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People Consultant Salary: Competitive and based on experience Location: Johannesburg Keywords: People Consultant, HR & ER expertise, coaching framework, performance management, talent acquisition, employee relations

Our client is seeking a People Consultant for their People & Organisation division. This role offers the opportunity to provide deep support, HR & ER expertise and advice using a coaching framework. You will be involved in a wide array of engagements with leaders around performance management, talent acquisition, mobility, succession, talent retention and employee relations. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where your skills and experience will be highly valued.

  • Provide HR & ER expertise
  • Engage with leaders on performance management and talent acquisition
  • Contribute to employee relations

What you'll do:

As a People Consultant, you will play a crucial role in providing deep support, HR & ER expertise and advice using a coaching framework. Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve consulting across the employee lifecycle, ensuring that the employee experience aligns with the company's culture. You will partner with various business areas to formulate ideas, optimise solutions and enable people strategies. Your role will also involve coaching on recruitment and onboarding, performance and conduct, transformation as well as facilitating the implementation of people strategies.

  • Consult across the employee lifecycle, in partnership with P & O Leads
  • Ensure the employee experience is entrenched in the company's culture
  • Partner with business areas to formulate ideas, optimise solutions and enable people strategies
  • Consult and coach on recruitment and onboarding, performance and conduct, transformation, facilitation and implementation of people strategies
  • Leverage and use of internal skills and talent (internal mobility)
  • Facilitate succession planning and career pathing guidance

What you bring:

The ideal candidate for this People Consultant role will bring a deep understanding of company culture along with extensive knowledge and experience in relation to people management. You should have commercial acumen along with an appreciation of the regulatory environment. Your strong coaching and consulting skills will be essential for this role. Additionally, you should be able to effectively manage retrenchment, misconduct, poor performance, grievances, and retirement processes.

  • Deep understanding of company culture
  • Knowledge and experience in relation to people management
  • Commerciality and an appreciation of the regulatory environment
  • Coaching and consulting skills
  • Ability to manage retrenchment, misconduct, poor performance, grievances, and retirement processes

What sets this company apart:

Our client values intelligent, energetic individuals filled with passion, integrity and curiosity. They appreciate those who value their flexible culture that encourages challenging the status quo. Diversity, talent and leadership are respected in pursuit of the growth of their business. If you can manage yourself and build strong relationships in order to get things done, you will thrive in their environment.

What's next:

If you're ready to take your career to the next level as a People Consultant, don't hesitate!

Contract Type: FULL_TIME

Specialism: Human Resources

Focus: HR Generalist

Industry: Financial Services

Salary: Negotiable

Workplace Type: On-site

Experience Level: Mid Management

Language: English - Professional working

Location: Johannesburg

Job Reference: K233GY-7A9592AA

Date posted: 21 May 2025

Consultant: Zinzile Dlodlo