People & Culture Business Partner

Responsibilities:

• Partner with leadership and line managers to understand business priorities and translate them into practical people and organisational solutions.
• Support workforce planning, manpower forecasting, role design, and organisational structure reviews.
• Lead recruitment and selection processes across the business, ensuring strong alignment between talent requirements and operational needs.
• Strengthen onboarding and integration processes to improve employee experience and speed to productivity.
• Own and coordinate the organisation's performance management cycle, ensuring clear objectives, regular feedback, and accountability.
• Coach managers on managing performance, difficult conversations, employee development, and team effectiveness.
• Manage employee relations matters, including grievances, disciplinary cases, attendance concerns, and performance improvement processes.
• Identify capability gaps and coordinate learning, development, and succession interventions.
• Develop and implement initiatives that strengthen employee engagement, communication, collaboration, and organizational culture.
• Monitor employee experience across the employment lifecycle and identify areas requiring improvement.
• Support leadership in embedding organizational values, expected behaviors, and performance standards.
• Manage employee lifecycle processes including confirmation, promotion, transfer, leave, benefits, exit and offboarding.
• Ensure employment documentation, employee records and HR processes remain accurate and compliant.
• Ensure people's practices comply with applicable Nigerian employment and statutory requirements.
• Develop and track relevant people metrics, identifying trends and providing management with actionable workforce insights.
• Support organizational change and improvement initiatives across the business.
• Identify recurring people, leadership, or structural issues affecting business effectiveness and recommend appropriate interventions.
• Promote a workplace culture built around accountability, professionalism, performance, and respect.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of progressive people/HR experience, with meaningful HR generalist or business partnering responsibility.
• Professional qualifications such as CIPM, CIPD, HRCI, or equivalent are strongly preferred.
• Demonstrable experience in performance management, employee relations, talent management, and organizational development.
• Strong understanding of Nigerian employment practices and statutory requirements.
• Ability to coach, challenge, and influence managers on people-related decisions.
• Strong business judgement with the ability to connect people issues to operational and commercial outcomes.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder-management capability.
• Comfortable combining strategic business partnering with hands-on execution.
• Experience within logistics, supply chain, engineering, oil & gas, or another operational environment would be an advantage.