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

📌 Head - HR Business Partner (Gurugram)
🏢 Air India
📍 Gurugram