HR Head, Renewable Energy

Confidential client: a growing renewable energy EPC company installing solar water pumping systems across several Indian states, with a large field workforce.

Position snapshot

• Title: HR Head
• Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat (six-day work week)
• Scope: the full HR function, including recruitment, employee relations, workforce administration, engagement, payroll, and reward and recognition
• Languages: English, Hindi and Gujarati
• Notice period: under one month preferred

Overall responsibility

• Lead the HR department: set up processes, drive people strategy and manage execution across recruitment, employee relations, workforce administration, engagement, payroll, and reward and recognition.
• Ensure compliance with regulations, professional standards and policies, and build HR policies tailored to the business.
• Lead, support and develop the HR team, share best practice and uphold professional standards.
• Build SOPs, lead digital transformation in HR and ensure SOPs are followed.
• Drive continuous improvement in engagement and welfare, productivity, line-manager ownership of HR and leadership capability.
• Run strategic workforce planning: current and future needs, skill gaps and the plans to close them.
• Build succession plans for key roles.
• Create and manage the HR budget.
• Use HR analytics for data-driven decisions.
• Design and run a performance appraisal system aligned with company goals.

Day-to-day work

• Coach, mentor and support senior colleagues to build strengths, maintain relationships and improve retention.
• Manage training, learning and development initiatives.
• Look after workforce well-being, attract new talent and report on HR, payroll and L&D.
• Advise on employment policy and equip managers to handle workforce issues.
• Lead hiring for heads of other departments.
• Design evaluation criteria, metrics and training for fair performance assessment, run timely reviews and act on the results.

Key result areas and KPIs

• Recruitment cost per hire and time-to-fill for key positions
• Compliance audit results and HR policies that meet laws and regulations
• Effective execution of HR processes and systems, and of the HR budget
• Completion rate of performance appraisals
• Talent development programs and succession plans in place
• Employee satisfaction and turnover
• Training hours per employee, share of employees meeting development goals, participation in development programs
• Operational efficiency in payroll and expense management

What you bring

• About 8 to 10 years leading HR for an organization of roughly 300 to 1,500 people.
• Experience leading HR through a scale-up from about 100 to 500+ employees (preferred).
• Experience leading digital transformation in HR (preferred).
• Experience in the same or adjacent industries with a field workforce (preferred).
• A master's degree; an MBA from a good institute is preferred.

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