Role Purpose
The Head– HR Business Partner will lead the people agenda for an assigned business cohort, acting as a strategic advisor to leadership while ensuring robust execution through a team of HR Partners. The role is responsible for driving people strategy, building an engaged and future-ready workforce, enabling performance and talent outcomes, strengthening capability and capacity, and shaping culture and change journeys across the cohort.

Key Responsibilities
1) People Strategy for the Cohort

Partner with business leadership to define and execute People Strategy, aligned to business goals.
Build workforce plans (capacity, capability, succession, critical roles) and align hiring, redeployment, and build/buy/borrow strategies.
Establish quarterly people reviews with leadership; track progress through dashboards and OKRs.
Integrate DEI objectives, future skills, digital adoption, and cost-to-serve efficiency into the people plan.

2) Business Partnering & Building an Engaged Workforce

Serve as a trusted advisor to BU heads and line leaders, influence decisions with data,



insights, and external benchmarks.
Drive engagement strategy for the cohort—manager enablement, recognition, communication cadence, and inclusion initiatives.
Use listening to mechanisms (engagement surveys, eNPS) to identify hotspots; run action plans with owners and timelines.
Partner with COEs (TA, L&D;, C&B;, ER) to ensure cohesive solutions; ensure timely delivery of HR processes across the employee lifecycle.

3) Performance & Talent Management

Orchestrate the annual and mid-year performance cycles; ensure calibration quality, fairness, and linkage to rewards.
Lead talent reviews and succession planning for critical roles; maintain healthy bench strength and ready-now pipelines.
Identify skill gaps; design and deploy cohort-wide capability programs (technical, leadership, managerial effectiveness) with measurable impact.
Enable Career Pathing, IDPs, and mobility pathways (internal mark

📌 Head - HR Business Partner (India)
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