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.