Dennis Mugabe
Kampala
Summary
Dennis Mugabe is an accomplished People and Culture expert and Consultant with over 10 years’ experience, bring extensive expertise in driving organizational success through strategic human capital initiatives with a robust background in fostering a positive workplace culture, enhancing employee engagement, and implementing cutting edge human capital best practices in achieving excellent talent management and organizational development.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Regional Human Capital Business Partner
Stanbic Bank Uganda
1 2020 - Current
- Building relationships, delivering impact to client groups, and leveraging experience and core People team to solve critical business problems and complex challenges
- Executing business-aligned people strategy by working in partnership with client groups to understand what must be achieved and prioritized, and working with broader People team and business to build and deliver solutions
- Fostering the future of work at the Bank proactively; and building programs to engage, retain and develop employees throughout their careers.
- Coaching and developing operation team leaders and managers in change management, building high-performance teams, understanding, and improving engagement, best practices in communication, and navigating complex team member relations and terminations
- Partnering across Total Rewards, People Operations, People Tech and Data, People Development, Talent Acquisition, and key business stakeholders to ensure success in employee experience end to end
- Supporting strategic workforce planning while balancing intentional organizational design, hyper-growth headcount plans, and constant change
- Effectively managing constant change across business through communication, advocacy, collaboration, and planning
- Acting as a change management expert and educating key business stakeholders in building stronger muscle for managing change
- Advising on rewards and compensation design by partnering directly with the bank’s Total Rewards and Talent Acquisition teams to understand the Bank’s philosophy, strategies, and data that will drive culture, engagement, and understanding, alongside ensuring internal pay parity and transparency
- Deploying people programs such as performance, compensation, development, and other initiatives by leveraging on change champions across business units, gaining leadership buy-in and understanding and building internal communication plans
- Updated and resolved incidents and managed accessorial charges objectively while maximizing profit
- Implemented innovative programs to increase employee loyalty and reduce turnover
Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Huawei Technologies
12.2016 - 01.2020
- Served as a strategic partner to business units, by aligning HR business objectives to departments, employees and management in designated business units
- Served as a first point of contact/ support to Heads of department on HR enablement consultant, especially on talent, resourcing, Organizational development and performance management, in addition to providing tailored business solutions to respective client departments among others.
- Enabled Huawei people plan and philosophy across all business units
Human Resources Officer
MTN SEA IT HUB MS Project
12.2015 - 12.2016
- As a Project Human Resources Administrator, my role was to serve and to provide end to end solutions to all HR functions, Governance and Administration function to the project as below
- Strategic workforce planning aimed at achieving stated organization objectives
- Developing and implementation of HR business plans aligned to project strategies
- Developing and reviewing of job descriptions as well as conducting job analysis
- Talent acquisition and retention management
- Computation of Human Resource (HR) metrics and report
- Implementing and monitoring onboarding processes as well as exit processes
- Administration of entitlements like benefits, insurance schemes, incentives and remunerations
- Coordinating leave management process to ensure compliance to leave administration guidelines and procedures
- Developing, interpretation and implementing of HR policies/Manuals and procedures
- Employee engagement
- Performance management and Rewarding
- Talent management aligned to organization’s strategies and business plan
- Training and development by Identifies training needs that are of strategic importance to business
- Implementation and overseeing of succession plans to ensure continuity of key business positions
- Ensuring devotion and compliance to Occupational Safety and Health at premises
- Due diligence to Labour laws and Regulations (Employment Act, OSH Act …)
- Payroll / salary administration, Overtime and Incentive/Bonus computation and processing
- Employee relations management including grievance and complaints management
- Human resource welfare management and coordination
- Maintaining and updating of human resources information database
- Organization Development | Change Management and Culture management
- Governance and administrative management
- Any other business related to the position as maybe assigned.
Education
PGD Human Resource Management and Development - Human Resource Management and Development
Uganda Management Institute
Kampala Uganda 01.2014 - 04.2015
Bachelor's Degree in Development Economics - Economics, Development, Organisational Management
Makerere University
Kampala Uganda 01.2007 - 04.2011
Master’s in Management Studies – Ongoing - Business Administration and Management
Uganda Management Institute
Kampala Uganda 01.2023 - Current
Skills
Performance Management
Startegic Resourcing
Talent Management and Development
Adaptive and strategic Leadership
Leadership Development
Problem Solving
Organization Design and Transformation
Employee Engagement
Risk and Control Management
Compensation and Benefits Management
Payroll Management
Data analytics
Human Resources Information System (HRMIS / HRIS)
Learning and Development
Employment Law and Policy compliance and formulation
Project Management
Interpersonal Communication
Employee Relations
Certification
Adaptive Leadership for VUCA Challenges
Linkedinusername
mugabe-73000827
References
Gloria Nalubowa,
Head, Human Capital
ECO Bank Uganda
gloria.nalubowa@gmail.com
+256 774 306 666
James Damulira
Regional Manager
Stanbic Bank Uganda
damuliraj@stanbic.com
+256 776 610 441
Paul Okello
Human Resource Manager
City Bank Uganda
Okellopaul02@gmail.com
+256 782 062 845
Languages
English, Kiswahili, Luganda, Runyakitara, Lusoga
Native language
Timeline
Master’s in Management Studies – Ongoing - Business Administration and Management
Uganda Management Institute
01.2023 - Current
Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Huawei Technologies
12.2016 - 01.2020
Human Resources Officer
MTN SEA IT HUB MS Project
12.2015 - 12.2016
PGD Human Resource Management and Development - Human Resource Management and Development
Uganda Management Institute
01.2014 - 04.2015
Bachelor's Degree in Development Economics - Economics, Development, Organisational Management
Makerere University
01.2007 - 04.2011
Regional Human Capital Business Partner
Stanbic Bank Uganda
1 2020 - Current