We are looking for a hands-on Head of HR to build and lead the people function for a fast-growing consumer business. This is a 0-to-1 / scale-up HR leadership role for someone who enjoys working closely with founders, building teams, creating processes and culture, and solving people challenges in a high-growth environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Partner closely with the founders and leadership team on the organisation's people strategy.
- Own Talent Acquisition across corporate, sales, marketing, e-commerce, supply chain and other functions.
- Build and develop a strong, high-performing HR team.
- Create scalable HR processes across hiring, onboarding, performance management, engagement and employee lifecycle.
- Develop performance management frameworks, KRAs and KPIs across functions.
- Drive organisation design, workforce planning and succession planning as the business scales.
- Build a strong employee culture aligned with the company's values and entrepreneurial environment.
- Own employee engagement, retention and leadership development initiatives.
- Establish compensation structures,



salary benchmarking and reward frameworks.
- Partner with business leaders to identify capability gaps and build talent pipelines.
- Ensure strong HR governance, policies and compliance while maintaining a startup-friendly culture.
- Use people data and analytics to track hiring, attrition, productivity and other key HR metrics.

Ideal Candidate

- 8–14 years of HR experience, with significant exposure to consumer, FMCG, D2C, retail or new-age businesses.
- Experience working in a fast-growing/start-up setting is strongly preferred.
- Someone who has built or significantly scaled an HR function, rather than only managed an established HR setup.
- Strong hands-on experience in Talent Acquisition and building HR teams.
- Comfortable working directly with founders and senior leadership.
- Strong business orientation with the ability to balance people priorities with commercial realities.
- Entrepreneurial, agile and comfortable operating with ambiguity.

📌 Head of Human Resources (Pune)
🏢 The Bridge Associates
📍 Pune