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 setting.

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.
Solid business orientation with the ability to balance people priorities with commercial realities.
Entrepreneurial, agile and comfortable operating with ambiguity.

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