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HR Services Partner
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  • Full time
  • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • HR Generalists
Job ID R200001305 Closing date 07/10/2025 Last Updated 30/09/2025

HR Services Partner

Global HR & Payroll Services, the HR Hub

Melrose, Johannesburg, South Africa

We are seeking a detail-orientated, proactive and highly motivated young professional to join our Global HR Services team in Johannesburg, South Africa, through the HR Hub which supports key operational processes for multiple Glencore offices worldwide. Gain exposure to international HR operations and best practice and contribute to impactful employee experiences across the globe. Benefit from valuable in-service work experience, skills and knowledge that will assist in launching your career within the Human Resources field.

The HR Services Partner works in a shared service centre environment (our HR Hub). This role requires strong organisational skills, a customer-focused mindset, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, globally matrixed environment. Key areas of responsibility include coordinating onboarding and offboarding activities, maintaining accurate employee records in Workday, and providing consistent administrative support across multiple countries and jurisdictions. You will be supported through the Human Resources structure in performing your duties.

Primary Task & Key Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for preparing employment contracts, amendments, termination agreements, and related documentation in line with global and local requirements for multiple locations. Ensure accuracy and consistency of terms and conditions for all contracts. Collaborate with HR Leads to update templates as necessary.
  • Responsible for timely delivery of any HR administrative documentation, in keeping with defined service level agreements (SLAs).
  • Responsible for doing the end-to-end employee onboarding and offboarding included but not limited to the below,
    • Onboarding: working with the Talent Acquisition teams from the point of offer acceptance; initiate hire process in Workday; schedule induction sessions and support IT and Office Services with new joiner logistics.
    • Offboarding: ensuring timely processing of terminations in Workday; all supporting documentation and access revocation.
    • Intercompany transfer: supporting both onboarding and offboarding processes.
  • Initiate processes for all transactions in Workday for new joiners, leavers and all employee life cycle changes, within payroll processing deadlines for all locations within scope.
  • Raise tickets/escalations where required and track issue resolution.
  • Run monthly / quarterly Workday reports and validate data for completion and accuracy, as needed.
  • Ensure timely collection of all required documents and completion of tasks, follow up where required for payroll critical activity.
  • Respond to employee and manager queries through HR service channels (email, portal, ticketing system) as appropriate.
  • Manage employee digital personnel dossiers (e-files) and ensure Workday records are up to date; perform regular reviews through reporting and controlling.
  • Provide support for HR-related inquiries, escalating complex issues as needed to Regional Leads. Contribute to training materials and knowledge-sharing for the HR Hub teams.
  • Maintain data integrity by running queries, auditing and analyzing data.
  • Liaise with Regional to ensure compliance with local labour laws and global standards.
  • Support the implementation of global processes, policies, and initiatives.
  • Collaborate and propose changes on the implementation and continuous improvement of HR processes and support the improvement of Workday, resulting in changes to our efficiency and effectiveness. Identify opportunities to streamline HR operations and improve service delivery.

Key Relationships:

  • HR Business Partners
  • Talent Acquisition Specialists
  • Payroll Operations Partners
  • Workday Specialists
  • Regional Leads, where applicable

Desired Experience and Qualifications:

  • As this role is entry level, no prior experience to very limited (maximum of 3 years) work experience.
  • A Bachelor of Commerce degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or another field of study is required.
  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite, for example MS Word, Excel, etc.

Who we are

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonisation while meeting the energy needs of today.

With over 150,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 50 offices.

Glencore’s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.

Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

We will support the global effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through our efforts to decarbonise our own operational footprint. We believe that we should take a holistic approach and have considered our commitment through the lens of our global industrial emissions. Against a restated 2019 baseline, we are targeting to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial emissions by 15% by the end of 2026, 25% by the end of 2030, 50% by the end of 2035 and we have an ambition to achieve net zero industrial emissions by the end of 2050, subject to a supportive policy environment. For more information see our 2024-2026 Climate Action Transition Plan and the About our emissions calculation and reporting section in our 2023 Annual Report, available on our website at glencore.com/publications.​

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