Contract type Consultant, estimated duration 12 to 18 months.
Location Luanda, remote work can be accommodated for set periods.
Project Lead – Organisation & People Capabilities
Owns the Company’s organisational readiness ahead of operatorship, leading the end-to-end integration of approximately 200 employees inherited from the outgoing operator into the Company’s structure, and steering the organisational and cultural change involved in taking on a major deepwater asset.
WORKSTREAMS
• HR & Transfer of Personnel: Manages the workforce transfer process: employment contract review, mapping of critical roles, and assessment of retention risk and capability gaps.
• Change Management and Communication: Builds the change narrative and stakeholder communication plan, and aligns leadership across the Company and partner staff.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Workforce integration: Mapping and integrating around 130 employees inherited from the outgoing operator into the Company’s structure, defining critical roles, coverage plans and Day 1 staffing readiness.
• Retention: Building and tracking a retention risk assessment for key personnel, with targeted mitigation actions.
• Change leadership: Owning how the transition is communicated to, and experienced by, both inherited and existing staff.
• Workstream governance: Holding accountability for pace, quality and escalation across the people, organisation and communication workstreams.
KEY COMPETENCIES
• Workforce transition experience: Has previously navigated the complexity of bringing inherited staff into a new employer structure, and understands the legal, contractual and human dimensions involved.
• Cross-boundary stakeholder management: Works effectively across Company leadership, the incoming workforce, partners and, in particular, the outgoing operator’s legacy workforce.
• Change management: A track record of leading people through major organisational transitions while protecting morale and productivity.
• Discretion: Handles sensitive information about individuals and organisations with the judgement expected of a senior HR professional.
• Autonomous delivery: Comfortable driving a complex people workstream with a high degree of independence, escalating only where senior decisions are needed.
EXPERIENCE & REQUIREMENTS
• Experience: Minimum 10 years in HR leadership, organisational design or people management within complex industrial environments.
• PMI track record: Experience leading workforce transitions in M&A, carve-outs, operating model integrations or new entity set-up is preferred; large-scale organisational integrations outside an M&A context are considered equivalent.
• Alternative benchmark: Where PMI integration experience is absent, candidates should demonstrate seniority as an HR Director or Head of People, with proven experience integrating large headcounts across organisational boundaries.
• Sector: Oil & Gas background preferred; exposure to Angola or Sub-Saharan Africa is an advantage.
• Project management: Demonstrated ability to plan, sequence and deliver a multi-workstream people programme against a fixed deadline.
• Language: Fluent English is mandatory; Portuguese; French is a plus.
• Working style: Able to work autonomously on a full-time basis, with regular in-country travel for key milestones.
Improving Lives and Organizations
We cover a wide range of competencies to help you get the job done. At the heart of our business lies workforce management, where we handle and subcontract workforces to the most challenging work environments, like graphite and coal mines to Oil Rigs and Ships and Vessels.
We also build on the potential of our workers, to give you highly certified and prepared artisans in the most various trades. For this, we have two Training Centres in Pemba and Maputo in Mozambique fully equipped to prepare artisans in Welding, Electrical, Electronics, Rigging, Boiler making, Mechanical and Scaffolding Trades; and one Training Centre in Palma for Hospitality Training.
We provide our clients with systematic reporting, productivity analysis, labour negotiations, query resolution, employee benefits, tax reports and financial reporting. We can still offer legal Counselling, bureaucratic management and handle every detail regarding your HR and admin requirements. In terms of logistics related to your workforce such as flights, land travel, hotels, catering or anything your staff may need, we can provide.
We do full sourcing of expat workforces and visa management, as well as headhunting or bulk recruitment. We can also simply run your payroll and provide you detailed payslips, bank transfer files, productivity reports and reporting on tax payments.
