Dischem - Perm - 1 Position - People & Culture Projects Lead

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
Lead the successful delivery of strategic P&C initiatives through structured project management and agile delivery methodologies. Orchestrates complex project workflows, managing interdependencies, and driving outcomes that enhance employee experience, operational agility, and organizational effectiveness. This role is responsible for integrating cross-functional P&C capabilities, enabling digital innovation, and ensuring alignment with business priorities.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
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People & Culture Project Management

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  Translate P&C strategic objectives into product backlogs, epics, user stories, and sprint deliverables.
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  Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, charters, and risk registers.
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  Drive P&C projects using Scrum and Agile methodologies, facilitating sprints, retrospectives, sprint planning, and daily stand-ups.
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  Lead the planning and delivery of multiple P&C deliverables and identify and pull in P&C expertise (e.g., Talent, Learning, OD, Employee Relations, Rewards)
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  Influence and motivate project contributors and stakeholders across P&C, IT, and business units without formal reporting lines.
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  Provide executive-level reporting on project status, deliverables, risk mitigations, and budget utilization.
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  Develop dashboards or tracking tools for monitoring project KPIs and benefits realization.
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  Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management
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  Lead project meetings, provide feedback to Business PMO and engage key stakeholders to ensure alignment and accountability.
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  Translate complex P&C and technical deliverables into business-facing communication for managers and employees.
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  Establish effective governance forums (e.g., working groups, steering committees) to ensure alignment, issue resolution, and decision-making.
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  Use data and KPIs to measure impact, track ROI, and drive continuous improvement.
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  Collaborate with the Change, Culture and internal Communications team to support change readiness, adoption and engagement.
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  Governance, Compliance & Risk
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  Identify and map project interdependencies, ensuring that all cross-functional impacts are visible and proactively managed.
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  Ensure all P&C project activities adhere to internal governance protocols, labour legislation, and data privacy laws (POPIA, BCEA, LRA).
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  Monitor and report on project health, flagging risks early and implementing corrective actions.
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  Ensure documentation, SOPs, and signoffs are captured for audit and assurance purposes.
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  Solutions Delivery & Sustainability
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  Ensure a smooth transition of project outcomes to P&C functional teams, including system/process ownership and SOP documentation.
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  Conduct post-implementation reviews to assess outcomes, adoption, and lessons learned.
• QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
• Bachelor's degree in human resource management / industrial psychology / business administration.
  4 - 7 years' experience in HR, Project Management, or related roles, with at least 3 years in HR project delivery.
  Certification in Project Management (PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent) and working on PM Tools such as Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet, Trello.
  Agile certifications preferred Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or PMI-ACP.
  Strong understanding of People & Culture functional areas: Talent, OD, Learning, Performance, Total Rewards, ER/IR.
  Strong exposure to People & Culture programme transformation projects and ability to lead cross-functional teams in matrix organizations and manage stakeholders at various levels.
  

Desired Skills and Experience

Our Client within the Retail Sector required People & Culture (HR Project Delivery / Agile Methodologies) Manager

Ideal candidate will Lead the successful delivery of strategic People & Culture initiatives through structured project management and agile delivery methodologies. Orchestrates complex project workflows, managing interdependencies, and driving outcomes that enhance employee experience, operational agility, and organizational effectiveness. This role is responsible for integrating cross-functional P&C capabilities, enabling digital innovation, and ensuring alignment with business priorities.

Drive P&C projects using Scrum and Agile methodologies, facilitating sprints, retrospectives, sprint planning, and daily stand-ups.
Lead the planning and delivery of multiple P&C deliverables and identify and pull in P&C expertise (e.g., Talent, Learning, OD, Employee Relations, Rewards)

Bachelor's degree in human resource management / industrial psychology / business administration.
4 - 7 years' experience in HR, Project Management, or related roles, with at least 3 years in HR project delivery.
Certification in Project Management (PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent) and working on PM Tools such as Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet, Trello.
Agile certifications preferred Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or PMI-ACP.