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Oyena Mudau

Oyena Mudau

Pretoria

Summary

As a Talent catalyst with demonstrated experience in people practices, I excel at creating environments where people and businesses not only grow but thrive. I have proven track record of success and bring exceptional business acumen. By leveraging my collaborative approach to delivering results, I am always up for the challenge of creating impactful change.
Passionate about advocacy, I strive to make a positive impact. I believe in cultivating relationships built on mutual respect and excellence to deliver long term value and impact.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

HR Manager

Dentsu Central Services
Johannesburg
01.2023 - Current
  • Currently providing expert HR and commercial knowledge to strategically partner with the business, aligning to its values and achieving commercial goals through the implementation of effective people strategies.
  • HR strategy. Supporting development and delivery of market/client group HR strategy and leads the communication, implementation and measurement of key people initiatives and programmes within own business area in order to support a vibrant, fast-paced and high-performance culture
  • Senior Business Relationships. Building strong partnerships and acting as a confidante, coach and constructive challenger to stakeholders
  • Talent Strategy & Management. Using career and talent framework to develop the careers of our employees through roles and assignments that will provide unique opportunities to build experience and skills
  • Business Management. I have a clear understanding of the organizational capabilities and how best to develop those capabilities through the HR strategy. Develops a robust understanding of business financial performance and commercials. I provide inputs to the budget and planning process as needed
  • Change Management. Leading and supporting business leaders in key organizational change management initiatives (M&A’s, organizational culture change, business process re-engineering, reorganizations). Supports the senior managers and HR Director in change of organization design and resource management as needed
  • Career Development. Working with our line management in leveraging the framework provided by the talent team to ensure that engaging career development plans are developed and implemented for our employees
  • Performance Development. Driving an effective approach to performance development with line leaders. I am supporting business leaders in providing effective feedback to motivate high performers and improve poor performers or deal with the lack of performance as needed
  • Employee Relations. Solving key employee issues which might pose a significant risk to the business and organization in own business area
  • Vision and Values. Ensuring that our people practices are effective in embedding and reinforcing our values and that we develop our leaders to be strong ambassadors of the vision and values
    Employee Engagement. Mobilizes commitment and accountability for employee engagement through senior managers and acts as a support and advisor for line leaders in the area of Employee engagement. Leverages insights from Check In Survey
  • Diversity. Champions a more diverse workplace by acting on HR initiatives that will drive change

Regional People Support Manager

Pep Stores
Centurion
10.2021 - 12.2022
  • The key purpose of this role was to shape and drive the Pep people agenda within the regional team. I had a specific responsibility of coaching and working with line management to implement and manage the people cycle and priorities and delivering all the people processes. I had to manage and quality-assure HR
    approaches and processes, and ensure that the interests and needs of the operational team and its employees are addressed, in order to create and sustain employee engagement.
  • Partner with the regional operations team to lead, manage and support their teams to deliver on business priorities
  • Ensure that the People Support service that is delivered drives business results and supports the business strategy
  • Build HR capability and credibility through robust training and continued development and coaching
  • Support the recruitment and selection process in the region, including ensuring effective on-boarding
  • Ensure that all relevant legislative diversity requirements are met and support is provided to line managers around the diversity agenda
  • Ensure IR policies and practices are understood and employed by all
  • Manage the resolution of employee relations issues in the region and represent the company for conciliation and arbitration at CCMA for dispute referrals submitted
  • Monitor the regional operations team performance and provide data for the people KPI scorecard
  • Maintain the organizational culture through continued engagement with the teams

