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    Global Director - Nairobi, Kenya - Living Goods

    Living Goods
    Living Goods Nairobi, Kenya

    1 week ago

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    Full time
    Description
    At Living Goods we empower people to improve the health of their families, friends and communities.

    Living Goods supports networks of 'Avon-like' health entrepreneurs who go door to door to teach families how to improve their health and wealth and sell life-changing products such as simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, safe delivery kits, fortified foods, clean cook stoves, water filters, and solar lights.

    By combining the best practices from business and public health, we are dramatically lowering child mortality AND creating livelihoods for thousands of enterprising women.

    Living Goods supports a network of over 2,000 micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights.

    As part of the Branch Team, you will play a key role in supporting Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) to deliver high quality health care to their communities and generate sales of critical products.


    The position:
    The People and Culture (P&C) function is strengthening its support across the organization, both at strategic and operational levels.

    This includes how we think and operationalize organizational design, reward programs, get into new countries and strengthen global HR support.

    In this role of Global Director - Talent Management and Capability you will design and implement an integrated Talent Management and Capability strategy for Living Goods to ensure overall achievement of organizational goals while aligning to future business opportunities.

    This role reports directly to the Chief People and Culture Officer.
    You will be responsible for the following, overseeing strategy and ensuring implementation:

    Talent attraction, acquisition and on - boarding management:
    Lead the design and implementation of an integrated global talent sourcing strategy.
    Lead workforce planning strategies by analyzing and advising on short and long-term workforce requirements.
    Enable shaping of a future-fit organization by ensuring quality of hires. Influence and partner with senior leadership in making the right hiring decision. Responsible for the hiring of C-Suite/Senior leadership.
    Design and implement world class recruiting processes, systems and policies. Develop and manage Talent Acquisition reports, dashboards and metrics.

    Act as Subject Matter Expert on behalf of Living Goods for Employer Branding, Employee Value Proposition, diversity and providing Living Goods with best practices that include a digital agenda, external benchmarks and innovative solutions.

    Build talent acquisition capability across the People & Culture teams & line managers
    Lead and manage country talent acquisition teams.
    Oversee the on-boarding process ensuring alignment with best practice and great candidate experience for the new hire.


    Succession Planning:
    Lead the global organization-wide succession planning process to build bench strength to meet current and future business needs. Work with HRBP's & senior leaders to prepare individuals for future roles.
    Develop integrated talent strategies to address talent gaps (6 Bs)
    Continuously review assessment tools to ensure that they meet best practice standards and business needs.


    Leadership Development:

    Conceptualize and design Leadership Development programs that cut across all levels (Global Leadership, Country Leadership, Managers & Supervisors) ensuring global best practices are reviewed and adopted locally.

    Develop programs to strengthen Living Goods leaders' ability to align, drive and develop top performing teams through development of a Leadership Development platform and supporting HR Business Partners in offering the best sparring and coaching to the business leaders they support.

    Subject Matter Expert for leadership assessments, coaching, mentorship and other leadership related initiatives.

    Lead robust development planning ensuring that a cohort of key leaders are developed to take on larger roles to meet succession needs.

    Research latest development in management, leadership and organization development areas and keep abreast to serve as a subject matter expert and consult to organization regarding critical people issues.


    Organization Capability Development:
    In partnership with HRBP's and senior leaders,

    Facilitate organizational reviews to identify functional development needs through a structured approach.
    Drive the development of functional capability building frameworks
    Create functional capability development plans ensuring alignment with overall organizational strategies.

    Design global talent development/feeder programs (Graduate Programs, Internship, etc)
    Develop organizational training platforms and tools. Manage knowledge capture and establish a credible digitized learning.
    Evaluate and maintain functional skill/competency models that facilitate the assessment of employees and drive related development planning.


    Performance Management:

    Responsible for ensuring that the performance management process design and it's implementation is clearly aligned to the achievement of business results.

    Incumbent partners closely with leadership teams to continuously review and ensure alignment of objectives, methodology, measures/KPIs across Living Goods.

    Develop programs and initiatives to ensure that managers and employees possess the capability to ensure a consistent and high-quality Performance Management process that ensures the achievement of organizational goals.


    Education, Experience And Skills:
    Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. At least 10 years in talent and capability. Management experience of at least 5 years gained in a best-practice environment
    Certified HR Professional from recognized institutions.

    Strong performance track record specialized within Organizational Development, Talent Management and Learning on both the strategic and facilitative level.

    Experience working broadly as an HR Business Partner thereby understanding from within what it takes to drive HR initiatives as a true partner to the business.

    Ability to effectively demonstrate capabilities as a Leadership Coach, Performance Consultant and Talent Director
    Astute at translating organizational strategy into talent development plans
    An independent thinker, capable of functional conceptualizing, possesses strong organization skills, client focus and orientation
    Recognized strong communicator with positive influential interpersonal skills; ability to communicate in both technical and non-technical terms to all levels of audience
    Knowledge and practical experience working in Africa is essential, preferably across geographies.
    Bilingual in French is a plus.
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