Chief Human Resources Officer

Leadership

• Partner with CEO and leadership team to design and execute the people strategy aligned with the company’s transformation journey.
• Build organizational capability for consumer retail, digital-first, and fashion-driven businesses while sustaining strengths in Manufacturing, Distribution and wholesale operations.
• Lead change management and cultural transformation to foster innovation, agility, and customer-centricity.
• Sustain harmony and operational excellence across multiple manufacturing plants (spread geographically across India and abroad) and supply chain assets

Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning

• Build a future-ready workforce with expertise in retail, fashion, merchandising, supply chain, and digital marketing.
• Develop succession planning, leadership development, and capability- building programs for key roles.
• Attract top industry talent while upskilling existing employees to adapt to new business models.
• Establish robust people processes across the organisation

Organization Design & Transformation

• Redesign org structure to balance wholesale operations with emerging retail & apparel verticals.
• Strengthen HR processes across the Organization
• Define HR policies, governance, and performance frameworks to support a multi-channel business.
• Foster collaboration between existing teams and new business units.

Culture & Engagement

• Shape a high-performance, entrepreneurial, and consumer-obsessed culture.
• Drive employee engagement programs tailored to a young, creative workforce
• Champion Employee Value proposition, diversity, equity, and inclusion as business priorities.

HR Operations & People Practices

• Oversee compensation & benefits, performance management, and compliance across all units.
• Implement digital HR systems for scalability and workforce analytics.
• Strengthen compliance, workforce governance, and global audit readiness covering internal and external stakeholders
• Standardize HR processes to improve efficiency and employee experience.

Learning & Development

• Establish learning academies for Operations, digital commerce, and leadership.
• Partner with external institutions to build talent pipelines in design, Channel & Retail management & emerging business models and routes to market

Employer Branding & Social Impact

• Transform the company as an employer of choice in retail and lifestyle categories.
• Drive CSR initiatives focused on youth, community development, and sustainability in fashion.

Key Attributes, Skills & Experience

• 20+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, preferably in consumer goods, retail, lifestyle, or apparel industries
• Full time Master’s degree in HR / Personnel Management
• Hands-on, high-integrity HR leader with strong people orientation and business acumen, patience, affable, self driven
• Proven track record of leading transformation in scaling organizations.
• Strong background in talent strategy, organizational culture, and large- scale HR transformations.
• Ability to work closely with entrepreneurial promoters and professional leadership teams.
• Passion for building people-driven organizations that balance scale with agility.
• Knowledge of statutory and regulatory aspects related to labour.