Head of People

We re hiring for a Head of People We re looking for a collaborative dynamic and innovative individual who will bring huge experience energy and passion into the Head of People role

At Pargo our Head of People has a  broad reaching mandate which in its essence is to support our team to grow and thrive and deliver against our mission and to help to make Pargo an incredible place to work

Your responsibilities extend across the team member life cycle You will work closely with our People team and our CEO and COO to ensure that our team is motivated engaged productive and aligned to our mission of creating access 

This includes

• Sourcing and Hiring finding and recruiting future talent to join our team
  

• Onboarding new joiners setting up our new joiners for success in their team and at Pargo
  

• People Enablement building and running the systems that allow smooth running of the team for areas such as leave salaries contracts policies and performance management
  

• Org Design ensuring our team is structured to optimally deliver against our mission
  

• Learning and development Levelling up team and leaders
  

• Being the steward of our culture embedding our values and behaviours
  

• Team experience and retention owning the way the team engages with each other from the office to social events
  

• Internal communications and tooling owning internal communications such as team meetings as well as tooling and the way the team uses tools to facilitate our work and communicate
  

Required experience

• A degree in BCom HR Management or BCom Industrial Psychology or related field
  

•   years HR/People experience 
  

• Demonstrated experience in a People Leadership role running a People function or significant components thereof
  

Useful experience

• Experience with HR databases Application Tracking Systems (ATS) and Employee Management Systems (HRIS)
  

• Proven theoretical knowledge of current legislation and HR policies
  

• Sound knowledge of labour laws and policies that govern the defined duties
  

• Proven project management skills
  

• Experience in coaching in a changing environment
  

• Is self motivated and excited by the possibilities of technology
  

• Has a systematic approach with an analytical mindset
  

• Learner mindset
  

• Based in Cape Town and can be in our office in Gardens at least days a week
  

Our vision is to create access for anybody in Africa Our approach to achieving this is to

• Take action
  

• Execute exceptionally
  

• Embrace change
  

• Be transparent
  

• Prioritise our customers and lastly and most importantly
  

• Dream BIG
  

We have a great young team of hardworking colleagues who enjoy the following benefits

• Valuable learning opportunities from seasoned professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit
  

• Insight into the runnings of a high growth innovative startup
  

• Flexible working a combination of remote working and in office in our beautiful office space in Gardens
  

• Competitive remuneration
  

• Compelling bonus structure
  

• Contribution to medical aid and life cover
  

• Encouragement of own initiatives
  

• Space for selfgrowth
  

• Enrolment into personal training programmes
  

• Fun activities with a cool team that regularly get together to do things like action cricket pub quizzes and runs
  

Pargo is the leading click and collect company in South Africa on a mission to build the largest delivery network of techenabled Pargo points in the Middle East and Africa (MEA)  Founded in in Cape Town Pargo allows people to collect return and send their parcels at Pargo points that are established at local retail stores With over Pargo points in neighborhoods close to peoples homes even in the most remote areas Pargo creates access to the regions rapidly growing middle class of online shoppers