Vegrow - Lead - HR Business Partner

Vegrow - Lead HRBP

ABOUT VEGROW:

Vegrow focuses on matchmaking across demand and supply for fruits, aggregating multiple channels (wholesalers/semi-wholesalers, modern trade, and general trade) in 100 cities on the demand side and 30,000+ farmers on the supply side. Through its unique community advisory approach, Vegrow digitally engages with farmers across 400+ production pockets and helps them align with market expectations and get better yield, thereby higher income. It processes more than 400 tons of fruits daily. The company has grown significantly in the last 12 months with industry leading gross margins of ~20%. The growth has been unlocked on the back of its deep tech and data stack across the value chain. It has built capabilities to harness farmer chatter, estimate farmland produce and measure demand across Tier-I, Tier-II and Tier-III markets.

Vegrow founders are extremely passionate about Agri-domain and come from a very strong pedigree of IITs and have a rich corporate and start-up experience along with domain expertise owing to their stint in ITC, Urban Company, AgroStar and Chronus. It is a fast-growing company and has scaled to over 450-member young and passionate team with a very strong leadership who are ex-entrepreneurs with a blend of Agri & non-Agri expertise coming from successful organisations viz. Godrej, Reliance, ITC, Microsoft etc.

The company has raised US$46M in its Series C primary and secondary funding in January 2024. This new funding round has been led by GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, with significant participation from existing investor Prosus Ventures and continued support from Matrix Partners India, Elevation Capital, and Lightspeed.

Role: Lead HRBP

Location Bangalore

About the Role: The HRBP will be responsible to manage the end to end employee lifecycle from hire to retire. She/He will act as a strategic partner, change agent and an employee advocate for the business.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Managing HR Generalist responsibilities such as selection, performance management, people planning, employee engagement etc.

- Partner with senior leadership to develop and implement effective people programs and initiatives that will support the strategic growth of a particular line of business

- Provide Talent Management expertise by supporting the business identify HiPo and successors for key roles.

- Promote the right culture that aligns with the business goals and objectives

- Build strong relationships with employees and stakeholders.

- Provide comprehensive HR support in day-to-day activities.

- Conduct Employee connects and create appropriate plan of action.

- Work on various high impact strategic HR Projects.

- Ensure 100% adherence to labour laws and compliance.

Skills and Competencies:

- Experience in managing end to end Human Resource processes such as selection, Onboarding, Employee Lifecycle, Exit and post-exit formalities.

- Strong collaboration, execution, problem solving and influencing capability

- Ability to work in a fast-paced , ambiguous environment

- Ability to work independently to achieve results.

- Knowledge of labour and employment laws

- Attention to detail and strong analytical skills

- Strong Communication and Presentation skills with expertise in MS Office

Experience & Qualifications:

- MBA in HR from reputed School (Tier I /II )

- Relevant experience of at least 4 yrs (at least 2 yrs in a startup environment: Retail / -Tech/ Supply Chain /Telecom will be preferred)

- Should have seen 0 to 1 Journey

Why work with us?

At VeGrow we promise to maximise what you care about the most. You will get an opportunity to work in a highly collaborative, empowered environment which will allow you to learn , experiment and grow.

Here every employee is encouraged to be audacious, innovative, entrepreneurial, purpose driven in order to create a legacy of their own.

So come and be a part of this exciting journey where you get an opportunity to unlock your potential so You Grow and together ' VeGrow'.