Vice President - Human Resource - Manufacturing

Brief Job Profile :

Purpose :

- Provide HR support for PCH or BU Heads to collectively deliver business results

- Drive existing HR programs & initiate additional programs to ensure talent development, retention, performance enhancement and employee engagement

- Work in tandem with IR colleagues and other stake-holders in innovatively addressing HR & IR issues

Strategic Roles :

- Align HR's functions & tasks with strategic intent of each PCH or BU Head

- Ensure retention and furtherance of organizational culture and values

- Assess manpower-related risks for businesses and develop mitigation plans

Operational Roles :

Manpower Planning, Talent Acquisition :

- Discuss with PCH or BU Head to build a contour of long-term business plans, emerging manpower needs

- Constantly monitor existing and emerging skills gaps, discuss plans for Individual Development or plans for acquisition of outside talent

- Co-own with Business Managers the process for selection, orientation, executive compensation, succession planning and such HR matters

Talent Management :

- Devise programmes along with business to ensure that employees deliver on agreed KRAs (employee engagement, counseling, training and such)

- Review and, as needed, effect amendments to existing PMS to work as a transparent tool to identify performers, training needs, as an objective template to deal with laggards etc; also, ensure that reward / award mechanisms are effective

Plan appropriate OD or T&D interventions : through internal resources or by enlisting external help

- As needed, commission compensation & benefits surveys, and, make a business case for effecting compensation corrections

- Build a plan for succession across key positions to ensure continuity in business performance

Policies :

- Review existing policies and effect corrections as needed; fine-tune such that objectives of policies are achieved

- Review other policies and make them employee-friendly, administration-friendly and contemporary

Tactical Roles :

- Maintain relationships with internal stakeholders like BU Heads, Line Managers

- Monitor and control OpEx of HR

Brief Candidate Profile :

Any Graduate : MBA in HR or MSW

- Preferably 48-to-52 years of age.

- Candidates with past work experience in providing strategic HR support to multiple divisions or business especially in manufacturing domain

- Should have handled HR (and some IR) roles in a company with at least 3,500 employees and at least a Rs 4,500 Crores turnover

Key Domain Competencies. :

- Contemporary HR Practices

- Labour Laws & Legal Compliance

- Business orientation; external environment awareness strategic planning; technology orientation; change management

Key Behaviourial Competencies. :

Leadership / Initiative :

- Critical Thinking Skills; Analytical, Planning and Negotiation Skills. Decision Making

- Impact & Influence; Team Leadership; Communication; High on Integrity

- Handle diversity; entrepreneurship

Key Deliverables :

- Leadership pipeline through internal grooming or acquisition (ensuring that business KRAs are not affected due to lack of adequate and right manpower,should have created a system of mitigating manpower-related risks)

- Higher Productivity through structured interventions; making PMS effective

- Control OpEx at agreed levels - without affecting operations