Multifaceted Business Partner

The role of Human Resources Manager is pivotal in spearheading the HR function for Quality & Operations functions at a manufacturing site.

This position provides strategic HR business partnership to the site leadership team, developing and implementing human resources strategy and policy in support of business objectives.

Key responsibilities include managing harmonious industrial relations and ensuring legal/statutory compliance across the site.

• Strategic HR Partner: As Site HR Head, this includes planning, implementing and evaluating employee relations and human resource programs and practices. This involves partnering with business to understand business needs and aligning people strategy to the same.
• Talent Acquisition and Onboarding: Responsible for talent acquisition by providing a talented workforce within time to ensure business continuity. Identifying manpower requirement based on business priorities and planning budget, hiring accordingly. Ensuring best-in-class onboarding experience to new joiners.
• HR Manpower Planning, Budgeting: Assist in budgeting process of all HR items (manpower costs, opex costs) and headcount requirement. Periodically reviewing and monitoring actual spend vis-à-vis approved budgets, optimum utilization of manpower budgets and trend analysis thereby ensuring manpower cost is within budget. Identifying opportunities of savings and realizing periodic savings.
• Performance Management: Driving continual performance management and annual compensation review for the site. Training line managers on goal setting and sharing performance feedback. Enabling business leaders to take appropriate decisions regarding promotions, compensation revisions, etc.
• Talent Management: Implementing periodic talent management reviews and ensuring their development/retention plans are executed. Creating and implementing succession plans for critical roles. Understanding talent priorities of the site, identifying development needs and driving programs to address the same.
• Learning & Development: Promoting a culture of learning and high performance. Identifying training needs, preparation of training calendar and evaluation of the training efficacy. Working with corporate HR team of the business unit to implement various training programs for the site.
• HR Compliance & Statutory Obligations: Responsible to ensure HR legal compliances by monitoring and implementing applicable statutory laws, maintaining records and representing the organization at various associations related to human resources. Liaisoning with various statutory bodies and government agencies like Labour office, Factory Inspector Office, Gram Panchayat, welfare Fund Office and PF to be compliant. Adhering to SOPs & documentation as per cGMP.
• Labour Management: Maintaining a harmonious and productive IR environment. Keeping track of productivity and identifying scope of cost savings. Ensuring all statutory compliances are followed by manpower vendors. Maintaining a healthy and productive work environment, identifying and resolving employee grievances in timely manner. Taking appropriate disciplinary actions if needed as per laid down processes.
• Employee Engagement & Wellbeing: Implementing initiatives and carrying out activities on a day-to-day basis to impact key drivers of employee engagement. Leading wellbeing initiatives at the site with an objective to achieve holistic wellbeing of employees at the site.
• HR Operations: To supervise and review all HR operations pertaining to employee life cycle with an objective of streamlining and bringing in more efficiency.
• Guiding and coaching HR team members to take higher responsibility, effective stakeholder management and develop next line of leaders.
• Supporting in conceptualizing and execution of special HR-related projects to meet specific business needs, from time to time.