Position Summary The Senior HR Partner plays a pivotal operational & candidate-facing role in building and scaling the greenfield Generac’s Business & Technology Centre (GBTC) in Pune. Splitting focus between core HR Operations (70%) and Talent Acquisition (30%), this role drives seamless employee lifecycle management, payroll, HRIS governance, and employee experience programs.
Key Responsibilities:
Talent Acquisition & Greenfield Scaling (30%)
1. Target Hiring & Execution: Partner with the Talent Acquisition COE and hiring managers to execute recruiting plans, active sourcing, screening, and interview scheduling across technical and operational domains.
2. Candidate Experience & Offer Management: Manage candidate communication from initial touchpoints through offer negotiations, release, and pre-joining engagement to minimize drop-offs.
3. Market Intelligence & Talent Pipeline: Benchmark industry recruitment standards and leverage modern sourcing channels to meet aggressive greenfield growth targets.
HR Operations (70% Shared)
1. Onboarding & Lifecycle Experience
2. Structured Onboarding & Assimilation: Drive end-to-end execution of the candidate onboarding framework, ensuring seamless pre-joining compliance, day-one orientation, asset allocation, and policy immersion.
3. Offboarding & Exit Management: Administer exit formalities, conduct exit interviews, coordinate clearance workflows, and analyze attrition trends to provide actionable feedback to HR leadership.
HR Operations & Payroll Coordination
1. Payroll & Inputs Consolidation: Consolidate attendance, leaves, and variable components to deliver accurate & timely payroll inputs to payroll processing partners/ stakeholders.
2. Benefits & Vendor Administration: Act as the primary liaison for group medical insurance, employee benefits execution, and routine queries, ensuring smooth service delivery.
HRIS (Workday) & Data Analytics
1. Workday Administration: Maintain 100% data integrity across Workday for job changes,
org updates, transfers, and new hires.
2. MIS & Reporting: Generate operational HR metrics, dashboards, and audit-ready reports to support business reviews and compliance checks.
Employee Engagement & Cultural Initiatives
1. Culture & Engagement Execution: Facilitate workplace culture initiatives, team-building activities, cross-functional knowledge sharing sessions, and internal employee engagement committees.
2. Employee Relations: Serve as an approachable, first-line HR partner for employee queries and workplace grievances, escalating complex matters promptly.
Compliance, Governance & Audit Readiness
1. Personnel Records: Maintain compliant electronic and hard-copy personnel files, employment contracts, and statutory documentation.
2. Audit Support: Support internal and external HR audits, maintaining strict alignment with local regulations and global organizational policies.
Key Competencies
1. Greenfield Agility: Comfort with ambiguous, fast-paced environments and establishing operational rigor from scratch.
2. End-to-End Recruitment Execution: Proven ability to source, screen, and close technical and functional roles efficiently.
3. Workday & HR Technology Proficiency: Strong hands-on experience navigating HRIS platforms (Workday preferred) and managing clean dataset inputs.
4. Stakeholder Communication: Clear, polished, and empathetic verbal and written communication skills across all career levels.
5. Event & Culture Coordination: Solid organizational skills to plan, drive, and execute site-wide engagement programs.
Qualifications & Experience
1. Education: Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field required. MBA/PGDM in Human Resources strongly preferred.
2. Experience: 5–8 years of progressive HR Generalist/Operations experience, ideally within a Global Capability Centre (GCC), IT/Engineering R&D; center, or technology enterprise.
3. Core Skills: Hands-on expertise in recruitment coordination, Workday, payroll data management and employee engagement delivery.
📌 Sr. HR Partner (Pune)
🏢 Generac
📍 Pune