Junior Specialist: Talent - Absa Bank

We are looking for a customer-orientated individual with strong collaborating and influencing capabilities to join our People Function Talent team and be responsible for creating talent interventions to support a performance-based culture, employee engagement, competency development and drive successful end-to-end execution of business Talent Management strategies; and to embed Absa’s target talent management experience in the business.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Talent Management Experience And Thought Leadership

• Support the development of a robust business talent management strategy
• Drive the embedding of Absa’s target talent management experience in business across the employee lifecycle including onboarding, development, retention, engagement, off-boarding and alumni management.
• Facilitate talent data MI reporting, analysis and insights generation to facilitate data-driven talent management planning and decision making

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including business leaders, talent acquisition and management leads, industry networks, sector forums and talent management solution providers
• Partner effectively with business and Group Talent Acquisition and Management teams to facilitate internal mobility

Talent Management Operations, Agency and third party management

• Manage the relevant talent management budget, operations and services in line with Absa policies and standards
• In consultation with the Head of talent management, effectively engage and manage external PSL, monitoring partners against SLAs, escalate success and failures through the appropriate channels and contribute to the maintenance of a quality Preferred Suppliers List.

Onboarding

• Ensure all business hires experience the Group and business-specific onboarding programmes as per the target experiences.

Talent Reviews, Development, Mobility and Promotions

• Support business talent reviews in line with the Absa Group Talent Review process that achieves business objectives and creates a robust internal bench of dynamic top talent for the business and for the Absa Group
• Promote a self-driven development culture in the business and broader Absa
• Provide SME input to Learning and Leadership Development strategies to facilitate holistic future-fit talent development for the business
• Facilitate talent mobility within the business and across Absa using appropriate People Function forums and communities of practice, in line with the Group Talent Mobility Standard
• Ensure all business promotions are implemented in line with the Absa Group Promotions Standard.
• Track and monitor all promotions across the business on a monthly basis, and proactively address any deviations in a timely manner.

Performance Management

• Execute the business performance review cycle on an annual basis, in line with the Group standard and business requirements.

Retention, Off-boarding and alumni management

• Drive implementation of effective retention strategies for business ExCo succession pipeline talent in collaboration with the Leadership and Learning team.
• Implement employee off-boarding and alumni management in accordance with the Group Standard.
• Track and monitor all business critical and succession talent exits on a monthly basis

Capability Building

• Participate actively in the business Talent Management Community of Practice for personal upskilling, sharing of own knowledge, successes and best practices; and implementing all required manager or colleague-focused interventions in line with business and Group requirements
• Build business leaders’ and managers’ capabilities in owning and executing the talent management agenda as a personal and business priority.

Risk Management and Governance

• Ensure own understanding and implementation of all relevant Talent Management processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks including, onboarding, development, promotions and off-boarding.
• Support implementation of corrective action items with internal audit and management Assurance for findings related to talent management in the business.
• Drive a culture of proactive compliance and risk management within executive and management teams, and the business as a whole.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Human and Social Studies (Required)