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Lead the HR function at a strategic level

Drive people & culture initiatives across the organization

Partner with leadership team for business growth

Ensure compliance & best HR practices

Position Summary:

Milacron is seeking a Human Resources Director to lead and support the HR function from our India site at Ahmedabad. This role is both strategic and hands-on, serving as a key partner to business leaders while overseeing India HR operations. This position plays a vital role in aligning people strategies with business goals, driving employee engagement, supporting cultural and organizational transformation, and ensuring compliance across our facilities.

What youll do here:

• Acts as a strategic advisor to the leaders through proactive analysis of organizational problems and issues. Provides advice on human resource programs and practices in support of the objectives and operations of the business while fostering a culture of trust, engagement, and accountability.
• Champion organizational change initiatives by leading change management strategies, fostering agility, and supporting continuous organizational development.
• Provide leadership and oversight for all HR operations, including workforce planning, employee relations, career planning, learning and development, policy interpretation, while ensuring alignment with business needs.
• Lead the performance management lifecycle, including setting performance expectations, conducting evaluations, facilitating feedback, and supporting individual development plans,
• Guides the managers and associates with resources and information on compensation & benefits, payroll and HRIS to make the right people decisions.
• Assist with implementing talent acquisition and retention strategies to build a high-performing workforce and strengthen the employer brand.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and proactively mitigating risk.
• Leverage data to evaluate HR metrics and workforce trends to assist with operational decision-making.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of HR Generalists, fostering a high-performing, service-oriented HR function that supports employees and managers across the organization.

Skills you will need here:

• Bachelors degree in human resources, Business Administration, or related field; equivalent combination of 15-20 years of progressive HR experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of HR generalist experience, preferably in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage effectively at all organizational levels.
• Familiarity with HRIS and payroll systems. i.e. ADP, Workday, Dayforce
• Exposure to Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) practices is a plus.
• Strong understanding of labor laws and related compliance, state, and local employment laws.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and strong analytical capabilities.

Your Job
Join the Koch Capabilities HR team as an HR Director, where you'll partner with leaders to help employees self-actualize and maximize their contributions. In this role, you'll build trusted relationships across different capability teams, empowering leaders to transform and drive long-term business success. As a key partner to the Koch Capabilities India Site Leader, you'll help shape culture and advance talent strategies that enable each capability to achieve its vision and priorities. You'll have broad HR responsibilities, including leadership coaching and development, strategic workforce planning, organizational transformation, change management, and employee relations. As a supervisor, you'll also lead and develop the India-based Koch Capabilities Business HR team.

Location: Bengaluru, KA, India - On Site

Our Team
The Koch Capabilities HR team partners with business and capability leaders to help realize each group's vision and drive transformation. By applying Principle Based Management, we create mutual benefit, foster continuous learning, and leverage our comparative advantage to maximize long-term value. We build strong relationships to influence, challenge, and collaborate with leaders globally, ensuring our efforts are aligned and impactful.

What You Will Do

• Build credibility and trusted relationships at all levels, including with senior leaders, to influence and advance business priorities.
• Partner with leaders to identify and close talent gaps, strengthening our talent position.
• Drive accountability and transparency by developing supervisors and reinforcing Our Values.
• Thrive in a dynamic environment, demonstrating adaptability and principled entrepreneurship.
• Develop solutions that enable teams to deliver on business objectives and transform capabilities.
• Collaborate, challenge, and communicate effectively to lead teams through change.
• Use data-driven insights to address business challenges and opportunities.
• Champion Principle Based Management by connecting employees to our culture and advancing the application of our principles.
• Collaborate with HR peers to enhance the HR Operating Model.
• Lead and develop the HR Business Partner team, contributing as a key member of the Koch Capabilities Business HR Leadership team.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in either an HR role or a supervisory role at Koch.
• Proven ability to influence supervisors and build business relationships.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a track record of building trust and influence at all levels.
• Experience working on global teams.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Demonstrated success in building and developing high-performing leadership teams.
• Experience leading organizational change and transformation.
• Proficiency in data analytics and translating insights into action.
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed, collaborative environment.

Our Compensation Philosophy
At Koch, we reward employees based on the value of their contributions, not tenure or hierarchy. Compensation reflects your total contribution to results, considering your knowledge, skills, and the impact you create. If you have questions about our individualized approach to compensation, please speak with your recruiter.

