VP - HR

Position: VP of Human Resources

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🎯 Role Overview

VP of HR at Ranika

strategic and hands-on leadership role

🏗️ Key Responsibilities

1. Organizational Design & Manpower Planning

• Work with CEO and GMs to define org structures for each division
• Plan annual manpower requirements based on production forecasts and expansion
• Ensure clarity in roles, reporting lines, and decision rights

2. Recruitment & Onboarding

• Set up standardized hiring processes across divisions (including blue-collar, staff, and managerial roles)
• Build a pipeline of supervisors, DMMs, sampling coordinators, and mid-management
• Design structured onboarding programs for factory, sampling, and HO roles

3. Training & Development

• Launch and manage Ranika’s internal training platform
• Coordinate with functional heads to build skill-based training (IE, PPC, Quality, ERP, etc.)
• Lead soft skills, compliance, and leadership development modules for mid-management

4. Performance Management

• Implement KRAs and KPIs for all staff-level and manager roles
• Run structured performance appraisals (biannual or annual)
• Link promotions and incentives to merit, not tenure or personal loyalty

5. Culture, Engagement & Communication

• Build an ownership-driven, professional culture that aligns with Ranika’s growth goals
• Run employee engagement programs across factories and HO
• Mediate employee concerns fairly and confidentially

6. Compensation & Retention

• Benchmark salaries for key roles across the industry
• Design retention plans for high-performers and future leaders
• Ensure transparency and equity in pay practices

7. Compliance & Policies

• Oversee adherence to all labour laws (ESIC, PF, POSH, factory act)
• Ensure all statutory registers, contracts, and records are updated and audit-ready
• Update and enforce employee handbook, leave policy, grievance redressal mechanism

8. HR Systems & Data

• Use HRMS (or ERP HR module) to track attendance, leave, and payroll
• Build monthly dashboards on headcount, attrition, training, and productivity metrics
• Partner with IT/ERP team to digitize HR processes

🧠 Ideal Candidate Profile

• 10–15 years of experience in HR, preferably in 

  manufacturing/export/garment sectors

• Strong exposure to both 

  blue-collar (factory) and white-collar (staff) workforce

• Experience in 

  scaling teams

   from 300–1000+ employees
• Hands-on, proactive leader with the ability to operate at both strategic and ground level
• Fluent in English and Hindi; regional language knowledge a plus

🏆 Why Join Ranika?

• Be a key part of a fast scaling Indian manufacturer
• Work directly with the CEO and leadership team
• Shape the people and culture backbone of one of India’s most ambitious fashion exporters