Group HR Director

The Group HR Director is a key executive leadership role responsible for defining and leading the human capital strategy across a diverse portfolio of mining and manufacturing operations. This position ensures strategic alignment of talent initiatives, labour relations, and operational HR excellence across all business units in the Group.

Key Responsibilities:

Group Strategic HR Leadership:

• Define and execute a group-wide HR strategy that supports organizational growth, productivity, and workforce sustainability
• Provide strategic counsel to the executive leadership team and board on all people-related matters
• Lead integration of HR best practices across diverse operations

Talent Strategy & Capability Building:

• Oversee enterprise-wide talent management frameworks: workforce planning, leadership pipelines, and succession planning
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion across the group

Labour Relations & Compliance:

• Lead the development of standardized industrial relations frameworks across business units, ensuring alignment with local labour legislation

Operational HR Governance:

• Establish and govern centralized HR systems, policies, and reporting frameworks across the group
• Drive digitization and analytics in HR to enable data-driven decision-making
• Standardize HR metrics and dashboards to track key workforce KPIs and labour productivity

Organizational Transformation:

• Support M&A integration, restructuring, and organizational redesign efforts from an HR standpoint
• Lead culture transformation initiatives aligned with group values, safety, and operational excellence
• Guide change management initiatives and leadership enablement during business shifts

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Industrial Psychology, Business Administration, or related field (Master’s degree strongly preferred)
• 18+ years of senior HR leadership experience, with at least 7 years in mining, manufacturing, preferred
• Strong track record in strategic workforce planning and talent architecture
• Executive Stakeholder Engagement
• Organizational Design & Change Leadership
• Data-Driven HR Decision Making
• Operational HR Excellence

For more information please contact: Hope Nkanyane