**Location:** Mumbai, Maharashtra **Organisation:** A Leading Indian Services Organisation **Reporting To:** CEO / Managing Director **About the Opportunity** We are representing a leading Indian services organisation with an extensive presence across the country and its corp
**Location:**
Mumbai, Maharashtra
**Organisation:**
A Leading Indian Services Organisation
**Reporting To:**
CEO / Managing Director
**About the Opportunity**
We are representing a leading Indian services organisation with an extensive presence across the country and its corporate headquarters in Mumbai.
The organisation is looking to appoint a seasoned Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) who will lead its overall Human Resources function and play a strategic role in driving organisational effectiveness, people strategy and business growth.
This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced HR professional who can align the people agenda with business objectives while building a high-performance, future-ready organisation.
**Key Responsibilities**
- **Strategic HR Leadership:**
Develop and implement the overall HR strategy in alignment with the organisation's business objectives and long-term growth plans.
- **Organisational Development:**
Drive organisation design, workforce planning, manpower optimisation and organisational effectiveness across multiple locations.
- **Talent Management:**
Lead leadership hiring, succession planning, talent reviews, career development and leadership pipeline initiatives.
- **Performance Management:**
Establish and strengthen performance management frameworks, goal-setting processes, performance evaluation and reward mechanisms.
- **Talent Acquisition:**
Provide strategic direction to the talent acquisition function, ensuring effective leadership hiring and workforce availability across the organisation.
- **Compensation & Benefits:**
Oversee compensation strategy, salary structures, incentives, rewards and employee benefits.
- **Employee Engagement & Culture:**
Build a performance-oriented organisational culture, strengthen employee engagement and drive retention initiatives.
- **Learning & Development:**
Establish leadership development, capability-building and organisation-wide learning initiatives.
- **HR Operations & Governance:**
Ensure robust HR processes, policies, systems and compliance with applicable labour laws and statutory requirements.
- **Employee Relations:**
Effectively manage employee relations, industrial relations wherever applicable, and sensitive people-related matters.
- **HR Transformation:**
Drive HR technology adoption, process standardisation, automation and continuous improvement across the HR function.
- **Leadership Partnership:**
Act as a strategic business partner to the CEO, business heads and senior leadership team on all people-related matters.
**Desired Candidate Profile**
- 18–25 years of overall experience in Human Resources, with significant experience in senior HR leadership positions.
- Proven experience in leading the HR function of a large, multi-location organisation.
- Experience in the services industry would be highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of business-driven HR strategy, organisation design and workforce planning.
- Demonstrated experience in building HR teams, processes and systems.
- Strong expertise in talent management, leadership development, succession planning and performance management.
- Experience in managing large and geographically distributed workforces.
- Excellent stakeholder management, leadership and communication skills.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels.
- A strong business orientation with the ability to influence senior leadership and drive organisational change.
**Location & Mobility - Mumbai is the mandatory base location for this position.**
Candidates must be willing to relocate to Mumbai if they are currently based elsewhere in India. This is a non-negotiable requirement.
**Confidentiality & Search Process**
This is a highly confidential senior leadership mandate being handled by First Quadrants.
- The identity of the organisation will not be disclosed at the initial stage of interaction.
- We assure prospective candidates of the utmost confidentiality throughout the engagement.
- The search process is expected to take approximately 6–8 weeks or longer, given the seniority and confidential nature of the position.
- Interested professionals are requested to connect directly with our search team for an initial confidential discussion.
**Interested candidates may share their updated profiles or connect with the First Quadrants team to explore this opportunity.**