Business Unit: Discovery Health
Function: Business Partner / HR Generalist
Date: 5 Aug 2025
Human Resources Generalist (Senior)
About Discovery
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Discovery Health People
Discovery Health People (DHP) is split into 3 smaller teams namely: HR, Training Operations and Learning and Development. The HR team is responsible for managing all aspects in the employee lifecycle. These aspects include but are not limited to recruitment, performance management, tracking and maintaining of employee records and providing HR support to the various business units that they support. The learning and development team designs and develops interactive learning programs / training initiatives, using blended learning, for all of Discovery Health. These programs aim to provide staff with the skills and knowledge required to perform their roles in line with business requirements. The training operations team works closely with and supports the learning and development team. Some of their responsibilities include monitoring and evaluating training programs, scheduling, and coordinating simulation training classes, maintaining of training records and sending out training reports. Together, DHP works and aligns to ensure that maximum service excellence and value is delivered to all their stakeholders and to Discovery Health.
Key purpose
The Senior HR Generalist will work with the HR Manager to provide full HR support and delivery of all people-related services and initiatives to the professional services business areas.
Key Outputs
The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following broad job functions:
- Support the HR Manager on implementing initiatives in line with the DHP and DP strategy.
- Support managers in the implementation of interventions relating to sentiment, team building and retention.
- Keep up to date with transformation targets and maximising recruitment and talent management as a lever for transformation and ensuring compliance to recruitment processes, standards, and policy.
- Facilitate Industrial Relations support and advise, in line with central IR processes.
- On boarding, accountable for successful on-boarding of new recruits, from offer acceptance to completion of induction to ensure a meaningful and positive candidate recruitment experience.
- Conduct talent reviews and support stakeholders with the promotion process.
- Support the teams’ strategic objectives.
- Maintain recruitment and HR related SOPs and spreadsheets to ensure correct reporting and business continuity. This includes capturing and updating information relating to recruitment for stats purposes.
- Developing interview guides and information management.
- Assist hiring managers with role profiling and role sizing.
- Amendments to adverts and job specs to ensure updated job specs are used.
- Ensure that the central repository is up to date with Recruitment and HR documentation.
- Conduct Stay (Orientation) and exit interviews.
- Data Analysis and Trending - Generate appropriate people related reports that will support the business.
Competencies
- Data Analysis and Trending
- Action Oriented
- Compassion
- Customer Focus
- Ethics and Values
- Interpersonal Savvy
- Learning on the Fly
- Instills Trust
- Values Driven
- Influencing
- Relating and networking
- Learning and Researching
- Presenting and communicating information
- Deciding and initiating action
- Organisational awareness
Experience and Qualifications
- Matric
- Degree/ Diploma (HR Related)
- 2 - 3 years HR Consultant / Generalist/ Talent acquisition experience in a Corporate/Service environment
- Competency based interviewing experience
- Proficiency in MS Office Applications, especially MS Excel
Advantageous
- Honours Degree
- Good understanding of medical insurance industry
- Experience in HR Systems i.e., Smart People
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.