HT Media - HR Business Partner - XLRI/TISS/MDI

Company Description:

HT Media Ltd., India’s 2nd largest print media company, is transforming itself to become the largest Multi Media Company in the country. The company has been growing phenomenally in the past 2-3 years, with a number of successful launches like Fever 104 (in partnership with Virgin), Mint (in partnership with The Wall street Journal) and HT Mumbai.

The company is one of the few professionally managed and listed companies in the media sector. Its top leadership team includes talent from companies like Whirlpool, Asian Paints, HLL, Pepsi, Nokia, Microsoft, Airtel, Virgin, Hutch etc. Also, there is a growing pool of young leadership from premier Indian B-schools like IIM’s, ISB, XLRI, MDI, FMS etc.

HT Media - Digital:

HT Digital focuses on creating and building brands and businesses in the Internet media space. We aim to combine HT Media’s 84-year old legacy as one of India’s largest and most respected names in the media industry, with the innovation and energy that characterize the Internet space.

Compelling product ideas, creative use of design and intuitive user interface, backed by a knowledgeable sales force and customer service are the hallmarks of HT Digital products. With brands like Hindustantimes.com, Livemint.com, Digital Quotient, Desimartini.com, HTCampus.com and Shine.com in its portfolio, HT Digital promises to be an exciting addition to the HT Media family.

Context:

HT Media - Digital Services has built a solid performance platform in FY13-14 and is now positioned to take great advantage of the opportunity for growth in the market. The performance has been holistic, built on the platform of great products, brands, a focused execution and great people. The HR team has a critical role to play in the future performance story of Digital Business. Critical to our success in FY14-15, is to make big progress on our Talent agenda as an organization .

Scope: HR Business Partner to

- Sales with 400 employees across India, partnering with the Business Head

- Marketing, Product, Analytic, Technology, Service etc organizations with 150 employees partnering the
Functional / Business Heads of each of these functions

Purpose of Role:

- Enable business performance using the levers of Organisation Effectiveness, Talent, Reward and Engagement

Responsibilities:

Strategy and Planning:

- For the Business that the BP supports (tbd), translate the overall plan to leverage the impact locally support and implement so the outcomes are sustained and embedded in the following areas:

- Organisation Effectiveness:Work to ensure that structure, processes and capabilities are in place to support the business strategy.

- Engagement:Develop a deep understanding of engagement drivers and Great Place to work insights to systematically strengthen our organisational performance.

- Talent: Bring the talent strategy alive with a key focus on growing our talent base and strengthening succession plans . Create talent pools / bench internally and externally

Desired Skills, Education and Experience:

- 12+ years HR business partnering experience which covers the full HR functional agenda.

- Preferably worked in high process oriented environment

- Has experience of working in a multistakeholder environment

- Should have experience of supporting large Sales group in the course of the 10 years experience.

- Demonstrated coaching ability and experience with leaders is essential

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education: Btech and MBA ( HR ) from XLRI / TISS / Symbioss / XISS / MDI only