BAT is recruiting for a HR Executive, Marketing.

The ideal candidate should be a graduate of any discipline with relevant Human Resources management experience.

He/she will have the ability to skilfully engage and influence at all levels; Excellent communication skills; Excellent interpersonal skills and a detailed knowledge of labour law and the labour custom and practice is fundamental.

HR Executive, Marketing – Reporting to the HR Business Partner.

Principal Accountabilities:

* Proactively review existing HR policies and procedures to ensure they are always relevant to current needs; educate line management/employees on these for them to properly understand their objectives and relevance to them and the Company; and ensure they are implemented accordingly.
* Carry out manpower planning to ensure ready availability of talent to fill roles (both from within and outside the Company) with minimum downtime.
* Run/participate in interviews and assessment/development centres and determines assessment and selection tools to ensure effective recruitment and selection.
* Participate in ensuring all employees fully understand their roles and have/see a clear line-of-sight.
* Act as a professional advisor to employee/management on people issues.
* Participate in ensuring grievance and disciplinary procedures and practices are fair and transparent and are carried out accordingly through an active participation.
* Participate in ensuring our remuneration policies, procedures and practices are applied equitably.
* Provide guidance to Line Management to take the development of their teams as top priority.
* Provide guidance to line Management in ensuring the development is driven by properly developed, reviewed and implemented development plans.
* Provide guidance to line Management in ensuring that the work ethic within Marketing is driven by the Guiding Principles.
* Encourage line management to use robust communication as a vehicle to build trust, openness and understanding within and across their teams.
* Participate in ensuring line management embraces a culture of learning that proactively encourages sharing knowledge, experience etc within and across teams in order to build possible successors.
* Participate in ensuring team is efficient and effective in carrying out day-to-day administrative responsibilities.
* Provide guidance in ensuring an effective allocation of resources to deliver on priorities.
* Provide team with feedback on their performance on regular formal/informal bases.
* Monitor the performance of the factory clinic and ensure it is run effectively.
* Support employees/line management to understand how BAT performance management system works and that line management carries out performance appraisals effectively.
* Participate and facilitate TRMs, ensure feedback is provided and TRM decisions are followed through.
* Identify and develop excellent working relationships with key stakeholders both internally and externally (E.g. Labour authorities), to ensure we are at no time in violation of any rules or regulations as it relates to our people.
* Ensure HR excellence by being in touch with HR best practice in the BAT world and among comparator companies.
* To exemplify BATN as an employer of choice.
* Develop & implement people-focused initiatives that would increase motivation and enhance performance.
* Encourage innovativeness in employees and assist line managers to encourage such.

Deadline is 18th September 2009.

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