Succession Planning Associate — Vadodara (embedded at client site)

About the role

OriginBluy is a leadership-development and culture-transformation firm based in Gurgaon.

We are looking for a Succession Planning Associate to be embedded at our client’s Vadodara office, a large Gujarat state PSU in the chemicals sector. You will support delivery of a succession planning programme for senior leadership roles, from competency framework through Assessment Centres to development plans and coaching.

You will be the on-the-ground coordinator of the engagement. That means keeping the assessment calendar running, supporting our senior assessors and coaches, maintaining the data, and making sure every successor’s journey is tracked and documented.

What you will do

Assessment Center Design Support

- Help design assessment center including getting competencies
- Preparing decks for senior leadership
- Preparing final documents to submit to client
- Brain storm on design and people to engage

Assessment Centre Run support

- Schedule and coordinate Assessment Centres for identified successors at L-1 and L-2 levels, covering calendars, rooms, materials, and assessor and participant briefings.
- Sit in on Behavioural Event Interviews (BEIs) as note-taker, and prepare clean transcripts and evidence summaries against the competency framework.
- Help collate assessor ratings and evidence into individual assessment reports.

Development plans and coaching

- Draft Individual Development Plans (IDPs) from assessment outputs for review by OriginBluy consultants.
- Schedule coaching sessions for successors, and track attendance, actions and progress.




- Follow up with successors and their managers on IDP actions.

Tracking and reporting

- Maintain the master successor tracker and dashboard, covering positions, successors, assessment status, IDP status and coaching progress.
- Prepare inputs for the monthly leadership review, and flag slippages early.

Client coordination

- Be the day-to-day point of contact for the client HR team.
- Coordinate with the OriginBluy delivery team (assessors, coaches, tech support) and handle logistics across the Vadodara and Dahej sites.
- Handle all assessment and succession data with strict confidentiality.

Who we are looking for

- 1–4 years in HR, succession planning, talent management, L&D;, organisation development or HR consulting.
- Exposure to at least one of: competency frameworks, assessment or development centres, interviews, IDPs or talent reviews.
- Strong written English. You can turn interview notes into clear, structured summaries.
- Comfortable with Excel or Google Sheets and PowerPoint, organised, and reliable on follow-through.
- Mature and discreet. You will work with senior leaders and sensitive data.
- Based in Vadodara, or willing to relocate, with regular travel to Dahej.
- Postgraduate qualification in HR, OD, Psychology or Management (MBA-HR, MSW, MA Psychology or equivalent).

Robust advantages

- Prior work with PSU, government, chemical or large industrial organisations.
- Working fluency in Gujarati, in addition to Hindi and English.
- Training in BEI or competency-based interviewing, or assessment centre experience.

To apply

- Send your CV and a short note on an assessment or talent project you have worked on to [email protected] · www.originbluy.com

📌 Talent Management Specialist (Vadodara)
🏢 OriginBluy | People Insights
📍 Vadodara