This feels right - Hamutenya
Adding value to HR practices and functions
Sanlam Namibia newly appointed human resource business partner, Juanitha Hamutenya.
Juanitha Hamutenya’s main responsibility is to provide human resource (HR) advisory and consultancy services to the employees of Sanlam Namibia. After completing a “smooth and impressive” application for the position in December 2022, she got the call for employment in February 2023.
“I couldn’t believe it at first, but the feeling slowly sunk in that I will be working for Sanlam Namibia in a month’s time. I felt all sorts of emotions during my notice month, but the one that tops it all was 'this feels right'.”
As newly appointed HR business partner, Hamutenya's responsibilities and roles include: Coordinating and adding value to HR practices and functions; taking on special projects, and working with legislative and statutory requirements.
She said she enjoys everything about her job at Sanlam.
Everything for her entails using System Analysis Programme (SAP) development software to Sanlam's HR world of work. She added that learning every day alongside a supportive team during her transition is great and makes it even better. Furthermore, Hamutenya, while still new at the company, said she is looking forward to creating good relationships with employees and contributing to HR practices and functions.
Looking ahead and aiming to grow within her career, she said her future plans include learning and shaping HR business partnering in the industry. Hamutenya prioritises the need to assess progress of work while at Sanlam. She does this by asking for regular feedback from her team and those she supplies HR services to.
About Hamutenya
The HR business partner was born and raised in Oshakati. She moved to Windhoek in 2010 to pursue her first honours degree in industrial psychology from the University of Namibia (Unam). She then pursued her second honours in HR management from the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) in 2016. She is now looking to further her studies by pursuing a master’s programme, starting in August.
Her first HR job was at TransNamib on a contract basis and then she got a permanent offer from Old Mutual Namibia, which started in November 2015 until March 2017. Thereafter, she received a growth opportunity from B2Gold Namibia from April 2017 to March 2023. Hamutenya has approximately seven years’ of experience in HR.
“I couldn’t believe it at first, but the feeling slowly sunk in that I will be working for Sanlam Namibia in a month’s time. I felt all sorts of emotions during my notice month, but the one that tops it all was 'this feels right'.”
As newly appointed HR business partner, Hamutenya's responsibilities and roles include: Coordinating and adding value to HR practices and functions; taking on special projects, and working with legislative and statutory requirements.
She said she enjoys everything about her job at Sanlam.
Everything for her entails using System Analysis Programme (SAP) development software to Sanlam's HR world of work. She added that learning every day alongside a supportive team during her transition is great and makes it even better. Furthermore, Hamutenya, while still new at the company, said she is looking forward to creating good relationships with employees and contributing to HR practices and functions.
Looking ahead and aiming to grow within her career, she said her future plans include learning and shaping HR business partnering in the industry. Hamutenya prioritises the need to assess progress of work while at Sanlam. She does this by asking for regular feedback from her team and those she supplies HR services to.
About Hamutenya
The HR business partner was born and raised in Oshakati. She moved to Windhoek in 2010 to pursue her first honours degree in industrial psychology from the University of Namibia (Unam). She then pursued her second honours in HR management from the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) in 2016. She is now looking to further her studies by pursuing a master’s programme, starting in August.
Her first HR job was at TransNamib on a contract basis and then she got a permanent offer from Old Mutual Namibia, which started in November 2015 until March 2017. Thereafter, she received a growth opportunity from B2Gold Namibia from April 2017 to March 2023. Hamutenya has approximately seven years’ of experience in HR.
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