P&O Business Partner

Job Description Summary

The role requires to provide strategic business partnering support to Development teams in India. Lead and participate in P&O projects. Support roll-out of strategies and programs to anticipate and meet long-term business needs on talent, organization and culture, leveraging analytics and outside-in approaches.

Job Description

Major accountabilities:

• As P&O Business Partner, be an active key member of the respective leadership teams; establish strong relationships with client group and proactively act upon business needs and requirements. Work closely with the leadership team members on development and implementation of the Business strategy: interpreting the global business environment, bringing an outside-in HR perspective, decoding customer expectations, co-crafting a strategic agenda
• Prioritize, formulate and implement a People Plan that meets business needs (consistent with the global P&O and Development strategy).
• Define required organizational and individual capabilities in order to support business strategy.
• Together with line management, establish Strategic Workforce Planning, including future outsourcing, cross-domain consolidation and footprint evolution as needed in order to achieve business strategy.
• Evaluate organizational set-up effectiveness and ensure smooth transition of operations in line with overall project plan.
• Drive change management and ensure proper communication is in place to support transformation and reorganization efforts.
• Coach and drive leadership team to set up a solid governance structure and operating model for the organization that will enable the achievement of strategic business objectives.
• Drive the cultural agenda
• Drive the talent agenda establishing quality succession planning for critical positions, development plans of key talents and talent strategy to build the leadership pipeline.
• Identify required critical capabilities for the future and establish plans to fill in capability gaps on organizational and individual level. Ensure critical positions are staffed by best-in-class candidates worldwide.

Minimum Requirements:

• 8-10 years’ experience, with at least 6+ years partnering mid-size businesses. Generalist exposure across the full array of HR elements. Ability to communicate effectively across levels (N-1 and below); cultural sensitivity and extensive business partnering experience.
• Skilled in working in a complex global matrixed environment.
• Experience in supporting the business in managing change.
• Post Graduate degree in business or management, MBA or equivalent with Human Resources Specialization

Skills Desired

Business Acumen, Client Counseling, Coaching, Compliance & Risk Management, Connecting The Dots, Data-Driven Decision Making, Influencing, Leadership Development, Managing Change, Matrix Collaboration, Organization Design, Organization Health, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Workforce Planning, Talent Development, Talent Pipelining, Vision & Purpose (Strategy To Story), Waterfall Model