Description:

- Head - Human Resources (People, Culture & Leadership)

- Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

- Reports To: COO

- Experience: 35 years (FMCG / High-growth organizations)

- Industry: Personal Care & Beauty / Consumer Products

About the Organization:

A dynamic, high-growth personal care and beauty brand specializing in science-backed, clean, and high-efficacy formulations for skincare, haircare, and body care. The organization thrives in fast-paced environments, emphasizing entrepreneurial spirit, consumer obsession, and collaborative teamwork.

Role Objective:

- Build the people, culture, and leadership foundation to support rapid scale, high performance, and long-term institutional strength.

- This role owns talent acquisition, leadership development, performance culture, and retentionensuring the organization attracts, develops, and keeps top industry talent.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Talent Acquisition & Onboarding:

- Design and execute high-quality hiring strategies across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Product, and Analytics.

- Own the full recruitment lifecycle: role design, interview frameworks, and offer management.

- Build world-class onboarding so new hires ramp up fast and stay long.

2. Culture & Employee Engagement:

- Act as the culture champion.

- Build a high-ownership, high-performance, low-politics environment.

- Design engagement, retention, and grievance systems that are fair, transparent, and trust-based.

3. Performance Management & Leadership Development:

- Build goal-setting frameworks, appraisal systems, and feedback culture.

- Identify high-potential talent and develop leadership pipelines and succession plans.

- Ensure every employee knows what success looks like and how they can grow.

4. Compensation & Rewards:

- Design performance-linked compensation structures.

- Run salary benchmarking for external competitiveness and internal equity.

- Link rewards tightly to results, ownership, and values.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

Experience & Background:

- 35 years in FMCG or high-growth consumer companies.

- Strong experience in talent acquisition, performance management, and culture building.

Skills & Attributes:

- Extremely mature for their age.

- Strong people judgment and integrity.

- Entrepreneurial yet process-driven.

- Can influence founders and leaders, not just employees.

- Passionate about building great companies through great people.

Educational & Professional Credentials:

- XLRI / TISS / IIM / Symbiosis or equivalent top HR school.

- Strong FMCG or high-quality corporate exposure.

What Makes This Role Stand Out:

- This is not an HR support rolethis is a future Chief People Officer / CEO-track role.

- Build the leadership DNA of a high-growth brand.

- Hire and shape next-generation leaders.

- Influence culture at the top levels.

- Grow with the business as it scales nationally.