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Natasha Davies Group Executive for HR and Transformation Natasha Davies is the Group Executive of Human Resources and Transformation at Denel SOC and is responsible for ensuring that HR strategies are aligned to business objectives. She was appointed her current position in July 2013, but has been with Denel since 2007, starting as a Divisional HR Executive. As a human resources-focused Executive, Natasha serves as the Chairperson of Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme (THRIP); Trustee of Denel Retirement fund (DENRET); Trustee of Denel Medical Benefit Trust (DMBT); Non-executive director of LMT Products (Pty); and is a Member of the Personnel, Remuneration and Transformation Committee of Denel SOC. She completed an Honours degree in Education and Administration; and a Master’s in Commerce from the University of Johannesburg.
COMPANY PROFILE Year founded: 1992
CONTACT INFORMATION
Number of employees: 4 300
Managing Director: Riaz Saloojee
Branches: Denel Aviation and Aerostructures in Kempton Park; Denel Land Systems in
Financial Manager: Fikile Mhlontlo
Range Campus in Bredasdorp, and Denel PMP in Pretoria West.
Human Resources Manager: Natasha Davies
Centurion; Denel Corporate Office and Denel Dynamics in Centurion, Denel Overberg Test Memberships: SACCI and Proudly South African
GENDER EMPOWERMENT AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
GENDER EMPOWERMENT LEVEL Female executive directors
5 to 25%
Female staff members
5 to 25%
Black female executive directors
5 to 25%
Black female staff members
5 to 25%
Denel has implemented equity policies, B-BBEE strategies, mentoring and coaching, skills development programmes aimed at women, maternity leave, and flexible working arrangements into its business structure to allow for women empowerment within the company. There is also a high emphasis on learning and development in a form of leadership, management and supervisory skills development, succession planning, mentorship, executive coaching and employee study assistance. Denel School Outreach Programme (SOP) initiated by the organisation, which seeks to improve the pass-rate achieved by learners through extra tuition in mathematics and science. The programme serves as a feeder to the various Denel bursary programmes. There are a total of 629 learners currently participating in the mathematics and science outreach programme in five provinces. Denel spent over R 12-million on gender empowerment programmes within the organisation. Denel has started an administration learnership for females with disabilities, of which 100 percent are black. The aim is for 70 percent of SOP’s beneficiaries to be black females to create a pipeline for bursaries and internships within the company and to fundamentally change the demographics in this industry; as only 38 percent of female enrolments at tertiary level are in the Science, Technology and Engineering fields, of which only 12 percent graduate. This makes the available pool for recruitment very limited. Denel has a target of 50 percent for other skills development initiatives.
Physical address: Nellmapius Drive, Irene, 0157 Telephone: +27 12 671 2886 Fax: +27 12 671 2750 Website: www.denel.co.za Email address: pamm@denel.co.za
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