Chief Human Resource Officer

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic HR & Business Partnership

• Partner closely with the CEO, promoters, and leadership team to translate business strategy into a robust people agenda.
  • Act as a trusted advisor on organization design, leadership effectiveness, succession planning, and transformation initiatives. • Enable scaling of the organization in line with growth, acquisitions (if any), and new businesses/geographies.

2. Leadership Development & Succession Planning

• Build a strong leadership pipeline across corporate and manufacturing locations.
  • Drive structured succession planning for CXO, functional heads, and critical roles. • Design and deploy leadership development programs for senior, mid-level, and plant leadership.

3. Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding

• Lead leadership and critical talent hiring in partnership with business heads.
  • Strengthen employer branding to attract high-quality leadership and technical talent. • Institutionalize assessment frameworks for hiring and promotions.

4. Performance Management & Rewards

• Drive a high-performance culture with clear goal setting, KPIs, and outcome-based performance management.
  • Align compensation, incentives, and long-term rewards with business performance and shareholder value. • Ensure market competitiveness while maintaining internal equity and cost discipline.

5. Industrial Relations & Manufacturing HR

• Oversee HR operations across plants, ensuring stable industrial relations, statutory compliance, and productivity.
  • Partner with operations leaders to improve workforce capability, engagement, and shop-floor leadership. • Proactively manage unions, employee relations, and change management.

6. Culture, Values & Engagement

• Strengthen organizational culture aligned with promoter vision, values, ethics, and governance.
  • Drive employee engagement, communication, and change initiatives across levels. • Act as the custodian of culture during periods of growth and transformation.

7. Governance, Compliance & ESG

• Strengthen organizational culture aligned with promoter vision, values, ethics, and governance.
  • Drive employee engagement, communication, and change initiatives across levels. • Act as the custodian of culture during periods of growth and transformation.

8. HR Digitization & Systems

• Lead HR digitization initiatives including HRMS, analytics, and data-driven decision-making.
  • Use workforce data to improve productivity, retention, and capability planning.

Candidate Profile

Experience & Background

• 18-25+ years of progressive HR leadership experience.
  • Prior experience as CHRO / Group HR Head / Senior HR Leader in: • Manufacturing / Metals / Power / Infrastructure / Industrial / Process industries. • Strong exposure to promoter-driven, Indian listed organizations. • Experience handling multi-location plants and corporate HR.

Core Competencies

• Strategic thinking with strong execution capability.
  • High maturity in working with promoters, boards, and senior leadership. • Deep understanding of industrial relations and manufacturing HR. • Proven ability to drive transformation without big-bang disruption. • High integrity, maturity, and long-term orientation.

Personal Attributes

• Balanced, grounded, and credible leader.
  • Strong influencing skills with a collaborative approach. • Ability to build trust across promoters, leadership, and workforce. • Long-term mindset aligned with institution building.