Role Overview

This is a senior, commercially focused HR leadership role responsible for shaping and delivering the employees agenda across India and the Middle East. As a member of the India leadership team and the EMEAI HR team, the HR Director will partner closely with business leaders to translate growth, profitability and organisational priorities into practical employees strategies. The successful candidate will combine strategic judgement with a hands-on approach, using workforce insight, talent decisions and effective HR delivery to improve business performance.

Key Accountabilities

• Commercial HR partnership: advise senior leaders on organisation, capability, workforce, and reward decisions, constructively challenge assumptions and ensure employees investments support revenue growth, productivity, margin and long-term value.

• Talent and succession: strengthen leadership pipelines, succession coverage and retention of critical talent; coach leaders and key employees, and establish clear career pathways, including for engineering and R&D; populations.





• Performance and reward: embed consistent performance management, use market and internal data to guide pay decisions, and oversee salary and variable-pay processes with robust cost discipline.

• Organisation and change: lead workforce planning, organisational development and change initiatives that build capability, accountability, engagement, diversity and an effective employee experience.

• Growth and integration: provide HR leadership for expansion and acquisitions, including employee integration, organisation design and cultural alignment.

• Operational excellence and governance: ensure compliant, reliable and cost-effective payroll, benefits and personnel administration; simplify processes through technology, automation, outsourcing and self-service where appropriate.

• Leadership and insight: lead and develop the regional HR team, build succession capability, manage the HR plan and budget, and u

📌 HR Director, India
🏢 AMETEK
📍 India