Godrej Properties - Deputy General Manager - Organisation Culture & Engagement - IIM/TISS/XLRI/SCMHRD

Godrej Industries Limited.

Role: Deputy General Manager - Organisation Culture & Engagement

Function: Human Resources

Location: Mumbai

About the Role:

The Deputy General Manager - Organisation Culture & Engagement will be the custodian of Godrej Properties' people culture - defining what it means to work here, making that real across every level of the organisation, and building an engaged workforce that drives business outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor and influencing role, working closely with the Head-COEs, CHRO and business leadership.

What You Will Do:

Culture Architecture & Activation:

- Define, articulate and embed the Godrej Way culture framework - values, behaviours, and ways of working - across the employee lifecycle.

- Partner with business leaders to ensure culture is lived and not just stated, with visible behavioural anchors at every level.

- Design and run culture diagnostics to identify gaps between desired and current culture; build action plans against findings.

- Lead culture integration work during periods of organisational change, growth, or restructuring.

Employee Engagement:

- Own the GPL engagement measurement strategy - design, run, and analyse engagement surveys (including Gallup, Amber or equivalent) across the organisation.

- Translate engagement data into actionable insights; work with HRBPs and business heads to drive meaningful interventions at function and team level.

- Build and sustain a cadence of engagement touchpoints - pulse checks, focus groups, manager-led rituals - that keep the organisation connected and energised.

- Drive recognition frameworks that reinforce culture and sustain engagement beyond survey cycles.

Manager & Leadership Enablement:

- Build capability among people managers to drive engagement within their teams - playbooks, toolkits, coaching nudges.

- Partner with L&D to embed culture and engagement into leadership development programmes.

- Work with senior leaders to role-model and cascade cultural behaviours visibly.

Measurement & Reporting:

- Own the engagement and culture scorecard; report progress to CHRO and leadership team quarterly.

- Define and track MOPs: engagement scores, manager effectiveness, culture index.

What We Are Looking For:

- Batch of 2019-2021 from premier b-schools.

- Demonstrated experience running large-scale engagement programmes (Gallup Q12 preferred).

- Strong diagnostic ability - comfortable with data, surveys, and translating numbers into people insights.

- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills - this role works across levels without direct authority.

- Strong written and verbal communication - able to build narratives, write well, present confidently.

- Experience in real estate, infrastructure, or similarly project-driven, distributed organisations is a plus.

What Success Looks Like in Year One:

- Engagement score improvement to 85th percentile for the BU.

- Engagement survey completed, results socialised, and function-level action plans live.

- Culture framework documented and activated with visible behavioural markers.

- Manager enablement toolkit deployed.