upGrad - HR Business Partner - Sales Domain

About Us

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

upGrad is the No.1 Start-up in India, as per the LinkedIn Top Start-ups 2020 list. This is the third year in a row that upGrad has been featured as one of the Top Start-ups by LinkedIn after 2018 and 2019

upGrad has won the title of ET Best Education Brand 2020

upGrad made it to the GSV Global EdTech 50 List 2020

upGrad won the 'Best Communication and Teaching Platform' in the Education Innovation Awards 2020 by Entrepreneur India

Received - Takshila Award- by the 3AI Pinnacle Awards 2020 for upGrad's programs in AI, Analytics and Data Sciences

Received - Best Corporate Training Programme- by the 10th Annual Indian Education Awards 2020

upGrad's Android App received the award under - Innovative Initiative- at the mBillionth Awards 2020

Received IAMAI - Best Tech for Education- 2019

Awards under the - Best Education Brands- by Economic Times in 2018

Most Innovative Companies in India' by Fast Company in 2017

upGrad ranks as the fastest-growing Ed-tech company and overall 7th among all Indian industries, in terms of revenue, as per The Economic Times and Statista ranking

upGrad has ranked amongst the Top 50 in the FT Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies 2021 List.

Role and responsibilities:

The role directly reports into the CHRO:

- The HRBP shall work and partner with the sales team to develop, implement and drive results increasing organizational effectiveness and efficiency for sales workforce.

- This role includes, increasing workforce capability, improving organizational design and structure, providing change leadership, strategic staffing, talent management /succession planning and supporting day-to- day operations as well as on-going process improvement.

- Partner with business on organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and skills assessment

- Provide management coaching to build leadership capabilities to address and resolve employee issues.

- Participates in evaluation and monitoring of training programs to ensure success.

- Review the sales policies, processes, rewards, and recognition schemes to benchmark and implement the best practices.

- Drive and lead the agenda on employee engagement.

- Responsible for the end-to-end life cycle management and guiding unit HR for sourcing and hiring strategies, performance management, compensation etc.

- Provides day-to-day performance management guidance to line management (e.g., coaching, counselling, career development, disciplinary actions).

Requirements:

- 5-12 years of work experience in an aggressive setup

- Preferably MBA in HR.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills; and attention to detail.

- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Good stakeholder management skills

- Prior Experience in business partnering with the sales population