Senior HR Business Partner India Leader

Altera is looking for a strategic, practical, and trusted HR leader to serve as Senior HR Business Partner – India Leader. This is a high-impact country HR role supporting Altera's India operations across Bangalore and Hyderabad. You will partner closely with India business leaders, global and regional HR colleagues, and specialist COE teams to help Altera attract, develop, engage, and retain exceptional talent. From shaping workforce plans and strengthening leadership capability to navigating complex employee-relations matters, you will help turn business priorities into people strategies that work in the India context. This is an opportunity to make a visible difference: you will have the scope to influence how work gets done, how leaders lead, how employees experience Altera, and how global people programs come to life locally.

What you'll do

Serve as a strategic partner to India leaders

• Advise business leaders on workforce planning, organization design, talent priorities, performance, employee experience, leadership effectiveness, and organizational change.
• Bring sound judgment, commercial awareness, and a pragmatic India perspective to complex people decisions.
• Anticipate workforce needs and translate business strategy into clear, actionable people priorities.

Build talent and organizational effectiveness

• Lead or support talent reviews, succession planning, retention strategies, career development, engagement, performance management, and manager capability programs.
• Use workforce insights and people analytics to identify trends, focus attention, and measure progress.
• Help leaders create an environment where employees can do their best work, grow their careers, and feel connected to Altera's mission.
• Strengthen manager confidence and capability in handling day-to-day people matters effectively and consistently.

Connect India to the global HR community

• Represent India in regional and global HR forums, bringing local insight into enterprise discussions.
• Translate global people programs into practical, effective implementation plans for India.
• Clearly communicate India-specific requirements, implications, and opportunities to global and regional stakeholders.
• Help balance enterprise consistency with the local context needed to make programs successful.

Provide trusted guidance on India HR, compliance, and employee relations

• Apply strong knowledge of Indian employment practices, including applicable central and state requirements, Labour Codes, POSH, employee documentation, social security, leave, maternity, contractor matters, investigations, grievances, disciplinary processes, and exits.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, HR Services, Payroll, Benefits, and business leaders to identify and manage risk early.
• Handle sensitive and complex employee-relations matters with discretion, empathy, consistency, and sound judgment.
• Help ensure policies and practices are clear, compliant, and workable for employees and managers.

Partner with HR Centers of Excellence

• Work closely with Benefits, Payroll, Compensation, HR Services, People Systems, and other COEs on India priorities.
• Support India benefits strategy, plan implementation, enrollment, vendor coordination, employee communications, local requirements, and complex case resolution.
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