Head - HR Business Partner - Manufacturing/Consumer Goods

Role Overview:

This role will have a strong emphasis on building a high-performance culture, employee engagement, performance management, and people processes from the ground up. The ideal candidate should have experience working in a startup, scale-up, mid-sized manufacturing, consumer durables, D2C, or consumer-focused organisation, where they have independently built HR frameworks rather than only managing established processes.

Key Responsibilities:

- Partner closely with the COO and business leadership to develop and execute the overall people strategy.

- Oversee core HR processes including policies, employee lifecycle management, HR systems and compliance.

- Build scalable HR processes aligned with the organisation's growth stage.

- Independently identify culture and engagement gaps and drive corrective initiatives without requiring constant leadership direction.

- Build and institutionalise the organisation's culture from the ground up by defining and driving culture-building initiatives aligned with companies values and business objectives.

- Develop employee engagement frameworks, communication mechanisms and engagement initiatives thus building a strong employee experience across functions and levels.

- Design and implement a structured Performance Management System (PMS) from scratch.

- Establish KRAs, KPIs, goal-setting frameworks and performance review cycles.

- Partner with managers to improve performance management capability.

- Support organisational restructuring and change-management initiatives as the business evolves.

- Build processes around performance improvement, promotions, career progression and succession planning.