HR Business Partner — Contractor Workforce

? Chennai, India

? Experience: 5–8 years

? Salary: INR 7–10 lakhs per annum

✈️ Travel: Regular travel across India

Are you an HR professional who enjoys staying connected with employees and ensuring that the operational details are handled well?

Career Zoom is hiring an HR Business Partner — Contractor Workforce on behalf of a technology and staffing organisation. This position will support IT professionals deployed across India on a dedicated, premium client account.

Based in Chennai, you will be the primary HR contact for a geographically dispersed contractor workforce. You will manage the contractor lifecycle, maintain documentation and compliance, oversee timesheet processes, and build relationships through regular employee engagement and site visits.

What you will be doing

Contractor onboarding and documentation

- Coordinate end-to-end onboarding of IT contractors before deployment.
- Collect and maintain employee documents, background verification records, agreements, NDAs and policy acknowledgements.
- Coordinate with internal teams on deployment readiness and support the distribution of equipment and other assets.

Compliance and workforce operations

- Explain company and client policies, information security requirements and workplace guidelines to contractors.
- Support compliance reviews and audits, and follow up on policy-related issues.
- Monitor timesheet submissions and the accurate recording of work hours in client and internal systems.
- Work with payroll,



finance and operations teams to resolve discrepancies and support billing timelines.

Employee relations and engagement

- Act as the first point of contact for contractor queries, concerns and grievances.
- Conduct regular check-ins and policy refreshers to support engagement and retention.
- Travel to contractor locations across India for site visits, feedback sessions and workforce reviews.

Contractor lifecycle and reporting

- Coordinate extensions, renewals, transfers, project changes and offboarding.
- Support exit documentation, clearances and asset recovery.
- Maintain reports on headcount, deployment, documentation, timesheets, attrition and engagement.

What we are looking for

- 5–8 years of experience in HR business partnering, HR operations, contractor management or workforce administration.
- Experience supporting an IT staffing, staff augmentation, managed services or contingent workforce setting.
- Hands-on experience managing onboarding, employee documentation and lifecycle processes.
- Familiarity with timesheet governance, attendance tracking and coordination with payroll or finance teams.
- Strong stakeholder management, problem-solving and organisational skills.
- Willingness to travel extensively across India and engage with employees at different locations.
- Ability to work independently and manage sensitive information responsibly.

If you enjoy being a dependable point of contact for employees and can keep a distributed workforce connected and compliant, we would love to hear from you.

📌 HR Business Partner - Contractor Workforce (Chennai)
🏢 Career Zoom Pte.
📍 Chennai