Head - Human Resources - FMCG/Consumer Durables

HEAD OF HR About The Company: An established Indian consumer-products business with a growing presence in the grooming, personal-care and allied consumer categories is hiring for a Head H.R. The organization has manufacturing facilities with All-India Sales and Distribution network which is being rolled out. Position & Hiring Parameters: - Location: South Mumbai; enterprise-wide remit with travel - interaction across factories and business units - Industry: FMCG, consumer products, personal care, manufacturing, engineering or diversified promoter-led groups Role Mandate & Seniority: - Head of Human Resources level, with potential to grow into Group CHRO - Chief People Officer. - Own people strategy and HR execution across factories, technology - engineering, corporate functions, sales, marketing and distribution. - Build the HR team, leadership culture, accountability architecture, performance standards, recruitment engine, manager capability and people processes without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. - Must be sufficiently senior and courageous to challenge senior management while retaining high emotional intelligence and commercial judgement. Education Level & Qualifications: - Preferred: MBA - PGDM in Human Resources - Personnel Management - Industrial Relations from a credible institution. - Acceptable: Bachelor's degree with strong senior HR leadership experience; additional HR - IR qualifications are advantageous. - Strong labour-law - industrial-relations capability is important because the remit spans factories and geographically distributed operations. - Professional credibility in compensation, performance management, talent acquisition, L&D and HR operations is more important than academic pedigree alone. Required Skills & Competencies: - Hands-on HR leadership across manufacturing - factory and corporate environments. - Talent acquisition, senior leadership hiring, onboarding, background checks and due diligence. - Performance management, accountability systems, appraisal architecture, compensation and incentive design. - Manager development, succession planning, leadership development and employee capability building. - Industrial relations, labour-law compliance, employee relations and difficult-conversation capability. - HR operations, process design, HRIS - digitalisation and practical people analytics. - Culture building across geographically and functionally diverse workforces; high discretion and stakeholder management. - Commercial orientation: ability to link people decisions to productivity, cost, execution quality and business performance. - Candidates who have an experience in FMCG - Consumer durables are preferred. FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.