Human Capital Business Partner (CPT)

Date: 17 Sept 2026

Location:

Bellville, Western Cape, ZA

Company: Sanlam Group

About Sanlam Corporate

Sanlam Corporate forms part of the Sanlam Group which offers retail and corporate life insurance, health and investment products in South Africa. Our vision is to be the preferred partner to Corporate and Public Sector by providing awesome client experience and comprehensive solutions that enable the financial resilience and prosperity of those entities and their employees. We believe in creating and cultivating a positive, diverse, energised working environment that gives every individual the opportunity to achieve success and deliver meaningful value.

Overall purpose of the Role

The HR Business Partner is an experienced human resource professional with the ability to develop strong partnerships in their day-to-day work within assigned portfolios. This is achieved through a deep understanding of the department's and business's key challenges and the provision of strategic HR interventions that enable managers and employees to achieve their goals while fostering a positive, productive, and high-performing workplace. In addition, the incumbent will provide dedicated HR support to the Core Operations business unit, partnering closely with operational leaders and employees to ensure people strategies, workforce initiatives, and HR solutions are aligned with operational objectives, driving workforce effectiveness and business performance.

Key responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnering

Collaborate closely with senior leaders to understand business goals and translate them into integrated human capital strategies that drive performance, growth, and transformation.
Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders on all people-related matters.
Influence decision-making with insights and evidence-based advice.
Supports and advises managers and employees in the specific environment through consistent and effective implementation of Human Resource initiatives and people practices.
Liaises with the segment COEs in initiating, implementing and supporting key operational talent management, performance management, learning and development, organisational development.
Ensures efficiency in transactional operations such as recruitment, Employee relations, and data management for their areas of responsibilities.
Executes and implements the Human Resource Operational Plan to ensure that all HR services are delivered within agreed upon timelines and set standards.

Own Talent Management & Succession Planning for business area

Builds leadership competence through coaching and guide line management around people
processes to deliver the People Strategy
Implements a talent management framework (including succession management) and works with
the Manco team to implement
Identifies the immediate and long-term talent issues that impact the area and put appropriate
plans in place to address
Drive talent reviews, succession planning, and career development initiatives to build a strong
leadership pipeline and retain top talent.
Support leadership pipeline development and critical skills retention.
Provide day–to–day on the job and off the job advice and support to employees and line managers on policies, practices and procedures while ensuring consistent application across the respective business unit.

Liaises with the Organisational Development CoE and performs activities to

Maintains and updates the organisational structure (organogram) so that an approved structure is maintained and kept up-to-date;
Develops, maintains, updates and reviews job descriptions to ensure that all positions on approved organisational structure have up-to-date job descriptions that reflects the duties and responsibilities (job outputs) and job requirements (job inputs) required for the job;
Maintains and implements the performance management system.
Ensure all new appointees, promoted employees and those moving to different roles within the organisation are properly onboarded.

Qualifications and experience

Bachelor's Degree/Diploma in human resources.
Post graduate qualification preferred.
5 -7 years’ experience in an HR generalist role preferably within a corporate or financial services environment.
Demonstrated experience in talent management, workforce planning, organizational design, and employee engagement.
Proven record of helping organisations to become more effective using its human capital.

Knowledge and skills

A strong understanding of HR legislation and requirements, and the ability to apply the relevant legislation in the work environment. Specifically, knowledge of employment practices & compliance (Labour Relations Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Employment Equity Act, Skills development Act)
Strong communication skills and presentation skills
Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills
Ability to analyse and interpret statistical data/HR analytics
Relating and networking
Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
Background in leadership development and coaching

Core competencies

Cultivates Innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful.
Client Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
Resilience - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.