People Business Partner

AbInBev
Pretoria
10.2017 - 09.2021
  • The purpose of this role was to support various departments in the region in the delivery of strategic objectives through the development of solutions to people issues, relationship building and provision of specialist HR knowledge and advice. I worked with line managers to deliver HR processes and practices. Ensured integrated HR support as required pulling on all COEs and was accountable for all HR issues in the function. Supported HR reporting that drove business insights.
  • Ensure the overall health of talent and people practices in the various departments
  • Establish and monitor the HR processes throughout the year and coach the line managers
  • Ensure excellent execution of the HR processes within the various departments
  • Translating business needs into clearly articulated and actionable organization and people plans,
    informing the year-on-year Capability Strategy for the departments
  • Diagnose business performance problems and collaborate with specialist teams to create effective and integrated HR solutions for teams & individuals
  • Provide feedback to specialist teams about HR solution effectiveness and work with them as appropriate to identify continuous improvement opportunities
  • Monitor organization performance & provide data for the people/organization scorecard
  • Meet local delivery needs (e.g., employee relations/industrial relations, statutory/ regulatory requirements) pulling on specialists and others as required.
  • Participate in the governance of HR Operations to define and review the quality and the cost of the service provided
  • Ensure data integrity of SAP HR information at local level

Recruitment Specialist

The Appointment Firm
Johannesburg
02.2017 - 11.2017
  • Opening files for positions
  • Preparing Advertisements for positions
  • Client and position research
  • Placing adverts on and searching for potential candidates on Career Junction and Pnet
  • Searching on Database or liaising with right consultant regarding existing candidate
  • Screening Candidates effectively on the phone
  • Setting up Candidates to be interviewed
  • Interviewing face to face
  • Assisting in need at CV preparation
  • Shortlisting candidates for roles and submitting to the clients

Recruitment Administrator

Webhelp
Johannesburg
09.2016 - 09.2017
  • Facilitating bulk recruitment of Call Centre agents for Vodafone and Shop Direct campaigns
  • Conducting psychometric testing and assessments for candidates and maintaining the assessment results database
  • Assist with employment offers of candidates and pre-on boarding process
  • Respond to queries in person, by phone and email from various stakeholders such as recruitment agencies, perspective candidates etc
  • Advertise job orders on online job search engines and other social media platforms
  • Understanding the firm recruitment strategy and ensuring EE/AA targets are met
  • Setting up appointments with the panel to interview candidates
  • Screen and manage the recruitment online platforms daily
  • Communicate with the staff and partners on a professional level
  • Record keeping of all recruitment information

Recruitment Officer

Resolution Circle
Johannesburg
10.2015 - 05.2016
  • Provide full recruitment support for the whole company through understanding the recruitment requirements
  • Assisting Senior Managers in developing job descriptions
  • Loading vacancy and workflow to successful appointment on HR system
  • Sourcing suitable candidates via job portals, word-of-mouth, networking and/or recruitment agencies
  • Screening CVs and shortlisting suitable candidates
  • Providing feedback to successful and unsuccessful candidates
  • Capturing employee information on HR database
  • Responding to HR related queries and concerns from employees
  • Advising staff on HR policies and procedures

Recruitment and Training Consultant

Oceana HR Professionals
Johannesburg
01.2015 - 10.2015
  • Provide support for recruitment and selection processes and HR generalist duties
  • Assist with recruitment initiatives by posting job adverts, reviewing resumes, scheduling interviews, tests management, updating the recruitment system and supporting communications to candidates and providers as needed.
  • Provide full recruitment administrative support to the team
  • Administer project management of Ad Response-Handling projects from advertising stage to short listing stage
  • Screened and captured CVs
  • Conducted Quality Assurance of work done by fellow team members

Education

BComm in Human Resource Management - Human Resource Management

University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, GP
2015

Skills

  • HR Operations
  • Labour Relations
  • Employee Engagement
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Learning and development

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

HR Manager

Dentsu Central Services
01.2023 - Current

Regional People Support Manager

Pep Stores
10.2021 - 12.2022

People Business Partner

AbInBev
10.2017 - 09.2021

Recruitment Specialist

The Appointment Firm
02.2017 - 11.2017

Recruitment Administrator

Webhelp
09.2016 - 09.2017

Recruitment Officer

Resolution Circle
10.2015 - 05.2016

Recruitment and Training Consultant

Oceana HR Professionals
01.2015 - 10.2015

BComm in Human Resource Management - Human Resource Management

University of Johannesburg

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