Flexible location – based in either South Africa, Nigeria or Ghana

About You

Business Strategy

• Craft Sub-saharan Transformation agenda to enable business performance

Talent Management

• Lead talent management strategy for Sub-saharan Africa i.e. buy, borrow or build talent pipelines
• Facilitate talent & performance calibration sessions in Sub-saharan Africa
• Deploy innovative strategies to promote the employee value proposition

Learning

• Lead Sub-saharan capability programmes by skilling, reskilling and aniticipating future learning needs based on medium to long term growth plans

Organisational design

• Manage fixed costs in line with business strategy
• Review country org models in line with business strategy, processes/tools, systems, capabilities and internal benchmarks

Culture

• Create and implement strategies to promote a positive, collaborative company culture in line with Danone Values, behaviours and People Survey Results.

People & Teams

• Lead a team of 7 professionals

Requirements And Qualifications

• Completed HR Related Degree
• 10+ years of experience in a similar role, preferably overseeing Talent, Learning, Culture and Organisation design in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Lead with right values i.e. humanism, openness, proximity and enthusiasm
• Put Danone First – We act and work as one team, across countries and functions
• Lead with People – We grow as leaders by developing others
• We keep it simple – We deal with complexity by bringing focus and a pragmatic approach
• Be Accountable – We are decisive and fact based
• Walk the Talk – We do what we say, acting as role models

About us

For more information about Danone, our culture, please explore careers.danone.com.

We offer

A job which could easily turn in to a career in Danone. We believe everyone is born with superpowers, something which comes natural to you. We know this uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energy, so we believe in all Danoner’s potential and when we build careers based on these superpowers and when we develop everyone’s potential to the fullest magic happens. This is how we like to see Talent Management in Danone.

This is a highly visible position within Danone; you will interact with Internal – Marketing, Sales Supply chain, SSD and External – Suppliers, CO-packers. Challenge, innovate , convince and find alignment when needed. This role has no direct reports.