Head of Human Resources, India

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

We are seeking a Senior HR Leader with deep expertise in industrial relations, employee relations, and enterprise people strategy to operate effectively in a complex matrix environment and support growth and transformation agendas.

This role requires a strategic, commercially astute HR partner who can shape workforce and organization strategies, balance performance and governance, and act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership. The individual will play a critical role in enabling scale, productivity, and leadership effectiveness across the business.

The ideal candidate is driven, resilient, enterprising, agile, and highly motivated, with a proven track record of delivering measurable business outcomes in fast-paced, evolving organizations.

RESPONSIBILITIES：

• Act as a strategic people partner to the India Leadership Team, enabling growth, productivity, and disciplined cost management.
• Translate business strategy into India-specific workforce, capability, and operating plans.
• Lead HR and Industrial Relations across all manufacturing sites, ensuring stable operations and compliant labor practices.
• Lead union and employee relations strategy, managing negotiations, disputes, and sensitive cases with credibility and sound judgment.
• Partner with leadership on expansion, restructuring, productivity improvement, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Drive organization design, workforce planning, and change management to support business transformation.
• Build leadership capability and succession pipelines across manufacturing and commercial functions.
• Shape a high-performance, value-led, and inclusive culture with strong governance and ethical standards.
• Partner with HR COEs on India rewards, performance management, and policy frameworks aligned with market and global standards.
• Lead and develop the India HR team, driving operational excellence, data-driven decisions, and cross-functional collaboration.

Keys to Success

• Trusted strategic partner to the India leadership team, influencing decisions with commercial and workforce insight.
• Sustains stable manufacturing operations through effective industrial relations, compliance, and risk management.
• Delivers measurable impact on productivity, cost discipline, and workforce effectiveness during growth and transformation.
• Builds strong leadership bench strength and succession for critical manufacturing and commercial roles.
• Leads a high-performing HR team while embedding a value-driven, compliant, and accountable culture.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• A team of 12-16
• Sets organizational priorities and allocates resources; executes department business plans
• Has team leadership, performance management and people development responsibility to build strong teams

Requirements and Preferred Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Law, or a related discipline; Master’s/MBA preferred.
• 12-15+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, with significant exposure to manufacturing and industrial relations in India.
• Demonstrated experience leading HR in multi-site manufacturing environments with unions and complex labor laws.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate business strategy into people, cost, and capability outcomes.
• Proven credibility partnering with senior leaders and navigating matrix, transformation, and high-change environments.
• Strong analytical skills and experience leveraging HR data to drive business decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and multicultural environment.