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Role Overview:

This role is a strategic HR advisor and the program engine for the South Asia ES leadership office. You will partner with the SVP and key business leaders to align talent strategy, organizational design, culture, and employee experience with business objectives. You will own the cadence, priorities, and delivery of pan-One ES programs and ES initiatives. You will also be the Employee Success partner to the office of the President & CEO, South Asia, and will support a few additional functional areas. You will handle sensitive employee and executive matters with full confidentiality and discretion.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Program Leadership (Pan-One ES and ES Programs)

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of strategic people programs: scoping, business case, roadmap, execution, launch, and post-implementation review.
• Maintain an integrated program portfolio and calendar across pan-One ES and South Asia ES. Manage dependencies, risks, and resourcing.
• Run priority management for the SVP's agenda. Flag trade-offs early and re-sequence as business needs shift.
• Manage the schedule of key ES forums with the Chief of Staff and EA, including operating rhythms, steering committees, offsites, town halls, and executive events.
• Lead governance: steering committees, status reviews, and exec-ready readouts with KPIs, ROI, and decisions needed.
• Run cross-functional workstreams with COEs (Talent Acquisition, OOE, Learning, Total Rewards), regional ES teams, and business stakeholders.
• Manage external vendors and SOWs.
• Design communications, enablement, and change frameworks that drive adoption.

2. Support to the Office of the President & CEO, South Asia

• Act as the Employee Success point of contact for the CEO's direct office and leadership team.
• Advise on organization design, leadership talent, succession, and people priorities for the CEO's direct reports.
• Coordinate people-related inputs to the CEO's operating rhythm, leadership forums, and enterprise events.
• Prepare briefings, talking points, and people-data readouts for CEO and leadership engagements.
• Handle highly confidential matters with discretion. Coordinate with the CEO's office, the Chief of Staff, and the EA.

3. Additional Functional Areas

• Provide ES partnership and program support to [Function A] and [Function B] (to be confirmed).
• Translate each function's people priorities into plans, and align them with the broader ES roadmap.

4. Leadership Office Partnership

• Work with the Chief of Staff on strategic planning, annual and quarterly operating plans, leadership communications, and cross-regional alignment.
• Work with the EA on calendar strategy, meeting preparation, and priority flow.
  

5. HR Business Partnership

• Advise leadership on org design, workforce planning, talent development, and change management.
• Drive talent strategy across performance, calibration, promotions, succession, and executive development.
• Coach managers on complex employee relations issues. Escalate high-risk matters to Legal or Employee Relations.
• Turn workforce analytics (attrition, engagement, headcount, diversity) into actionable recommendations.
• Lead change management and communications for restructures, M&A integrations, and operational transitions.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years as an HRBP, in people operations, or leading enterprise-wide HR programs.
• Proven record of running complex, multi-region, cross-functional workstreams.
• Strong program management skills: planning, governance, risk, and KPI/ROI reporting. PMP or similar is a plus.
• Executive advisory and stakeholder management skills with C-suite and senior leaders, including CEO-level exposure.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn workforce data into clear recommendations.
• Working knowledge of employment regulations and modern HR practices.
• Based in Bangalore, India.
  

What Success Looks Like:

• The SVP's and CEO office's people priorities are clear, sequenced, and visible, and programs land on time with measurable impact.
• Leadership decisions are better informed and faster.
• The SVP, Chief of Staff, EA, and CEO's office work as one coordinated team.
• Trust and discretion are consistent.

Core Attributes

• Structured and calm under shifting priorities.
• Credible and composed with the most senior leaders.
• Strong executive-level communicator.
• Highly discreet, with sound judgment.
  
  

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