Senior Manager - Human Resources - Private Equity Firm

Senior HR Manager:

We're looking for a motivated and passionate thought partner who participates in the collective vision of the firm, takes initiative to drive change, mentors the team, and helps cultivate an environment that creates an outstanding employee experience.

Skills and characteristics:

- A leader who values collaboration, compassion, and development of people; with prior experience of steering the people practice for a mid-sized firm (preferably with an international presence)

- A strategic and innovative thinker who is able to translate business strategy into operational and project plans, as well as a highly engaging people strategy

- In-depth knowledge of HR functions (talent management, performance management, branding, compensation benefits, Learning & Development, labor laws, and statutory compliances)

- Holds strong interpersonal relationships and connections in the HR industry

- Ability to work closely with other senior management in India and US

- An ideal candidate should have 5-7 years of core HR experience

Responsibilities:

Vision and Planning

- Partners with the leadership team to understand and translate the organization's business strategy into a structured people strategy to make working at the firm an outstanding experience

- Responsible for cultivating an environment that enables a fast-growing organization to scale excellent performance consistently

- Establishes best in class practices that enable us to scale covering attraction, recruitment, performance management, employee engagement, talent management, and organizational change and development

Talent Management:

- Designs recruitment strategies and provides direction to the recruiting team to meet goals

- Establishes best practices that give us an edge in hiring

- Creates solid metrics; visibility into the cost of hiring and time to hire

- Creates a positive employer brand and awareness in the recruitment market

- Designs strategies to retain employees;

- Analyses attrition to identify causes, reduce unplanned attrition, and increase retention

- Addresses issues by working in tandem with managers/supervisors to develop proactive strategies

Performance management:

- Ensures that our compensation philosophy and performance management processes drive high performance and engagement by:

- Designing and conducting regular reviews of the appraisal process

- Being closely involved in cases of low performance

- Optimizes employee compensation and benefits programs to ensure market competitiveness to reflect our values

- Career Development: Works with leadership to design organizational structures and career paths that improve operations and create new growth opportunities

Talent Development:

Identifies opportunities to develop new competencies within the team thus improving capabilities at all levels of the organization

- Identifies growth opportunities for maturing employees and creates efficient succession and contingency plans

Team engagement:

- Defines and drives a culture that reinforces our mission and values, sustains morale, and accelerates a growth mindset

- Collaborates with and coaches other managers on people management and HR practices to build a culture of high-performance

- Uses intentional, ongoing communication to create connections and excitement (newsletters, socialization check-ins, feedback forums)

HR education, documentation/compliance

- Establishes people-oriented policies and practices that are aligned with, and enhance, our mission and core values, and ensures that they are consistently adhered to.

- Stays abreast of HR trends and ensures HR operations are operating in compliance with various applicable laws and regulations

Administration

- Oversees administrative management of the office

- Sets objectives, and develops staff in the admin team and is a focal point for resolving key administrative issues

- Oversees benefits administration, employee relations, onboarding, policy implementation, employment law compliance, IT oversight, and vendor management