At Dis-Chem Life, our people are at the heart of everything we do. The Human Resources Business Partner plays a critical role in protecting and strengthening our culture by ensuring that employee relations practices are fair, consistent, legally compliant, and aligned with our values.
This role exists to create a workplace where accountability, performance, trust, and respect can thrive. By guiding leaders through complex people matters, mitigating business risk, promoting procedural fairness, and ensuring compliance with labour legislation, the Human Resources Business Partner helps create an environment where employees can perform at their best while supporting the sustainable growth of the business.
As a trusted advisor to management, the Human Resources Business Partner enables commercially sound people decisions that balance employee wellbeing, business requirements, legislative obligations, and organisational integrity.
Role Summary
The Human Resources Business Partner is responsible for driving and supporting all employee relations and human resources activities across the business. This includes managing disciplinary matters, grievances, incapacity processes, consultations, investigations, performance management, probation management, and dispute resolution activities.
The role works closely with operational leaders and stakeholders to provide guidance on labour legislation, company policies, procedural compliance, and employee relations risk management. The incumbent is responsible for conducting investigations, preparing disciplinary and CCMA documentation, compiling evidence bundles, managing case administration, supporting hearings, and ensuring all matters are managed in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements.
The Human Resources Business Partner also plays a key role in identifying employee relations trends, mitigating organisational risk, reporting on employee relations activities, and ensuring accurate record keeping while promoting fair, balanced, and commercially sound people practices across the business.
Benefits
Exposure to complex employee relations, labour law, and organisational risk management matters.
Professional development opportunities within a growing and regulated financial services environment.
Opportunity to represent the business in labour-related proceedings and develop specialist employee relations expertise.
Collaborative and people-focused culture.
Meaningful work that contributes to organisational effectiveness, compliance, and employee wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities
Employee Relations and Industrial Relations Management
Manage disciplinary, grievance, incapacity, consultation, probation, and performance management processes.
Conduct investigations and gather evidence relating to employee relations matters.
Prepare recommendations based on investigation findings and associated risks.
Ensure the consistent application of policies, procedures, and disciplinary standards.