Head- HR

Job Description

Job DescriptionCore PurposeThis role will be responsible for driving the end-to-end HR and Personnel Administration agenda across the manufacturing units, with a deep focus on labour compliance, contract workforce management, and factory HR governance. The incumbent will partner closely with business and plant leadership to ensure a compliant, efficient, and high-performing workplace environment.Key Responsibilities

• Lead HR operations and statutory compliance across all manufacturing sites, ensuring adherence to labour laws and factory regulations.
• Oversee all statutory activities under the Factories Act, CLRA, Minimum Wages, Bonus, Gratuity, ESI, PF, and related legislations.
• Manage a large-scale workforce comprising on-roll and contractual employees through structured compliance frameworks and governance reviews.
• Drive vendor discipline and periodic audits for 450+ contractors, ensuring consistency and accuracy in documentation, wage adherence, and legal filings.
• Build and manage a distributed HR administration team responsible for personnel data, records, and factory-level HR processes.
• Standardize employment governance - including offer formats, renewals, and performance-linked reviews - across all sites.
• Institutionalize a structured performance management process for the plant workforce, ensuring management visibility and timely renewals.
• Maintain a positive employee relations climate and proactively address grievances or compliance queries.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders (legal, audit, labour departments, and consultants) to ensure full compliance readiness.

The Successful Applicant

• 12-18 years of experience in HR, Factory HR, or Labour Compliance within large manufacturing or industrial organizations.
• Strong knowledge of statutory laws, contract workforce management, and factory HR operations.
• Proven experience managing a workforce of 2000+ on-roll and 4000+ contractual employees.
• Exposure to multi-plant or multi-location HR setups preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead compliance audits, labour inspections, and contractor governance reviews.
• Postgraduate degree in HR / Personnel Management / MSW / Industrial Relations from a reputed institute.

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to lead the HR and compliance function across a large-scale industrial ecosystem.
• Strategic role with visibility to top management and an ability to influence organization-wide people governance.
• Platform to drive compliance excellence and process transformation in a legacy manufacturing environment.

Skills Required

Employee Relations, Statutory Compliance, Hr Operations, Compliance Audits, Labour Laws, Performance Management