Design and execute strategic planning to achieve business objectives such as Employee Engagement Programs, Cultural Transformations, Talent Engagement, and cost reduction strategies. Spearheads all employee life cycle processes from design to execution and analysis process success such as talent sourcing, recruitment, onboarding, retention, succession and performance management.Oversee budget management by implementing checks and balances with regard to headcount, labour scheduling and staffing processes. Formulate, review and implement a sustainable employee learning & development plan to support business growth and company objectives whilst ensuring all the benefits are gained by both employee and employer. Manage all IR-related matters from creating disciplinary policies and procedures to assisting with change management and labour strategies to CCMA representation during conciliation and arbitration.

Develop and execute annual HR business strategy for 2 factory units through effective cross-functional communication with an average growth rate of 12.5 %.Budget Management by coordinating continuous improvement plans whiles maintaining a 60% operating cost.Talent Management by implementing retention strategies, building a 2 -level deep bench and coaching and mentoring session for leaders.Implemented People Planning and Succession Planning sessions as part of our leadership growth and talent mapping strategy.Executed cost reduction and change management strategies such as the implementation of a 12 hours shift system at the factory level in order to reduce overtime by 47%.Successfully executed a multi-union factory including wage negotiations, CCMA representation, verification process, double jeopardy and joint matter cases at arbitration level with no operational interruptions. Develop and implement a Reward and Recognition to support production improvements and increase staff morale.Designed and implemented a capability development program to support sourcing and recruitment processes. Change and Transformation Management by managing the Employment Equity Plan and Workplace Skills plan, ensuring legal compliance through delegated recordkeeping process and running of committees.

Successfully managed a factory restructuring and Labour Broker changeover of 450 unionized factory staff members without a stop in production and or drop in efficiency through effective cross-functional communication, adaptability and change management.Successful execution of continuous improvement plans such as organizational structure harmonization and optimization with role profiling, shit model optimization and role alignment to facilitate process improvement and cost reduction strategies. Successfully managed an HR improvement project focusing on headcount management by drafting and designing processes to control staff manning levels at factory level. Successfully implemented controls to support cost reduction strategy by implementing a new biometric clock-in system to support our cost correction and health and safety strategy. Implemented a relationship-building and people leadership strategy to address the union-management relationship through coordinating relationship-by-objective workshops.Facilitated the performance management process through objective setting training and process management to ensure complete and accurate execution of the performance management strategy. Designed, developed and implemented capability-building strategies to ensure upskilling of current staff and talent attraction from factory level up to leadership. Facilitated Employment Equity strategies to ensure compliance to plan and correction to potential barriers. Executed talent strategies through bench building, staff retention and succession planning to support skills shortages and operational requirements.