About

A hardworking, Resourceful, Conscientious and an adept HR Professional with high transferrable experience and self-efficacy in building venture relationships and driving forces across diverse, high professional and coachable culture. Skilled in navigating diverse situations applying sound usiness acumen and cultural awareness. A highly motivated Professional and role model with integrity and aptitude for extreme organizational growth

Skills

  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • -HRIS (Workday/ Bamboo HR)
    10
  • Recruitment and selection
    10
  • Strong business acumen
    10
  • Performance Management
  • Effective interpersonal
    10
  • teamwork and organizati
    10
  • -Industrial relations
    10
  • Attention to details
    10
  • -Exceptional IT skills.
    10
  • ENGLISH
    10

Recommendations

mary waturi

 10/13/2025
Provided a score of  
10
  for Duncan Mbatha

Joy Sumba

 9/23/2024
10

"Great"

4 recommendations in total
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Experience

Duncan Mbatha

Work experience
  • Strategy Development & Implementation:
  • Talent Management:
  • Policies, Processes, Systems & Administration:
  • Employee Relations/Experience
  • Recruitment (Resourcing and on-boarding)
  • HR Budgeting
  • Career development programs
  • Developing and implementing HR strategies and initiatives aligned with the overall
  • business strategy (Process Re-engineering)
  • Managing the recruitment and selection process.
  • Overseeing and managing a performance appraisal system that drives high
  • performance
  • Maintaining pay plan and benefits program
  • Assessing training needs to apply and monitor training programs.
  • Compliance
  • HR Planning
  • Data Quality and Leave Management
  • Reward & HR Core Services
  • HR analytics and Calibration
  • Learning & Development
  • Work Design & Classification
  • HR Administration & Compliance

Duncan Mbatha

Work experience
  • Strategic Management
  • Communicating HR strategies in conformity with Business strategies and in compliance.
  • Compliance
  • Industrial Relations, Administration and Compliance for all Business units enforcing the
  • country labor laws.
  • HR Administration (Record Keeping, Policing, time off management)
  • HR Consultant for the business Matrix managers and teams.
  • HR Planning
  • HR need analysis, Head Count Budgeting and management
  • Supply and Demand Forecast (Recruitment and selection)
  • HR Benefits Management (Medical & Pension)
  • Performance Management
  • Implementation of the Organization Key Results strategy for realignment to
  • Departmental Expectation in line with the business focus.
  • Implementing Performance Appraisal systems through Leadership and performance
  • Calendar.
  • Data Quality and Leave Management
  • Ensured data quality for the business is 100% i.e. Payroll
  • Ensured that all employees have leave plans in place with the aim of keeping leave
  • liability low.
  • Working with finance controllers and regional date teams in ensuring HR data is up to
  • date and variance properly explained/supported.
  • Reward & HR Core Services
  • Translate the Business strategic business objectives into remuneration focus areas for
  • the business but within the overall reward philosophy and framework set out by the
  • Group.
  • Managing and support MERIT process. Together with the merit managers, prepare for
  • the annual reviews and increase pool allocations for the platforms and corporate
  • functions. Facilitate, challenge and support in this regard to ensure adherence to set
  • guidelines.
  • Ensuring timely, equitable, transparent, and systematic administration of all HR benefits,
  • entitlements, contracts renewal and termination, performance management,
  • promotions, and other HR activities.
  • Supporting, implementing and administering the effective and timely recruitment
  • processes in the hiring, developing, and retaining the best talents available to support
  • the strategic human resources needs of the office and the organization.
  • On-boarding new employees following best practice guidelines
  • Off boarding exiting employees
  • Supporting current and future business needs through the development, engagement,
  • motivation and retention of human capital (HC Demand & Supply Forecast)
  • Coordinating and supervising the management and maintenance of staff contracts,
  • personnel files, and other employee information.

Duncan Mbatha

Education
  • January, 2021 - September, 2022
  • Fulltime

Duncan Mbatha

Work experience
  • Employee Relations
  • Bridging management and employee relations by addressing demands, grievances or
  • other issues nurturing a positive working environment.
  • Recruitment and selection process.
  • Developing and monitoring overall HR strategies, systems, tactics and procedures
  • across the organization
  • Assessing training needs to apply and monitor training programs
  • Report to management and provide decision support through HR metrics
  • Ensure legal compliance throughout human resource management
  • Time and attendance management
  • Health and safety inspections
  • Archiving and documentation
  • Payroll administration
  • HR demand and supply forecast