Who We Are
Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manpower budgeting, planning and sourcing - includes both onroll and blue collared staffing

• Tier 1/2 colleges with some manufacturing or/and logistics work experience (5-8 years)

• Lead end-to-end talent sourcing strategies for both salaried and blue-collar positions
• Manage full-cycle recruitment to ensure timely and quality hiring
• Drive talent management programs including succession planning, career development, and leadership pipeline
• Implement and oversee effective employee engagement initiatives to foster a positive work cultu
• Talent management, employee engagement and PMS
• Collaborate with business heads to address workforce challenges and improve HR processes
• Ensure compliance with labor laws and company policies across locations.

Looking for an experienced TA leader to manage systems, process and data to ensure efficient talent acquisition.

Skills and Qualifications:

My Client is a globally respected organization with deep roots in secure technologies and future-ready innovation largely serving for Global & domestic clients in Banking, Telecom, & Fintech industries.

What’s in it for you?

Who are we looking for?

Work Mode : Work from office only

Reporting to : Managing Director & Global head of HR

Preferred : Immediate to 30 days NP

Industry : Technology, Software Development, GIC/GCCs, or R&D center environments only

Strategic HR Leadership:

• Develop and implement HR strategies aligned with the business strategy
• Act as a strategic partner to the executive team, providing insights and recommendations on HR-related issues

Annual Business Planning/ Budgeting

• Developing Manpower Plans in line with ABP
• Detailed General Expense build up for all people related costs
• Keep track of cost utilization on personnel expenses against plans
• Forecast cost scenarios for various investment opportunities regarding the workforce

Talent Acquisition

• Conceptualize employer branding strategies to position Beiersdorf India as a great place to work
• Build talent pipelines for current and future business needs
• Design and drive the adoption of consistent recruiting, interviewing and hiring practices that support a strong candidate experience
• Manage external partnerships with campuses, job boards and recruitment partners

Talent Management

• Articulate, Design and Implement the Talent Management Framework. Lead Potential Identification, Talent Review and Succession Planning cycles
• Design Approach for development of talent, in line with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion objectives
• Workforce Planning to identify strategic capabilities required for the organization to meet the growth agenda

Total Rewards

• Compensation and Benefits: Design and implement competitive compensation and benefits programs that attract and retain talent.
• Salary Benchmarking: Conduct regular market surveys to ensure compensation structures are competitive in the healthcare FMCG space.
• Reward and Recognition Programs: Develop reward programs to recognize and reward employees for their contributions and achievements.

Performance Management

• Anchor the performance management process
• Managing sales incentive and Variable pay plan for the organization
• Provide solutioning to HR Team basis insights and analytics of people data and drive people related decisions

Compliance

• Legal Compliance: Ensure compliance with local labor laws and regulations, including maintaining statutory records and ensuring timely submissions.
• Policy Development: Develop, update, and enforce company HR policies in alignment with labor regulations.
• Health and Safety: Implement health, safety, and welfare standards to comply with regulations and ensure employee well-being.

• Master's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field
• Min of 10-15 years of progressive HR experience.
• Experience in HR Functions like Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Organization Design and Effectiveness, Performance Management, Total Rewards is a plus.
• Good understanding of and experience in Org Culture, crafting ways of working and embedding that across the hire to retire cycle and across all touchpoints of employee experience.
• Experience in working with global and diverse teams is preferred

Personal Attributes:

• Ability to smoothly navigate the system, understand the corporate culture, and handle ambiguity without building frustration.
• Excellent people and leadership skills with exposure to dynamic and challenging business environments
  Strong business orientation with the ability to challenge the status quo and execution excellence.

At Beiersdorf, we want to help people feel good about their skin – and our commitment goes far beyond caring for skin. For 140 years, we have developed innovative skin and body care products for well-known brands such as NIVEA, Eucerin, La Prairie, Hansaplast, and Labello. We act according to our purpose, WE CARE BEYOND SKIN, and take responsibility for our consumers, our employees, the environment and society.

Behind every brand, every product and every accomplishment are our more than 20,000 employees. It is for them that we live a culture of inclusion, respect and trust that is strongly aligned with our values CARE, COURAGE, SIMPLICITY and TRUST. We embrace diversity by valuing the uniqueness of each individual and being committed to equal opportunities for all.

Please apply online via the Beiersdorf Career site until 30th Sept'25.

• Developing and implementing overarching HR strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Leading and mentoring the HR team, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Overseeing talent acquisition, ensuring the attraction and retention of top talent.
• Designing and managing comprehensive compensation and benefits programs.
• Developing and implementing robust employee relations strategies and conflict resolution processes.
• Driving organizational development initiatives, including change management and succession planning.
• Ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations.
• Developing and maintaining HR policies and procedures.
• Analyzing HR data and metrics to inform strategic decision-making.
• Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives throughout the organization.
• Managing the HR budget and overseeing HR technology solutions.