People Lead: PPB Pan-Africa

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Job Summary A senior Human Capital business partnering role, assigned to an allocated PBB Pan-Africa Exco portfolio, accountable for translating the PBB Pan-Africa people strategy into portfolio-specific workforce, talent, culture, leadership, organisational effectiveness and change outcomes. The role partners with Exco leaders, HC teams, People Operations and Centres of Expertise to enable customer-led growth, execution discipline, governance and future-fit capability across the relevant function or market. Job Description Key Focus Areas: Accelerate growth and profitability through people priorities linked to business outcomes. Build future-fit leadership capability and succession depth. Drive digital adoption, transformation and workforce readiness. Strengthen organisational effectiveness, decision speed and execution discipline. Create differentiated colleague experiences that support customer-led growth. Key Accountabilities: Strategic Business Partnership: Partner with allocated Exco member and leadership team to translate business strategy into integrated people plans; ensure workforce implications are considered in strategic decisions; surface people risks and opportunities linked to execution. Workforce Planning and Future Capability: Use workforce insights, skills data and market context to identify future capability, critical role, capacity and resourcing priorities for the allocated portfolio. Leadership, Talent and Succession: Partner with Talent and business leaders to strengthen succession coverage, leadership pipeline, mobility, retention of critical skills and future-fit leadership capability. Organisation Effectiveness and Change: Diagnose organisation design, spans/layers, decision-rights, ways-of-working and change-readiness issues; recommend interventions that improve execution speed and accountability. Performance and Culture: Influence leadership teams to create high-performing, inclusive and accountable cultures aligned to PBB Pan-Africa strategic priorities. Integrated HC Delivery: Coordinate Centres of Expertise, People Operations and country HC teams to deliver agreed portfolio people priorities consistently and in line with enterprise frameworks. Executive Advisory and Stakeholder Management: Operate as trusted advisor to allocated Exco member and senior leaders; use people insight to challenge, influence and support complex business decisions. HC Governance, Risk and Compliance: Identify, manage and escalate portfolio people risks; ensure implementation of approved HC frameworks, governance standards and policies in the portfolio. Data, Analytics and Insight: Translate workforce and business data into actionable insight for leadership decision making and value realization. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Qualification: Postgraduate degree in Human Resources, Organisational Psychology, Business, Commerce or related field. Experience: Significant experience in Human Capital Business Partnering within a complex, matrix or multinational environment. Experience partnering executive and senior leadership teams. Experience across talent, organisation effectiveness, workforce planning and change disciplines. Experience operating across multiple geographies and stakeholder groups. Financial services and fintech experience advantageous. Technical Skills: Strategic Human Capital Partnering Workforce Planning; Talent Management Succession Planning Organisation Design Change Management Culture and Engagement Executive Coaching Stakeholder Management Data Analytics HC Governance Critical Competencies: Strategic Thinking Customer Focused Business Acumen Influence Communication Collaboration Leadership Delivering Results Adaptability Decision Making Education Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required) Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank. Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised