Fractional CHRO (Closing this week)

Every critical decision routing through one founder isn't a leadership strength. It's a governance gap waiting to become a crisis.

We're hiring a Fractional CHRO for a quick-scaling, multi-entity founder-led group (IT & Systems Integration, Device Refurbishment, Telecom Software, and an early-stage venture cluster) that's crossed ~₹150 Cr in aggregate revenue — and is now building the people architecture to match, alongside a newly-deployed Fractional CFO and COO.

What you'll own:

- Group-wide people strategy — designing the HR architecture across multiple legal entities and business models (enterprise IT, blue-collar manufacturing workforce, and software delivery teams)
- Executive onboarding and hand-holding — owning the 30/60/90-day integration of senior leadership hires (including the incoming Fractional CFO and COO) so they land, gain traction, and stay
- HR policy and culture repair — auditing and rebuilding HR policies where middle management has been undermined, insulating teams from CXO-level dysfunction, and restoring trust on the shop floor
- Second-line leadership and succession — building bench strength across all operating entities so critical roles are never a single point of failure
- Performance and SLA-linked people systems — instituting attendance discipline, plant-level accountability,



and structured feedback loops in coordination with the COO's operational mandate
- Compensation and org design — building scalable, fair compensation frameworks across blue-collar and white-collar workforces as the group scales past ₹100 Cr per entity

What success looks like:

- Executive hires (CXO and second-line) onboarded with structured 90-day integration plans, not ad-hoc handovers
- Founder escalation tickets tied to people issues down materially, in line with the group's broader governance turnaround
- HR policy audit complete, middle management insulated and empowered across all sites
- Documented second-line leadership bench across the group's core operating entities

The engagement: Fractional (20-24 hours a week), remote/alternate-days, in step with the group's existing Dual Fractional Executive Model (Fractional CFO + Fractional COO already engaged). Few days in office physically in a month at Mumbai. This is real operating ownership of the people function, without full-time C-suite overhead. If you've built and run HR for a ₹100-500 Cr entrepreneurial, multi-entity group — someone who's hands-on enough to sit with a plant manager one day and design an executive onboarding architecture the next — this is worth a conversation.

📌 Fractional CHRO (Closing this week) (Mumbai)
🏢 Blue Genes Research (BGR)
📍 Mumbai