Regional HR Business Partner - Manufacturing - IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS/XLRI/TISS

Regional HR Business Partner

- An individual collaborator role working in close collaboration with business and HR heads to ensure delivery of an efficient people mandate augmenting employee experience and business productivity.

Role and Responsibilities :

- Strategic partner - Participates in the development of the department's plans and programs as a strategic partner, but particularly from the perspective of the impact on people.

- Partners with business leaders, to enhance the employee experience for all phases of the employment lifecycle (attracting, developing, retaining) within the organization.

- Change Management - In partnership with the HR Leadership; implements effective people strategies for the business that enable the organization to thrive through periods of change and provides group and one-on-one coaching with leaders, managers and employees at the site to support leadership development, business decision-making, human resources management, problem solving and performance management.

- Talent Management - Enable Career Development, Succession Planning, Performance Management - effective management of High Potential employees as well as laggards, Employee Engagement and organizational change processes, HR Specialists and HR Head to maintain a high performance culture.

- Initiates, delivers and communicates company wide and business-specific programs and initiatives, as appropriate, via partnership with HR leadership, and partners with the HR Shared Services team to ensure the region/business groups receive the necessary services, support and communications from centralized HR functions.

- Upskilling of leadership bench strength - Coaches business managers on employee relations best practices in both individual and collective change processes in order to protect the company and the employees.

- Supports the implementation of organizations and cultures that drive innovation and employee engagement and supports the implementation of structures and strategies to improve individual and organizational performance.

- Partners closely with the HR Shared Services team as well as Legal counsel to ensure policies and procedures comply with local and regional legislation and best practices - and are understood and applied consistently by managers as well as employees.

- Oversees necessary administrative processes (i.e., Payroll, Benefits, Data management and employee mobility) to ensure effectiveness and accuracy in implementation.

- Partners as appropriate to resolve all HR policy inquiries and employee relations issues keeping in mind both the needs of the business and employee advocacy.

Core Competencies:

- Strong business acumen, including being naturally data-driven, strategic thinking, and operational excellence

- Strong ethics and high integrity

- Proficient verbal and written communication skills

- Must be articulate, organized, detail-oriented, and have the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-changing entrepreneurial environment

- Passion for Results including decisiveness, sense of urgency and ability to remove obstacles

- Ability to effectively influence change across all levels of the organization as well as deal with ambiguity effectively

- Ability to work autonomously while also possessing excellent cross-group collaboration skills

Skills and Qualifications

- Master degree in Human Resource management from a Tier 1 Institute

- More than 5 years of experience of working in a challenging and dynamic environment

- Experience implementing diverse and high impact HR initiatives to support organizational objectives.

- Excellent influencing, leadership, communication skills - particularly within matrix style organizations.

- Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, based on feedback, stakeholder engagement, trend analysis, etc.

- Experience with engagement intervention in manufacturing set up a plus