Nagarro - Associate Director - HCM Practice Lead

Associate Director, HCM Practice Lead

Company Description:

We're Nagarro

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale - across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18000+ experts across 36 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in.

Relevant expertise aligned to the role:

Total Experience: 15+ years

Notice Period: Immediate to 90 days

Responsibilities:

- Practice build & maturity: As Global Practice Head, established and scaled HCM practices across Workday, UKG, and SAP SuccessFactors, building the structure, POD/CoE operating model, certification roadmap, and practice wide governance standards.

- Talent & hiring: Partnered with TA and TAG teams to drive hiring strategies, bring in certified talent, reduce time-to-fill, and align capability building with partner mandates. Onboarded various certified vendors globally to scale the talent. Oversaw cross skilling, certification ramps, and career progression frameworks for consultants.

- Strategic partnerships: Spearheaded HCLTech's Workday Sales and Services Partnerships, a significant milestone for an Indian SI, opening new GTM channels, co-sell opportunities, and certification pathways.

- Strategic oversight: Worked with GTM and Presales functions to shape solution strategy, review proposals and RFP responses, lead bid defenses/orals, and ensure delivery guardrails are aligned with commitments.

- End-to-end program delivery: Directed multi geo HCM programs from discovery to go-live and AMS, including integrations/APIs, security, testing, cutover, and biannual release governance.

- Partnerships & ecosystem: Collaborated with alliance teams (Workday, UKG, SuccessFactors) to activate joint KPIs, pipeline generation, and certification targets.

- Innovation & accelerators: Introduced automation and GenAI driven solutions to improve time-to value, quality, and margin in delivery and AMS.

- CXO level engagement: Advisor to program boards and sponsors, leading greenfield implementations, complex transformations, and program recoveries.