Human Resources Director, India

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Company: Wood
Skills: HR - General, HR - Recruitment
Education: Bachelors/3-5 yr Degree
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India





Overview / Responsibilities Wood is searching for an engaging individual, who demonstrates a high level of influencing skills and human resources experience to work as part of the Human Resources team. The Director of Human Resources (HR) for India acts as a key geographical focal point and provides HR support across India. The role is responsible for driving geographical results across all Business Units (BUs), providing business partnering support to the BUs leadership teams and being accountable for leading the coordination and delivery of activities across all BUs. The objective of this role is to maintain business continuity through being a single point of contact for the business in each India geography into the workings of the Agile Team. The incumbent acts as the "connection" between the business and maintains strategic involvement (i.e. through regular contact and meetings), ensuring that the function is proactive and anticipates the needs of the business. Providing leadership to the P&O Agile team in India, key areas of focus in this role include; using a project management approach to gather accurate information and data analytics to support decision making providing advice and counsel in effective people management practices ensuring that operations and processes within their area of responsibility are aligned to the overall business strategy, in line with relevant regulations, laws and best practice supporting the BU leaders across the entire employee life-cycle: delivers employee engagement; talent priorities; workforce planning and resourcing; builds organisational effectiveness; leads change management; and mitigates risk through effective employee relations accountable for all aspects of people in their area of responsibility, supported by professional services team and the global shared services team, and centres of expertise such as Reward, Resourcing and People Development responsible for coaching leadership to develop people and skills within their area of responsibility working closely with the Resourcing team to ensure capacities of flexible resource pools are managed in the best interest of the company, balancing business and people interests developing a high-performing HR team within the Agile Pool with strong business partnering skills to provide innovative solutions to support leaders across the entire employee life-cycle Skills / Qualifications Degree level qualification in HR or business management preferred Experienced HR manager/Snr Business Partner with strong business sense/business experience Excellent management and prioritization skills to manage and staff the employees in the pool and achieve the objectives and KPls previously defined Experience of managing change, putting high emphasis on co-operation and business partnership across the company Strong rigor and maturity, to stand discussions/escalations with senior stakeholders Experience of: Changing environment Established and achieved challenging performance targets Demonstrated a commitment to continuous learning and development Demonstrated technical excellence Presenting solutions to customers and working in partnership to deliver Personal Attributes: Exceptional relationship building skills who can connect, establish and maintain effective working relationships Relates well with others; considers and responds appropriately to the needs, feelings, and capabilities of different people in different situations, is tactful, compassionate and sensitive, and treats others with respect. Understands how others perceive them and has the ability to flex their own style to the situation for greater effectiveness Has a service orientation to internal clients, being responsive to needs, effectively managing expectations Results driven self-starter: Takes initiative and consistently delivers results of the highest quality, personally and through the team Energy and compassion Able to handle both routine tasks and be an agile learner taking on new responsibilities Excellent verbal and written communication A commitment to continuous learning and development Ability to: Generate trust and credibility with audiences through continuous, open and consistent communication Influence key stakeholders Foster a customer-focused climate that delivers on expectations and strengthens relationships Company Overview Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world's most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com Diversity Statement We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.




Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. At Wood our common purpose is to ‘unlock solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.’ Through the delivery of our Consulting, Project and Operations solutions across energy and the built environment we deliver exceptional returns for our clients, our people, our investors and the communities where we live and work. Visit us at  www.woodplc.com and follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn.
 




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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Human Resources

Full Time

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Published On 26-07-2022