Working at Grant Thornton as People and Culture Manager will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference by helping to fully leverage the skills and talents of all our people. You will focus on helping in driving the Firm’s people strategy, creating a unique people experience, and supporting our Firm wide values by working with the core competencies that measure, drive individual, and Firm wide success in the marketplace. .

Job Responsibilities:
• People experience: delivering the experience to make Grant Thornton place people love to work.
• Talent management: managing the firm’s talent to ensure maximum productivity
• Board representation: a representative of the people agenda at the Board
• Culture alignment: assessing and driving the firm to a high performance culture.
• Communication: main communication channel from leadership to employees and vice versa.
• Strategic leadership: spearhead the firm’s strategy, develops, implements and monitors the HR Strategy and monitors the entire firm’s strategy implementation
• Employment laws compliance: knowledgeable of employment law and ensures compliance to all labour laws
• People analytics: analyzing HR information/data to make sound decisions. Developing monthly reports on human capital matters
• Workforce planning: identifying and analyzing all human capital needs of the firm and aligning them to the recruitment plan
• Measurement: carrying our employee engagement surveys annually.
• Leadership development: developing all Directors and Partners to ensure attainment of the firm’s objectives.
• Recruitment & selection: delivering a candidate experience while ensuring timely selection of quality candidates.
• Orientation: delivering a warm welcome to the new hires while deeply embedding the firm’s values
• Training and development: carrying out the firm’s training needs analysis and ensuring training opportunities for all, completely monitoring the ROI and effectiveness of training. Focus on both technical and soft skills.
• HR Audits: leading annual HR Audits to ensure compliance and relevance of HR policies and employment Act
• Performance management: managing performance
• Discipline management: setting up and managing the employee discipline process in line with Kenya Employment Act
• Employee relations: responding to employee queries.
• Compensation & Benefits: overseeing all company benefits administration, carrying out compensation surveys to ensure competitiveness in remuneration.
• Employee separation: leading the separation process while ensuring the brand is maintained and protected while monitoring staff turnover and developing retention strategies.
• Exit management: managing the exit of employees both voluntary and involuntary
• Alumni relations: maintaining relations with alumni
KPIs
• Deliver a people experience across the firm.
• Creation of a good working environment.
• Effective recruitment in both quality and time factors.
• Prompt response to employee needs/requests.
• Creation of performance driven culture
• Effective workforce planning.
• Alignment of P&C to the overall strategy.
• Cost effectiveness in line with human capital.
• Staff retention
• Realization of growth in employees through unlocking their potential.

In this position, you need to have:
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management or Social Sciences.
• Professional certification is highly desirable
• Master’s Degree in a relevant field will be an added advantage
• At least 5 years of mid-senior management experience in an HR lead role.
• Previous team experience and knowledge of team dynamics desirable.
• Remains productive when under pressure.
• Demonstrates a systematic and efficient approach to work.
• Works collaboratively with team members to achieve results.
• Relates and works well with people of different cultures, gender and backgrounds.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Flexibility and prepared to work additional hours
• Prepared to seek advice and guidance from People and Culture lead and other HR Colleagues.
• Good time management skills and flexibility to continuously re-prioritize
• Ability to multi-task
• Willingness to take both initiative and direction;
• Ability to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for all staff members;
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team;
• Able to respond rapidly to changing environments, yet remain productive and focused;
• Strong and fast computer skills (primarily Word, Excel, and Power Point);

Job Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree

Job Experience Requirements: 5 years

How to Apply

If you fit the description, please send your CV to the following email address: lynette.musyimi@ke.gt.com