensure HR teams and Managers are well equipped to effectively manage all industrial and employee relations matters
  • Ensure full HR/IR compliance with all labour related (and other relevant) legislation
  • Stay abreast of HR market trends, relevant HR/IR legislation and events in appropriate industry and statutory bodies and advise management on HR/IR legislative and compliance matters
  • Assist management to comply with corporate norms relating to all internal procedures on grievance and disciplinary enquiries
  • Ensure that all operating managers have the relevant employee relations manuals, tools, forms, reports, etc. and use these consistently and appropriately

Experience:

years' experience in a manufacturing environment (in highly unionised environment)

  • Employee Relations Experience, with wide exposure on CCMA processes (CCMA Commissioner Training and experience will be and added advantage)

Qualifications:


  • Relevant qualification is essential
  • Registration as an Attorney would be advantageous

Knowledge:


  • Extensive knowledge of HR Practices
  • Specialist Industrial Relations knowledge
  • Expert understanding of all HR/IR related legislation is essential (e.g. Basic Conditions of Employment, Labour relations, Skills Development, BBBEE, South African Qualifications Authority)
  • Abreast of HR market trends, relevant HR legislation and events in appropriate industry and statutory bodies
  • Conflict/Relationship Management skills
  • Exposure to a unionised environment is an essential requirement with experience in a manufacturing / heavy industry environment advantageous

Competencies:


  • Problem solving
  • Written and verbal communication
  • Planning and organising
  • Establishing and maintaining key relationships
  • Influencing others
  • Upholding standards and ethics
  • Remaining composed and resilient
  • Being flexible and open to change
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