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.