Role Overview:

Master search is retained by a globally established professional services and business consulting leader with more than 12000 professionals across 30 countries and about 100 offices, serving a distinguished portfolio of global enterprises. Its integrated portfolio spans technology, AI, digital transformation, data and analytics, business performance, finance, risk and compliance, internal audit, operations and related advisory services.

As the organization enters its next phase of growth and transformation in India, we are seeking an exceptional CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER to lead the India people agenda and serve as a strategic member of the senior leadership team. The CHRO will report to the India CEO with a strong global interface to the Global HR leadership and business leadership teams.

Key Mandate:

- Partner with the India CEO and senior business leaders as a strategic adviser on people, organization and business performance.

- Translate business strategy and growth priorities into a differentiated India people strategy.

- Build a robust leadership and succession architecture across business-critical roles.

- Strengthen the organization's ability to attract, develop and retain high-caliber consulting, technology, analytics and professional-services talent.

- Shape organization design, operating models, workforce planning and productivity in response to evolving business requirements.

- Strengthen performance management, career architecture and rewards to reinforce accountability and high performance.

- Build future-ready capabilities across consulting, technology, AI, digital transformation, analytics and leadership.

- Drive a consistent, inclusive and high-performance culture while preserving the professional standards and values expected of a global consulting organization.

- Use people analytics and workforce insights to improve the quality and speed of leadership decisions.

- Lead HR transformation, process effectiveness and the evolution of the employee experience.

- Work seamlessly across India and global leadership structures, balancing local business priorities with global standards and expectations.

The Leadership Challenge:

The successful leader will operate at the intersection of business growth, professional talent and organizational transformation. This is not a traditional HR operations mandate. It requires an executive who understands the economics of professional services, the importance of talent leverage and the relationship between leadership quality, client delivery, productivity, growth and profitability.

The CHRO will be expected to bring both strategic perspective and execution discipline, moving comfortably from boardroom-level people strategy to critical talent decisions and organization-wide transformation. The role demands influence without relying solely on hierarchy, given the organization's global and matrixed operating environment.

The Ideal Profile:

We are looking for an accomplished HR executive with significant experience in professional services, consulting, technology services, global capability organizations or similarly talent-intensive businesses. The ideal candidate will bring:

- Strong commercial and business acumen, with a clear understanding of how people strategy drives business outcomes.

- Proven experience partnering with CEOs and senior business leaders.

- Experience leading HR for a complex, matrixed and geographically distributed organization.

- Strong leadership capability across talent, succession, organization effectiveness and culture.

- A track record of leading transformation, scaling organizations and building future-ready capabilities.

- Sophisticated understanding of senior talent markets and leadership development.

- Strong data orientation and the ability to convert workforce insights into business decisions.

- Global stakeholder management experience and the ability to influence across functions and geographies.

- Exceptional executive presence, credibility, maturity and communication skills.

- The ability to operate as both a strategic adviser and a hands-on change leader.

Why This Role:

This is an opportunity to shape the people and leadership architecture of a globally respected professional-services organization at an important stage of its India journey. The successful CHRO will have direct influence on business strategy, leadership capability, organizational effectiveness and the future talent model of a high-caliber global enterprise.

The role offers the opportunity to work with senior India and global leadership, influence a sophisticated professional workforce and build an HR function that is deeply integrated with business growth, transformation and long-term organizational value.