Abhinandan Ventures - Lead - Human Resources

Role Summary:

India IVF is growing fast - 85% growth between FY26 and FY25, 10 centres today, and more on the way. We are looking for an HR Lead to build the infrastructure, processes, and culture required for a rapidly scaling healthcare network.

This is a hands-on leadership role working directly with the founders, owning talent acquisition, onboarding, compliance, performance management, and employee experience across clinical, operational, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Talent Acquisition & Pipeline:

• Lead hiring across clinical, operational, sales, and leadership roles as the organization scales across new markets.
• Build a robust talent pipeline and reduce time-to-hire for critical roles.
• Own the end-to-end recruitment process: sourcing, assessment, offer, and onboarding.
• Partner with business and function heads to anticipate workforce needs ahead of expansion milestones.

HR Operations & Compliance:

• Build scalable HR operations - payroll, HRMS, attendance, leave, and employee records - across all centres.
• Ensure compliance with labour laws, statutory requirements, and company policies across multi-state operations.
• Develop HR policies and SOPs that scale as the organization grows beyond 10 centres.

People Development & Performance:

• Design and roll out performance appraisal frameworks that work across a diverse, distributed workforce.
• Coach managers and team leads on structured feedback, goal-setting, and performance conversations.
• Identify training and development needs and build programmes that improve both capability and retention.

Culture & Employee Experience:

• Build a culture of accountability, ownership, and care that reflects the organization's mission.
• Design and execute employee engagement initiatives that work for a geographically distributed team.
• Own onboarding experience to ensure new joiners are productive and aligned quickly.

Strategic HR Partnership:

• Work directly with the founders on org structure, workforce planning, and people strategy for the next growth phase.
• Provide leadership with timely, data-backed inputs on retention, attrition trends, and people health across the organization.
• Build and present HR dashboards and metrics that give the leadership team a clear view of the people function.

Qualifications:

• Postgraduate degree in HR - MBA or PGDM.
• 5 - 9 years of HR experience, with a meaningful stint in a high-growth startup or scaling healthcare organization.
• Proven track record of hiring at volume and speed without compromising quality - across both clinical and non-clinical profiles preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of payroll, HRMS systems, labour law compliance, and multi-state HR operations.
• Hands-on and high-energy - comfortable owning execution as much as strategy.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust with teams across functions and locations.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to build structure where little exists.