HR Business Partner – Manager

Job Description:

  • Own employee relations end to end, including investigations, grievances, conflict, and formal performance processes
  • Run India exits, including documentation, statutory exposure, settlements, and case files
  • Operate the performance framework, including cycle mechanics, calibration, and moderation across offshore teams
  • Run the compensation cycle, apply bands, enforce defensible positions, and provide India market data
  • Own India compliance covering policy, Labour Codes, and POSH
  • Analyze attrition with associated costs and recommend changes
  • Run engagement surveys, manager-owned action plans, and team events
  • Set standards and protect the scope of the HR coordinator
  • Evaluate and advocate for better tools and reshape manually run processes
  • Build the offshore people function and close gaps in compliance, attrition insight, and process documentation
  • Within the first three months, complete a formal employee relations process, calibrate a performance cycle, audit and close India policy/Labour Codes/POSH positions, deliver attrition analysis, run the first engagement survey, and launch team events

Requirements:

  • End-to-end experience running an India termination, including documentation, statutory exposure, settlement, and the final file
  • Experience carrying an investigation or grievance with a contested outcome
  • Experience operating a performance cycle across multiple teams, including calibration and rating moderation
  • Experience running a compensation cycle with bands applied and market data sourced and defended
  • Experience owning India policy and Labour Codes work, including POSH committee, policy, training, and reporting
  • Writing that withstands legal review, including investigation summaries, warning letters, and exit files
  • Experience holding a position against senior stakeholders and changing position when proven wrong
  • Typically five to eight years of experience
  • Nice to have: GCC, offshore delivery centre, or multi-country people experience
  • Nice to have: experience standing up a people function
  • Nice to have: experience with an external payroll and compliance bureau
  • Nice to have: experience in Education, EdTech, or another organisation focused on people’s outcomes

Benefits:

  • Fully remote, anywhere in India
  • Occasional travel for team events
  • Compensation details shared early in the hiring process
  • Real say in selecting the HR technology stack
  • Coordinator underneath you, with team growth as volume justifies
  • Career path from operator to leader
  • Support for proposing and adopting better tools
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