Head Industrial Relations & Manufacturing HR (General Manager)
Location: Corporate office Mumbai
Reporting to: CHRO

Role Purpose
Heading the Industrial Relations and HR operations agenda across the manufacturing locations, ensuring a stable, productive and engaged workforce while building a high-performance employee culture. The role will be responsible for IR strategy, union management, workforce productivity, labour compliance, grievance management, disciplinary processes, and plant HR, while partnering closely with business and plant leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

A. Industrial Relations & Employee Relations
- Develop and implement the organisations Industrial Relations strategy aligned with business objectives.
- Manage relationships with trade unions and works committees.
- Lead collective bargaining, wage settlements, long-term settlements and productivity agreements.
- Maintain harmonious employee relations and proactively identify potential IR risks.
- Develop mechanisms for early identification and resolution of employee concerns.




- Lead negotiations during changes in working conditions, and productivity initiatives.

B. Workforce Productivity & Cost Optimisation
- Drive initiatives for labour productivity, and workforce flexibility.
- Review manpower deployment, absenteeism, attrition and productivity metrics.
- Partner with operations to improve man-hours per unit/output and labour cost productivity.
- Support automation, mechanisation and technology-led workforce transformation.
- Develop productivity-linked incentive schemes in partnership with business and finance.

C. Plant HR
- Provide strategic HR leadership to plant/location HR teams.
- Ensure effective execution of HR processes
- Build solid HRBP capability at plant level.
- Ensure consistent implementation of corporate HR policies across locations.

D. Labour & Statutory Compliance
- Ensure robust compliance with applicable labour laws, Industrial Relations Code and other applicable labour

📌 Head Industrial Relations (Mumbai)
🏢 Everest Industries
📍 Mumbai