**About the Role** We are looking for a Senior HR Manager - Branch to lead the end-to-end people agenda for a branch workforce, partnering closely with business leaders to drive talent, performance, engagement, and workforce effectiveness. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the branch has the right people, capabilities, and organizational readiness to achieve business objectives. **Key Responsibilities** + Partner with branch leadership to drive business-aligned people strategies and HR initiatives. + Lead branch recruitment delivery, ensuring quality hiring, effective stakeholder management, and seamless onboarding of new employees. + Govern and execute key people processes including goal setting, performance management, talent reviews, promotions, succession planning, and learning initiatives. + Drive workforce planning and talent pipeline initiatives to ensure timely availability of critical talent. + Support leadership development and capability-building programs to strengthen organizational effectiveness and succession readiness. + Partner with managers to enhance employee engagement, development, and overall employee experience. + Enable successful implementation of HR policies, programs, and change initiatives across the branch. + Leverage people insights and HR data to support informed business decisions and improve workforce outcomes. + Collaborate effectively with HR Centers of Excellence, shared services teams,



and business stakeholders to deliver integrated HR solutions. **Experience, Skills & Education Qualification** **Experience** + 2 to 5 years of relevant Human Resources experience. + Experience in an HR Business Partner or HR Centre of Excellence role. + Strong understanding of core HR processes including talent acquisition, performance management, talent development, employee engagement, and workforce planning. + Experience partnering with business leaders and managing multiple stakeholders. + Exposure to commercial or branch HR environments will be an advantage. **Skills** + Strong business acumen and ability to align people strategies with business priorities. + Expertise in talent management, succession planning, capability building, and performance management. + Knowledge of organization design, job evaluation, workforce planning, and resource optimization. + Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills. + Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive change, and build organizational capability. + Strong analytical skills with the ability to derive insights from HR data and metrics. + Excellent communication, relationship-building, and coaching skills. + High level of ownership, execution excellence, and process discipline. **Education Qualification** + MBA/Postgraduate Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline. + Relevant qualified HR certifications will be an added advantage.

📌 Branch HR Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Nestlé
📍 Chennai