Manager - People & Culture - Manufacturing & Construction Firm

About the Role :

- Position: People and Culture Manager (full-time role)

- Must be eligible to work in India

- Location: Bangalore.

- Travel across India; Up to two weeks a month (urban and rural locations).

- Minimum 10+ years of work experience in a HR function and at least 3+ years in a HR leadership role.

- Experience in managing HR for a wide variety of teams including highly skilled technology employees in urban environments and unskilled and semi-skilled workers in rural and remote locations.

- Expected qualifications: A bachelor's degree is minimum; an advanced degree is preferred and can come from a variety of programs, including Business Administration (MBA in HR), Rural Management, Public Policy, Public Administration, Development Studies, Public Health, etc.

- Language requirements: Excellent written and oral communication skills in English; good conversational abilities in Hindi.

Job Description - You shall:

- Be responsible for managing the People and Culture team and the entire People and Culture function at the organization, covering all aspects including recruitment, talent management, retention, benefits, contracting and legal, IT, and other HR sub-functions.

- Build successful channels and develop creative approaches for identifying and recruiting high-quality candidates, including broadening the pool of talent.

- Work with organizational leadership and clients in mapping hiring requirements based on upcoming projects and annual implementation plans.

- Actively engage with program managers, engineering and operations teams, and other internal stakeholders to solve people-related challenges.

- Develop and regularly review organizational processes and policies that are in line with People and Culture best practices, labor and tax laws.

- Successfully engage with unskilled and semi-skilled workers in organization deployments to build consensus and ensure a safe working environment.

- Ensure People and Culture-related documentation of the company's team is organized and accurate, backed up, and fully compliant.

- Structure compensation benchmarking for all roles aligned to industry standards.

- Effectively communicate People and Culture policies to all staff across different programs.

- Improve employee retention and satisfaction.

- Drive the performance management systems in alignment with organizational needs.

- Coordinate with team leads to design individual KPIs/KRAs and targets and goals and ensure that they are in line with the organization's goals.

- Develop and implement the annual increment and performance cycles, with appropriate incentives to reward high-performing and high-potential employees.

About You:

- You are a first principles thinker.

- Have worked with multicultural teams with diverse backgrounds.

- Outstanding interpersonal skills and an ability to build authentic relationships

- You love traveling and are comfortable in a fast-paced early-stage startup.

- Proficient at using Microsoft Office, Google suite and HRMS tools and platforms.

- Strong long-term alignment with the organization's mission of expanding enthusiastic to do whatever it takes for delivery.