Lead: Leadership and People Development (CPT / JHB / Centurion)

Lead: Leadership and People Development (CPT / JHB / Centurion)

Date: 31 Oct 2024

Location: Sandton, Gauteng, ZA

Who are we?

Sanlam Corporate forms part of the Sanlam Group which offers retail and corporate life insurance, health and investment products in South Africa. Our vision is to be the preferred partner to Corporate and Public Sector by providing an awesome client experience and comprehensive solutions that enable the financial resilience and prosperity of those entities and their employees. We tap into over 100 years of expertise to provide cost-effective Employee Benefits and Healthcare Solutions that enable financial confidence for our members. We enable our clients to make better retirement and risk decisions today through determined and passionate thought leadership and best-in-class people, innovative products and proven processes all designed to help people live a better life tomorrow.

We believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives every individual the opportunity to achieve success by embracing diversity and growing our talent.

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth.

What will you do?

This role will be responsible for providing strategic direction and thought leadership on best-in-class people development practices that define learning culture and architecture within Sanlam Corporate, in the context of the diverse needs of multiple stakeholders. To build human capital across Sanlam Corporate through the digitisation of learning and skills transformation for critical, technical skills acquisition and embed future-fit and ethical leadership competence. To support the achievement of the business strategy by reviewing Business Unit plans for delivery of alignment of people development processes, systems and solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership and drive policy implementation around all aspects of People Development.
• Lead and drive the digitisation of learning aligned to the Human Capital Strategy.
• Embed ethical behaviours and future fit leadership competencies to promote an ethical and inclusive culture.
• Conduct a skills capability mapping process per prioritised BU’s and identify the reskilling, upskilling, and/or enablement requirements for employees.
• Redesign our executive leadership programme and build industry thought leadership.
• Design an integration and assimilation programme for new leaders.
• Design and implement a technical skills academy to enable upskilling and reskilling of employees for sustainable business performance.
• Facilitate the development of FSC skills development targets and ensure that delivery of the L&D strategy contributes to achievement of the targets. Monitor and support the ongoing achievement of the FSC scorecard and transformation initiatives.
• Business engagement in reviewing the BU-specific strategy to identify needs and align strategic priorities for learning and development.
• Identification of future skills needs for Sanlam Corporate and the Employee Benefits industry and ensuring relevant solution design and digital learning delivery.
• Position the learning and development function in Sanlam Corporate as a world-class learning organisation that applies industry leading practice.
• At a strategic level, direct and co-ordinate L&D activities across the organisation in partnership with relevant department heads to ensure that L&D strategic objectives and outputs are being met in a cost effective and sustainable manner.
• Forge relationships with Sanlam Group, the business and key learning partners, including, but not limited to government institutions learning solutions providers (e.g. business schools) and industry professional associations.

Qualification and Experience

Relevant Post Graduate Degree in Human Resources/Organisational Psychology
8 – 10 years experience in the following areas:
• Demonstrated success in developing, building and delivering on a corporate L&D strategy.
• Integrating, aligning and executing strategy.
• Developing a stakeholder management grid for the business.
• Developing resource plans to execute functional strategies.
• Identify opportunities to improve the learning experience to Sanlam Corporate.
• Support the executing of major organisational changes through workforce reskilling programs.
• Design and implement learning and leadership development frameworks.

Knowledge and Skills

• Proven leadership and senior management skills
• Identifying automation opportunities to create efficiencies and mitigate risk.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across product houses, customer relationships and core operations to enable exceptional client experience.
• Strategy planning and execution
• Business Acumen
• Learning and development methodologies
• Influencer/change agent: Paint a clear picture for changes in strategies and/or organisational model
• Finance and accounting acumen
• Lead from a position of strong emphasis on controls and ability to set the tone in a high control culture orientated environment

Core Competencies

• Cultivates Innovation by creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful.
• Client Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Resilience - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
• Organisational Savvy – Manoeuvring comfortably through complex policy, process and people related organizational dynamics.
• Manages Complexity – Making sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Drives Engagement – Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organisation achieve its objectives.
• Business Insight – Applying knowledge of the business and marketplace to advance the organisation’s goals.

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.