Strategic HR/Business HR & Strategy - IT/Telecom

Context :

In a rapidly growing organisation which is operating in multiple geographies, more often than not; HR functions and leaders tend to become short sighted. Important & long term game changing action items don't get time and attention (or enough). Hence, the Company intends to create a - thinking- role which sits outside the various HR functions/domains but works very closely with them and ensures that they have those important processes/practices ready in advance. By design this role is required to question the existing practices and replace the non-value adding activities with more forward looking practices

Broad Roles & Responsibilities :

- Understand the business requirements and what HR function does currently to address the same. Identify the gaps and work on addressing them

- Work with various HR domains to drive discipline, change and best practices

- Define the future HR roadmap and strategy

- Focus on problems/areas which no other HR function/domain is able to spend time on

- Look at data, identify trends to create opportunities and interventions

- Work on next level projects in diverse areas of interest like, but not limited to

- Evaluation of a new country (including factors like skill availability, cost viability, political and financial stability) for a potential development/delivery center

- Define Company's approach in talent assessment - hiring and later (for decisions like promotion especially for middle management and above levels)

- Sales or Engineering Productivity

- Culture initiatives like driving collaboration

- Employer branding ROI - how to make it quantifiable

- Driving & supporting diversity

Role USP :

- Offers a chance to make a difference, while having the comfort to fail

- Provides the perfect balance between designing and doing

- Perfect opportunity for those who don- t want to worry about here & now fire fighting/operations

Experience :

- 7 to 10 years of experience in a global environment, preferably in multiple areas

Qualification :

- MBA with specialization in HRM

Other attributes :

- Ability to work on multiple projects/assignments

- High on assertiveness and project management

- Detail orientation, ability to read and present numbers/data/trends

- Hands on and willing to invest time in research/evaluations

- Very good communication skills (verbal and written)

- Self-motivated and driven