Senior Manager - HR Business Partner - Real Estate

Job Overview: Senior Manager - HR Business Partner (South India Portfolio)

Organization: One of the leading organizations in real estate

Location: Chennai

Experience Required: 10 to 15 years

Reporting To: Head HR / CHRO

Role Summary:

The incumbent will serve as the Strategic HR Business Partner for the South India portfolio, operating with a high degree of autonomy to partner with senior leadership and drive the end-to-end people strategy across commercial and retail business operations.

Key Responsibilities:

- Partner directly with Business Heads and senior stakeholders to translate business goals into people strategies and provide independent HR advisory support.

- Independently lead the HR agenda across Chennai and Hyderabad, ensuring policy consistency, addressing location-specific challenges, and driving employee experience.

- Oversee annual/long-term manpower planning, analyze manpower costs, and support organizational design, restructuring, and role rationalization initiatives.

- Conduct talent reviews for critical functions, identify high-potential talent, build career development frameworks, and strengthen the leadership pipeline.

- Manage the performance cycle (goal setting, reviews, calibration), drive high-performance culture, and execute proactive engagement and retention strategies.

- Address complex ER issues, manage grievances with confidentiality, and ensure strict compliance with HR policies and governance standards.

- Guide leaders through organizational shifts, leverage HR metrics (headcount, attrition, employee costs, productivity) to build dashboards, and convert data into actionable business insights.