Chief People Officer - Renewables

Role Overview:

As Chief Human Resources Officer / Chief People Officer, you will partner closely with the CEO, founders and business leadership to build a high-performance, compliant and scalable people organisation. You will lead HR strategy across corporate, project, EPC, O&M and site teams, with particular focus on managing a blended white-collar and blue-collar workforce across multiple states.

This is a business-critical leadership mandate: the successful candidate will strengthen organisational capability, leadership depth, workforce governance, employee experience and HR infrastructure to support next phase of growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end People & Culture agenda, including HR strategy, organisation design, talent, performance, rewards, HR operations, employee relations and culture.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO, founders and business heads on workforce planning, leadership capability, organisation effectiveness and change management.
• Build and scale HR systems, policies, processes, HRIS/analytics and governance mechanisms suited to a fast-growing renewable-energy business.
• Strengthen industrial relations, employee relations, disciplinary processes, grievance handling, statutory compliance and labour-law adherence across states.
• Design and implement talent-acquisition, leadership hiring, succession-planning and capability-building frameworks for both professional and site-based talent.
• Drive performance management, goal-setting, compensation philosophy, incentive design and recognition programmes aligned with project-delivery and business outcomes.
• Build a safety-first, accountable and high-engagement culture across corporate offices and project locations.
• Partner with business leaders on organisation design, restructuring, integration and productivity initiatives as the company scales.
• Lead, mentor and develop the HR team, ensuring strong HR business partnering across corporate and site functions.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• 18 - 25 years of progressive HR experience, including at least 8 - 10 years in senior HR leadership.
• Current or recent experience as CHRO, Chief People Officer, Head HR, VP HR, HR Director or equivalent.
• Strong experience in renewable energy, power, energy, infrastructure.
• Proven ability to manage both white-collar corporate employees and blue-collar/site workforce populations.
• Strong stakeholder-management, communication, influencing and business-partnering skills.