Senior Director, HR India

Gurgaon - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

India is one of Payoneers most critical and fastestgrowing regions and this role will play a central role in shaping India as a longterm talent hub leadership pipeline and capability center for the company globally.

This role reports to the Chief People Officer and serves as the seniormost People leader in India working closely with the global People Leadership Team and Indiabased senior business leaders.

Key Responsibilities:

People Strategy & Business Partnership

Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders across India providing strategic guidance on organization design workforce planning talent development and change leadership.
Align HR strategy with business priorities to drive performance capability and culture across teams.
Bring a strong India perspective into global people strategy discussions constructively shaping and influencing global frameworks to ensure relevance scalability and impact in the region.

Team Leadership

Lead coach and develop a high-performing HR team ensuring clarity between HRBP and People Partner roles and strong collaboration across the function.
Provide senior local HR touchpoint for local members of HR centers of excellence (CoEs) in India bringing the broader team together as appropriate.
Foster a shared team identity and ways of working that reflect our company values and regional needs.

Organizational Effectiveness

Drive local execution of organizational design transformation and change efforts in partnership with global HR colleagues.
Champion initiatives around succession planning capability development and engagement tailoring them to Indias talent landscape.
Support organizational design and change across large fastscaling and diverse teams balancing global consistency with Indiaspecific talent cost and scalability considerations.

Operational Excellence

Ensure high-quality consistent delivery of core people processes such as performance management compensation planning talent reviews and engagement action plans.
Oversee the employee relations work delivered by the People Partner teamensuring cases are handled with fairness consistency and compliance with Indias regulatory environment.
Drive continuous improvement in how we support managersenabling the People Partner team to provide practical timely and aligned support on everyday people matters.
Partner with global CoEs to adapt and embed people tools and frameworks that are locally relevant and effective.
Act as the senior escalation point for complex employee relations compliance or peoplerisk issues in India partnering closely with Legal Risk and global HR leadership as required.

Collaboration & Influence

Serve as the key connector between India-based business leaders and global HR programsensuring regional insights are shared and local adoption is thoughtful.
Represent the India region in global HR planning contributing to the evolution of our people strategy and operations.

What Youll Bring:

12 years of progressive HR experience including HR leadership roles and oversight of HRBP and/or People Partner teams.
Deep knowledge of India labor law and HR compliance with strong business acumen and experience in multinational or matrixed organizations.
Proven success in building strong business partnerships leading through change and enabling team growth.
Demonstrated ability to manage complexity while staying grounded in people-first leadership.
Fluent in English with strong communication coaching and influencing skills.
Experience supporting large and/or fastscaling workforces in India with demonstrated credibility partnering with senior business product and functional leaders.

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Required Experience:

Exec

This role reports to the Chief People Officer and serves as the seniormost People leader in India working closely with the global People Leadership Team and Indiabased senior business leaders.

Key Responsibilities:

People Strategy & Business Partnership

Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders across India providing strategic guidance on organization design workforce planning talent development and change leadership.
Align HR strategy with business priorities to drive performance capability and culture across teams.
Bring a strong India perspective into global people strategy discussions constructively shaping and influencing global frameworks to ensure relevance scalability and impact in the region.

Team Leadership

Lead coach and develop a high-performing HR team ensuring clarity between HRBP and People Partner roles and strong collaboration across the function.
Provide senior local HR touchpoint for local members of HR centers of excellence (CoEs) in India bringing the broader team together as appropriate.
Foster a shared team identity and ways of working that reflect our company values and regional needs.

Organizational Effectiveness

Drive local execution of organizational design transformation and change efforts in partnership with global HR colleagues.
Champion initiatives around succession planning capability development and engagement tailoring them to Indias talent landscape.
Support organizational design and change across large fastscaling and diverse teams balancing global consistency with Indiaspecific talent cost and scalability considerations.

Operational Excellence

Ensure high-quality consistent delivery of core people processes such as performance management compensation planning talent reviews and engagement action plans.
Oversee the employee relations work delivered by the People Partner teamensuring cases are handled with fairness consistency and compliance with Indias regulatory environment.
Drive continuous improvement in how we support managersenabling the People Partner team to provide practical timely and aligned support on everyday people matters.
Partner with global CoEs to adapt and embed people tools and frameworks that are locally relevant and effective.
Act as the senior escalation point for complex employee relations compliance or peoplerisk issues in India partnering closely with Legal Risk and global HR leadership as required.

Collaboration & Influence

Serve as the key connector between India-based business leaders and global HR programsensuring regional insights are shared and local adoption is thoughtful.
Represent the India region in global HR planning contributing to the evolution of our people strategy and operations.

What Youll Bring:

12 years of progressive HR experience including HR leadership roles and oversight of HRBP and/or People Partner teams.
Deep knowledge of India labor law and HR compliance with strong business acumen and experience in multinational or matrixed organizations.
Proven success in building strong business partnerships leading through change and enabling team growth.
Demonstrated ability to manage complexity while staying grounded in people-first leadership.
Fluent in English with strong communication coaching and influencing skills.
Experience supporting large and/or fastscaling workforces in India with demonstrated credibility partnering with senior business product and functional leaders.

#LI-JG1

Required Experience:

Exec

Key Skills

Talent Management
Employee Relations
Succession Planning
Employee Evaluation
Human Resources Management
Workers' Compensation Law
Benefits Administration
HRIS
Training & Development
Employment & Labor Law
Organization Design
Human Resources

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