This role is with one of our portfolio companies.
Function- People / HR
Reporting to- Chief People Officer (CPO)
Location- Hyderabad
Role Overview:
The Head HR is a people-manager role responsible for anchoring company'e end-to-end people agenda. This role acts as the primary architect and executor of scalable HR systems, culture, and capability across a high-growth manufacturing environment.
The person will provide strategic direction, coaching, and quality oversight to the team while personally driving enterprise-wide people initiatives. This role demands equal command of big-picture people strategy and on-ground execution excellence — someone who can translate the CPO’s vision into programmes that measurably impact business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the senior HR interface for the leadership team; advise on workforce planning, organisation design, and structural interventions during rapid scaling.
- Design the team’s operating model, allocating accountability across roles to ensure both strategic and transactional HR needs are met effectively.
- Serve as an escalation point and coach for the People Partners on complex employee relations, stakeholder, and compliance matters.
- Define and own talent acquisition strategy — channel mix, sourcing partnerships, campus linkages, and employer brand positioning in the talent markets.
- Oversee full-cycle hiring quality and turnaround time; hold the People Partners accountable to hiring SLAs and quality metrics.
- Lead capability gap analysis across functions and drive targeted L&D interventions in partnership with external providers and internal SMEs.
- Build a leadership pipeline through structured development programmes and succession planning.
- Own the employee experience lifecycle — from onboarding to exit — ensuring every touchpoint reflects company’s values of safety, excellence, and ownership.
- Ensure robust governance of all HR processes — payroll, HRIS, benefits, statutory compliances, and labour law adherence — with zero critical lapses.
- Own the People dashboard presented to the CPO and leadership team; define key metrics, build narratives, and drive data-led decisions.
- Lead the digitisation of People processes and drive adoption of HRIS/HRMS tools across the organisation.
- Lead the people dimension of organisational change — restructures, new site ramp-ups, policy transitions, and digital HR adoption programmes.
Requirements
- Post-Graduate degree — MBA (HR) or equivalent from a reputed institution.
- 8–12 years of progressive HR experience; minimum 2–3 years in a team leadership or senior HRBP role.
- Manufacturing, Aerospace, Engineering, Automotive, or high-growth startup environment strongly preferred.
- Strong command of Indian Labour Law and statutory compliance
- Proficiency in HRIS/HRMS platforms and HR analytics tools
- Working knowledge of OD frameworks, competency modelling, and L&D design
- Advanced MS Office / Google Workspace skills; ability to build board-level decks and dashboards
Skills Required
- Post-graduate degree, MBA in Human Resources or equivalent, from a reputed institution
- 8-12 years of progressive HR experience
- 2-3 years of team leadership or senior HRBP experience
- Experience in manufacturing, aerospace, engineering, automotive, or a high-growth startup environment
- Strong command of Indian labor law and statutory compliance
- Proficiency in HRIS/HRMS platforms and HR analytics tools
- Working knowledge of organizational development frameworks, competency modeling, and learning and development design
- Advanced MS Office or Google Workspace skills
- Ability to build board-level presentations and dashboards
What We Do
At Elevation Capital, we evaluate and understand the exponential nature of technology, how it evolves, how it affects us, and we invest in ideas. Ideas that will become the future. Our investment choices relate to the individuals we represent in our portfolio. We look for individuals that have a solid vision of the future they want to create and a deep understanding of the technology of their endeavour. The future impact of AI is perhaps the most important issue the human race has ever faced. Instead of passively drifting, we need to steer a course. We at Elevation Capital chart the submerged rocks of the future.
