Head - Human Resources - Retail/FMCG

Head - HR

Manpower Planning & Talent Acquisition :

- Identifying manpower gaps across the organization and working proactively towards closing positions in the organization at a rapid pace

- Understanding the go forward business plan and preparing an organisation chart that supports the business plan and making critical hires ahead of time

- Developing and implementing a strong review and performance appraisal mechanism

- Working towards building a healthy organizational culture that inculcates the habit of trust, integrity, confidentiality, positivity and a high on energy environment

- Manpower Reconciliation with Finance during the annual manpower planning cycle, to ensure sanctity of budgeted numbers against actual numbers

- Liaison with HR Senior Managers and Business and identify positions for hiring in business within budgeted numbers

- Leading a team to handle recruitment of all vacancies Pan India

- Assessment of candidates based on tools like competency-based interviews

- Ensured headcount targets are met within cost & lead time parameters

- Ensuring the Turnaround Time is as per the stipulated SLAs while ensuring quality

- Effective utilization of internal and external sources of recruitment like internal Job Portals, consultants, employee referrals, job sites etc. to attract the best talents

- Offer communication & timely closure of positions involving rigorous follow up with line managers & candidates

- Play a key role in implementing a centralized Recruitment process outsourcing setup and centralizing the recruitment operations for all India.

- Maintain key hiring metrics for measuring efficiency of hiring at regular time intervals (TAT,

- Source Utilization, Metrics for measuring Cost of Hire & Conversion Ratio); analysing hiring gaps and ensuring hiring to get desired quality and cost

- Maintain & Publish Key trackers like Open position tracker, Pipeline tracker, TAT tracker etc.

- Standardize the process of recruitment post set up of centralized Recruitment process outsourcing through liaison with other HR Business partners.

Recruitment Areas of work and Onboarding :

- Plan and execute the task of hiring from campus

- Enhance and develop online evaluation portals

- Design and manage effective and smooth on boarding process for new hires to ensure their acclimatization to the organization to create a good joining experience

- Develop lateral induction for new joiners in Managerial cadre

Compensation and Policies :

- Design New policies and implement for new grades and verticals

- Conduct Policy workshops, PMS workshops for employees

- Compensation revision restructuring for all verticals

Compliances :

- Conduct HR audits relating to compliances and HR processes

- Effective cost utilization through closure of recruitments only through referrals

Training and Development :

- Design and implement Induction module

- Design and deliver Individual Development plan as part of employee retention.

- Identify training needs and thereby develop content for training interventions that meet capability needs and business objectives

- Design and organize functional capability building workshop on taxation and arrange other external technical trainings.

- Redesign developmental interventions like Essential Competency Acquisition. Cross functional projects, case studies, Officer Exchange program

- Identify internal training needs and implement across the organization.

Engagement initiatives :

- Closely work with the Line Managers in creating avenues for engagement

- Design and conduct Employee engagement survey and analysis of the survey and share with top management and implement action plans

- Introduce engagement initiatives like pedometer challenge, achievers talk, new Rewards and recognition scheme etc.

- Drive yearly performance management and Increment cycle

- Formulate internal job posting policy to drive performance

- Manage employee life cycle process for Managerial cadre and handle employee queries and grievances

- Administer salary revision and variable pay out for managerial cadre

- Maintain reports on compensation, Variable pay and analysis on Compensation and policy benchmarking exercise

- Analysis and Reporting for Hiring Cost, Manning data, Attrition analysis

Organization Communication :

- Conceptualize and execute platforms of communication to enforce a clear upward and downward communication within the organization

- Develop problem solving and performance monitoring platforms on a timely basis likes CFT (cross functional training) meetings, mid-day meet and other review meeting

- Develop and conduct informal buddy chats with employees to understand and resolve their queries and concerns.