Reporting to: HR Manager

Location: Montague Gardens, Cape Town

A great opportunity has become available for a people-focused, energetic, and self-driven individual to join our HR Team. We are looking for someone who is passionate about HR and people processes and who is highly organised and enjoys operating in a fast-paced environment. Our successful candidate should be committed, driven, approachable and dedicated to providing our organisation with effective people support.

The Senior HR Officer will work closely with the HR Manager and wider business to deliver a quality HR service to our 3 Sites in Montague Gardens and will be responsible for executing recruitment, training and development, employee relations, performance and talent management and organisational culture initiatives.

Key Job Functions:

HR Compliance

• Ensure compliance with labour legislation (BCEA, LRA, SDA) and internal HR policies.
• Ensure company adherence to HR policies and processes.
• Assist with relevant Ethical Trade Compliance Audits.

Recruitment and Onboarding

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for a wide variety of roles.
• Conduct employee onboarding and orientation programs to ensure smooth integration of new hires.

Performance Management

• Facilitate annual and bi-annual performance review processes (e.g., goal setting, mid-year reviews, year-end KPA reviews).
• Offer guidance to employees on self-assessments and development discussions.
• Track completion rates of performance reviews and escalate non-compliance.

Talent Management

• Assist and support the implementation of talent review processes
• Collaborate with leadership to ensure Individual Development Plans are in place for key talent and successors.

Employee Relations

• Promote and maintain constructive labour relations across all sites in Cape Town by facilitating employment matters in a fair, objective, and legally compliant manner.
• To provide sound ER support to line Managers and Supervisors.
• Represent the Company at the CCMA as required.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with the unions and/or workplace committee.

Skills Development

• Responsible for the execution of the Annual Training Plan as well as Discretionary Grants.
• Implementation and monitoring of learnership, bursaries, internship and skills programmes.
• Co-ordinate and run the Skills Development Committee Meetings.

HR Projects and Reporting

• Execute HR improvement projects in line with driving a best practice people approach.
• Responsible for the smooth running of all HR administration processes and HR input to payroll.
• Responsible for routine HR reporting, which includes the updates of Dashboards at required timeframes.

Culture, Engagement and Employee Wellness

• Act as a culture ambassador by fostering an environment of trust, recognition, and purpose through the execution of meaning programs that reinforce a values-driven, inclusive, and high-performance culture.
• Monitor employee sentiment and engagement levels, providing insight to improve cultural alignment across all business units.
• Support the execution of the company’s Wellness Calendar by collaborating with internal stakeholders to drive participation and promote physical, emotional, and social well-being.

 Knowledge and Experience Required:

• Must have relevant HR tertiary qualification –Degree or Diploma.
• 4+ years of generalist HR experience with extensive exposure to the Skills Development and Recruitment Functions.
• Experience with CCMA representation advantageous
• Knowledge and application of labour legislation, particularly the BCEA, LRA and SDA
• Experience working within a FMCG or wholesale and retail environment will be preferable
• Excellent understanding of HR processes

Person Profile, Skills and Attitude:

• People-focused, energetic, and self-driven.
• Highly organised with a sharp eye for detail.
• Passionate about creating positive work experiences and supporting business goals.
• A natural relationship builder who thrives in a collaborative environment.
• Able to build and maintain strong working relationships
• Excellent communication skills
• Highly organised with strong administration skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Displays a concern for business values and ethical standards
• Places a focus on promoting a healthy and positive workplace culture
• High sense of confidentiality
• Passion for achieving excellence
• Sets high personal standards, is focused and self-motivated
• Willing to travel as required and between our two Cape Town sites
• Valid driver’s license
• Own transport

Key Competencies:

• Quality Delivery
• Applying Knowledge & Expertise
• Planning and organising
• Adapting to Change
• Interpersonal Relations
• Taking Initiative

Application:

Please note that you may on occasion be required to perform tasks that are not part of your normal daily duties but may be necessary due to the operational requirements of the Company.

All interest applicants please forward your CV and any supporting documents to: Recruitment@rialtofoods.co.za. Application Closing Date: 31 July 2025. Note: Preference will be given to EE candidates in line with the Company’s employment equity plan and BBBEE strategy. If you have not heard from us within three weeks kindly consider your application as unsuccessful.

Note: In order to consider any application for employment, we will have to process your personal information. The Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (POPIA), provides that when one processes another’s personal information, such collection, retention, dissemination and use of that person’s personal information must be done in a lawful and transparent manner.

To give effect to the above, we are required to provide you with information regarding the processing of your personal information. This information is recorded under the HR Processing Notice, which can be accessed and viewed on the Company website at https://www.libstar.co.za/legal/. Printed copies of this Processing Notice can also be accessed from the HR department. We kindly request that you read the HR Processing Notice to ensure that you understand how Libstar uses and processes your personal information.