Duncan Mbatha

Work experience
  • January, 2019 - December, 2020
  • Fulltime
  • Human Resource Planning HR analytics and Calibration
  • Performance reviews and rewarding
  • HR Demand and Supply Forecast
  • Head count budgeting and HR costing Company HR business processes mapping and
  • elaboration/establishment of internal Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in HR
  • management, control of the workflows in the HR Unit
  • Manage the recruitment and selection process of key roles within the company
  • programs.
  • HR Resourcing
  • Reward and Recognition
  • Developed HR budgets i.e., upfront workforce planning process
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Shortlisting
  • Receiving and reviewing recruitment requests
  • Conducting interviews
  • On boarding.
  • Human Resource Information Management
  • Benchmarking new processes, approaches and technology that continually drive
  • improvements on performance and business results.
  • HR Business Partnering for Technical Department (Provide advice on employee relation
  • issues (including disciplinary and grievance, capability, whistleblowing, etc.). Manage
  • and resolve complex issues when needed.)
  • Compensation
  • Provide technical HR guidance to teams on key HR issues such as policy interpretation,
  • performance management, compensation and benefits, recruitment and retention
  • strategies.
  • Payroll administration
  • Performance reviews and calibration
  • HR policies preparation and implementation (Drafting contracts, Disciplinary policy, PIP
  • policy etc.)
  • Talent management and Mapping.
  • Learning and development
  • Overseeing the roll-out of human resources led organizational development
  • interventions in the business unit.
  • Developing sourcing strategies and market approach, negotiating commercial solutions
  • aligned to business drivers or delivering specified components.
  • Proactively identifying training needs to be integrated to individual plan for talents or key
  • employees and provide full road map of training and development initiatives for the
  • assigned population
  • Develop training plan/budget for the business unit.
  • Nominating executives, senior line management for coaching, and other leadership
  • development.
  • Managing my performance and leadership Calendar
  • Compliance
  • Advised on human resource planning and management in line with organizational
  • policies and legal framework.
  • Provided regular sensitization of staff on the performance management system to
  • ensure it is understood and effectively implemented.
  • Ensured compliance with and adoption of applicable labor and or regulatory
  • requirements
  • Developing and implement policies both mandatory and based on best practice in EA
  • Overseeing all HR (Mandatory services (NSSF, NHIF, Labor, OSHA)
  • Manage relationships with external stakeholders i.e. Unions, Labor departments and
  • External Regulatory bodies impacting on the management of employees in the business
  • unit.
  • Ensured that all evidence requirements for control reviews and audits are supplied
  • timeously.
  • HR Business partnering & support (HR Generalist)
  • Managing employee life cycle according to the HR calendars in strong coordination with
  • regional HR and COE
  • Driving the HR calendar in the Business. Ensure that line managers and decision
  • makers are proactively briefed at the start of major events in the HR (i.e. when the
  • annual remuneration process start, performance management etc.).
  • Headcount and Employment Costs
  • Monitor headcount and employment cost on regular basis, identifying areas of
  • opportunity in terms of optimization of employment costs.
  • Partner with finance to ensure headcount, employment costs and budget is accurate.
  • Compile business cases where additional headcount is required due to business
  • changes, get approval and ensure this is budgeted for in coming year.
  • Time off costing and advising to the HODs for business continuity plan.
  • Achievements
  • Reduced employee attrition / monthly turnover rate to 2%.
  • Supported the business in acquiring ISO certification and in policing
  • Ensured 100% HR business compliance.

Duncan Mbatha

Work experience
  • Human Resource Information System Management
  • Work day new joiners’ recruitment
  • Work day absence management
  • HR administration (Drafting job adverts, separation notices and Certificates, leave
  • management)
  • Work day supervisory organization and hire
  • Training & Development
  • Training need analysis and budgeting.
  • Spearhead trainings and meetings
  • Monitoring trainings training feedback and reports Archiving and documentation
  • Recruitment & Selection (ATS)
  • Recruitment (Screening & shortlisting candidates), Interviewing
  • Service level agreement negotiation with suppliers on outsourced services & schemes.
  • Onboarding of new hires Analyzing and responding to various internal and external
  • queries
  • Work Design & Classification
  • HR analytics & objective setting Interpreting New Policies (Leave policy) HRIS
  • Coaching and systems Update with a view of improved efficiency and adaptability
  • Health and Safety
  • Conducting SHE inspections
  • Generating SHE reports and Feedbacks.
  • Achievement
  • Established and implemented the Human Resource Handbook.
  • Rolled out HR time off management

Duncan Mbatha

Education

Duncan Mbatha

Education
  • October, 2012 - December, 2016
  • Fulltime

Related persons

mary waturi

 10/13/2025
Provided a score of  
10
  for Duncan Mbatha

Joy Sumba

 9/23/2024
10

"Great"

4 recommendations in total
See all recommendations