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Labour Cost Manager

People Dimension
Centurion Full-day Full-time

Description:

Introduction

A leading well-established security services company based in Centurion is looking for a experienced Labour Cost Manager to join their team. The key purpose of the role is workforce capacity management and labour cost management (specifically but not limited to overtime) which involves the dynamic and strategic management of future labour capacity requirements and costs.

Duties & Responsibilities

The role will be required to:

Interact with Operations, Sales and Human Resources departments to plan for future capacity requirements; Streamline business processes between various departments to facilitate the production of coherent management information relating to direct labour; Review and analyse direct costs, with specific focus on direct labour cost by applying analysis and critical thinking to identify cost savings opportunities; Provide cost information to assist management with the calculation of costs for tenders and quotes.

KPA's

1. Headcount management

Strategic planning of headcount requirement: interact with Operations, Sales and Human Resources departments to identify future capacity requirements Analysing actual headcount in relation to required headcount and deriving action plans for headcount management Specifically where surplus of shortages in manpower has been identified, communicate to Human Resources to enable them to start retrenchment or recruitment processes when necessary

2.Process improvement

Implementation of process improvements for leave and reserve management and disciplinary actions Interacting with Human Resources to enable them to take the necessary action relating to leave and disciplinary actions Streamlining of business processes between Sales Operations and Human Resources specifically relating to job grades and job titles.

3.Labour cost management

Management of overtime cost and deriving plans to minimise and limit overtime expenses to operational minimums Calculating the optimal wage cost for the business Performing a monthly wage cost analysis to identify reasons for variances between optimal and actual cost Distributing wage cost analysis to Operations, Sales, Finance and Human Resources Deriving action plans for wage cost management Communicating plans to various stakeholders and tracking the implementation of these plans and actions Updating ‘live’ wage models to always be able to compare optimal wages with budget & actual Scheduling of leave for direct labour force in accordance with available leave balances


Additional Info:
2 to 5 years

Salary: RR60000 to R85000

Job Reference #: 3164383309

18 Aug 2022;   from: gumtree.co.za

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