AVP/Senior People Business Partner

• Develop AB India s identity as a responsible employer, in terms of career opportunities, people development, compensation, diversity and work environment.

• Address the larger challenges of the inorganic business growth within the region in terms of leadership culture, performance management, and people engagement.

• Support organization change as AB India meets the challenges of hyper-growth across businesses.

• Enhance AB India s competitiveness by maintaining critical staffing levels and talent profiles.

• Support India s strategy and transformation by driving a high-performance culture and working on skill development and enhancement.

• Provide HR support to the India business to ensure the alignment of HR initiatives with business strategy and local regulations, including a full spectrum of advice and guidance in relation to the employee lifecycle and operational implementation of the global HR strategy and its roll out to our client group.

• Thought partner for VP/Director of People, and drive the People plan for India, with liaison to India Leadership for synergy and consistency across all business verticals.

• Liaise with regional senior management across functions, provide commercial and credible advice.

• Build, develop, and maintain strong relationships with internal client base and provides advice on all HR issues to management and employees.

• Ensure that all People delivery is managed in compliance with People policies and regulations.

• Implement and enforce AB s corporate initiatives and global People policies.

• Highlight and respond to HR-related business and conduct risk and ensures best practice with employment issues including liaison with legal advisors as appropriate.

• Manage Employee Relations cases (including running internal grievances, disciplinaries, restructuring and redundancies, etc.)

• Work on projects both locally and globally which add value to AB India s service offering.

• Drive People Operations for your respective business heads with support from a People Business Specialist and global People teams.

• Maintain a strong and effective communication framework with the regional leadership team.

What makes this role unique or interesting

• Opportunity to build out a best-in-class global office for a global asset management business.

• Partner directly with regional and global leadership to develop a high-performance talent pool for AB India.

• Opportunity to demonstrate your business partnering skills in a high visibility role.

• Create a unique employer value proposition for AB India on the local talent map.

• Open canvas to partner with People Digital to ideate and implement progressive technology solutions.

Qualifications, Experience, Education:

Required:

• Master s in human resources/Equivalent qualification from an accredited business school

• 10+ years of experience in talent management, HR operations, with 6+ years of experience as a business partner in high growth environments

• People centric and roll up your sleeves, solutions-oriented mindset and work style

• Experience partnering with senior level leaders to guide and implement people strategy .

Preferred and specific skills:

• You bring experience across HR functional areas: coaching, employee relations, compensation, performance management, and program management.

• You have effective verbal and written communication skills, presentations skills and a commitment to collaborate with people across a variety of levels with diverse backgrounds.

• You have a proven track record in exercising good judgment and discretion; maintain confidentiality.

• You thrive in a fast-paced work setting and view ambiguity as an opportunity to solve.

• You are not afraid of numbers i.e you have strong analytical skills.