Svitzer

Luanda, Angola

Human Resources

My name is Nils De Jong, Country Manager for Svitzer Angola and I am looking for our new HR Manager to join the Svitzer family based in Luanda, Angola.

If you are looking for an engaging role with the opportunity to truly make a difference within our people processes, please apply. In our diverse culture as your leader, I promise to do my very best to support you succeeding every day. What that means for you is we will define together – but I promise that I’ll have your back, empower you and do my best to remove the roadblocks that you cannot remove yourself.

Svitzer is a towage company, which means we help our customers maneuver their larger ships safely and timely in and out of port. You may have heard about the large container ship stuck in the Suez Canal – our Svitzer tug boats in the region played an active role in supporting the mission of freeing the large container ship from its dire straits and we helped unlock the gridlock that global trade was experiencing due to the incident. I look forward to sharing more about what we do and our important role in keeping the world supply of goods flowing.

You will play a significant role in the creation of a lasting culture of teamwork, lessons learned and knowledge sharing by drawing support from members within Svitzer Globally as well as Regional and Country HR & Crewing colleagues. I am passionate both about our team and the business and my style of communication is open, collaborative and direct. I appreciate that you are upright, structured and collaborative in your way of engaging with our team across functions within Svitzer AMEA Region.

You will report directly to me and become part of the Svitzer Angola HR & Crewing Team and your peers and close co-workers are the HR & Crewing colleagues in our operations covering the AMEA Region.

This role is located in Luanda, Angola. We work flexibly, not because there is a policy telling us to, but because it just makes good business and work/life sense and creates an engaging work environment. Some ad-hoc travel may be required once the world allows. This will be planned flexibly and based on yours as well as the business specific needs.

• Accountable for the full employee life cycle for Svitzer Angola which includes recruitment, onboarding, performance management yearly cycle, compensation, job grading, annual salary reviews and offboarding employing best practice standards.

• Ownership of the HR Program of Angolanization, Talent, Succession Planning, Diversity, Well-being, and Employee Engagement for the Svitzer Angola entity.

• Leading all Organization Development delivery for Svitzer Angola through engaging with Svitzer AMEA regional HR for releasing training programs for leaders and employees. Forming focused training and development for the region. Facilitating training and development activities.

• Smart, cost efficient and timely recruitment of shore staff, centrally co-ordinating the recruitment processes and working closely with line managers, developing job descriptions, placing adverts, screening, and interviewing candidates and managing recruitment agencies.

• Support and guide the Country Manager in ensuring meaningful engagement with Industrial and Employee Relations activities, and where required participating in collective bargaining and the resolution of collective disputes.

• Work with local management to undertake detailed investigations of complex enquiries relating to performance management, disciplinary procedures, misconduct, and grievance resolution where required.

• Execute HR processes as relevant and ensures HR governance.

• Provide day to day HR consultancy to Leaders within the business, ensuring conduct and activities are aligned to our Corporate Values, (Safety) Management System and the standards of the countries in which we operate. Build relationships and trust with leaders and colleagues.

• Management of expatriate visa’s, all aspects of local and expatriate contracts along with expatriate mobility procedures

• Roll out and management of the HR platform Workday for HR tasks

• Accountability for crewing management for local and expatriate crews in the Svitzer

• Lead the recruitment and onboarding new crewing staff to ensure compliance, crew training through coordination with operational functions and country managers to manage training plans, materials, and platforms. Ensure that vessels in Angola are manned according to legal requirements and Svitzer’s standards for relevant operational activities.

• Responsible for any ad hoc tasks allocated, HR reporting and projects along with any potential merger and acquisition activity

• Bachelor and/ or master’s degree in human resources, business discipline or psychology

• Professional HR membership desirable

• Union and Industrial Relations experience is essential and required

• 8 - 10 years HR Business Partnership experience in transportation, maritime or logistics sectors.

• Solid stakeholder engagement with capability to communicate effectively with Leaders across all levels along with the ability to work with front line staff

• Strong business acumen and negotiation skills

• Sound financial management knowledge and analytical skills

• Excellent verbal and written Portuguese and English communication skills and the capability to deal with people at a broad range of levels

• Ability to work effectively in a matrix structure

• Possess empathy, personal tact, cultural understanding, and strong communication skills and integrity.

• Comfortable with navigating Angolan employment laws, drafting employment terms and contracts for senior management and scarce skills professionals.

• High drive result oriented and decisive with a passion for winning

• Resiliency in challenging situations.

• Able to handle confidential and sensitive information.

• Willingness to travel to Soyo on a regular basis