Associate Director - Human Resource - Strategic Outsourcing Advisory Consulting Firm

Role Description :

Key expectation from the role would be to support Human Resources function for the organization and its clients as well as provide consulting support to Global In-house Center entities. The role requires the incumbent to have very strong execution skills along with a strong conceptual base.

Key Responsibilities :

- This role will have a dual responsibility of managing HR for our client and also building out the HR function for the Global In-house Centers (Captive Center) that my client will help establish in India.

- Incumbent should be hands-on in managing end to end HR and would be expected to contribute in developing strategies by identifying and researching human resources best practices, contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to the GICs that set here in India.

- This position should have excellent strategic thinking and direction; ensuring that human resources strategies are in line with the culture of the home office of the GIC.

- This role will be expected to work closely with the GIC's that our client brings in to build out key HR practices, including and limited to- Best practice HR policies and procedures, best in class compensation and benefits strategy and execution, manage HR compliance and operations. Establish and maintain strong stakeholder relationships with the client organization.

- Gain the trust of the client and work closely with them to make positive business impacts via the right HR practices.

- The role is expected to understand the challenges of fast growing organizations and be able to come up with a plan to ensure processes are being set up with a long-term view.

- The GIC entities could be of multiple nationalities and cultures.

- It is thus important for the person to understand different cultural nuances and employ different strategy to engage with each entity.

- The role would be expected to implement human resources strategies for GICs by establishing accountabilities, including talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, performance management, compensation, health and welfare benefits, training and development, records

- Help replicate client HCM infrastructure to a GIC environment,

- Building differentiating - Employer of Choice- branding,

- Help clients define, develop and implement HCM infrastructure

- Workshops / pre-sales support.

Requirements :

- A very strong preference to Global In-House Centers (IT & ITES Captives) / consulting experience & start-up phase experience,

- Strong academic background (Top tier business school graduate) with 8-12 years of total experience.

- Would prefer a combination of handling HR in an Advisory Consulting and Business Facing environments preferably in a global IDC or a Captive.

- Proven capability of having effectively managed the function and creating a positive impact.

- Hands-on approach and strong execution skills along with consulting approach.

- Ability to deal with ambiguity; ability to think through and act on different options.

- Discipline to convert strategy into action

- Ability to work with an organization at different stages of growth and mould one's approach according to the need.