Job Title: Director of People & Culture
Company: Philip Morris South Africa
Palesa Moloi currently serves as the director of people and culture at Philip Morris South Africa.
Before this appointment, she served as cluster HRD for Southern and East Africa at Ipsos.
She previously held several HR leadership roles at Tiger Brands, including HR manager for the supply chain centre of excellence and grains division, portfolio HR manager and enablement, and HR manager for customer and Tiger Brands International, where she focused on HR business partnering, organisational enablement and regional people strategy execution.
Palesa holds an executive coaching certificate from the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Johannesburg.
Work:
2026 – Present Director of people and culture, Philip Morris South Africa
2022 – 2026 Cluster HRD (Southern & East Africa), Ipsos
2020 – 2022 HRM supply chain centre of excellence & grains, Tiger Brands
2019 – 2020 Portfolio HR manager and enablement, Tiger Brands
2017 – 2019 HR manager (customer & Tiger Brands International), Tiger Brands
2016 – 2017 HR manager – grains division, Tiger Brands
2015 – 2016 HR business partner (multi-country Africa region), The Forum Company
2011 – 2015 HR officer, Macmillan Education South Africa
2011 – 2011 HR officer, Unilever
2010 – 2011 HR administrator, Nature’s Choice
2009 – 2011 HR administrator, City of Johannesburg
Education:
2024 – 2026 Executive MBA, business administration and management, Henley Business School Africa
2019 – 2019 Certificate, executive coaching, University of Cape Town
2015 – 2015 BCom, business, management, marketing and related support services, University of the Witwatersrand
2005 – 2009 HRM / business administration and management, University of Johannesburg
About company: Philip Morris South Africa is part of Philip Morris International, a global tobacco and nicotine products company focused on developing smoke-free alternatives and transitioning toward reduced-risk products.
