Job Description Associate General Manager (AGM) Human Resources
Position Title: Associate General Manager HR
Location: Bangalore
Reporting To: HR Head
Role Type: Strategic HR Leadership Role
Requirement timeline: Immediate
Role Overview
The AGM HR will serve as a strategic business partner and organisational catalyst, leading critical people initiatives that enable business growth, cultural evolution, leadership capability, and workforce effectiveness. This role demandsa forward-looking HR leader with strong business acumen, analytical depth, stakeholder influence, and a proven ability to drive enterprise-wide HR transformation.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic HR Leadership
- Drive the organization's HR strategy roadmapin alignment with business priorities, scaling needs, and long-term capability building.
- Lead organization design assessments, including spans& layers optimisation, role architecture, capacity modeling, and future-ready workforce design.
- Partner with leadership to drive transformation initiatives across capability, structure, and culture.
- Budgeting
Leadership Partnering & Workforce Effectiveness
- Act as a strategic HR advisor to senior leaders,enabling data-driven decisions on talent, succession, workforce composition, and organizational health.
- Lead workforce planninginitiatives to ensure the right skills, roles, and structures are in place to meet evolving business demands.
- Support leaders throughchange enablement, communication, and structured adoption frameworks.
Performance Management & Culture Reinforcement
- Strengthen the performance philosophy, ensuring fairness, transparency, differentiation, and alignment with business outcomes.
- Refine and evolve PMS frameworks, calibration practices, and continuous performance feedback.
- Coach leaders and managers on performance feedback, capability building, and culture stewardship.
Employee Engagement
- Own the end-to-end employee experience vertical, including listening forums top to down or vice-versa, and organisational health indicators.
- Design and implement interventions that enhance engagement, retention, belonging, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Drive well-being initiatives and employee experience enhancements across the employee lifecycle.
Policy Governance, Compliance & Risk Management
- Govern HR policies,and audit standardsto ensure organizational and statutory compliance.
- Serve as the senior HR representative on committees such as BCP, POSH, , and key governance bodies.
HR Operations Excellence & Digital Transformation
- Lead HR technology optimization, HRMS improvements, and automation initiatives to strengthen process efficiency and transparency.
- Manage all HR platforms- Recognition, Learning, Insurance etc. and drive employee adoption for all the platforms.
- Ensure operational excellence across HR service delivery.
- Manage and drive performance of all Vendors supporting the function.
Analytics & Reporting
- Lead analytics-driven insights for leadership reviews, including attrition, productivity, performance, compensation, and engagement dashboards.
- Present meaningful recommendations and intelligence to HR Head and Executive Leadership Team to influence strategic decisions.
- Build advanced reporting frameworks and predictive analytics models where relevant.
Employer Branding, Culture & Change Management
- Champion culture-building initiatives, GPTW participation, and internal communication strategies.
- Lead change management programs that supportorganizational transformations, or structural redesigns.
Team Leadership & HR Capability Building
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing HR team, fostering agility, innovation, and ownership.
- Build HR capability through structured learning, cross-functional exposure, and domain specialisation.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement within the HR function.
Qualifications & Experience
- Postgraduate degree in Human Resources / Organisational Psychology / Business Management or equivalent.
- 1215 years of progressive HR experience with strong exposure to strategic HR, business partnering, and organization development.
- Experience leading HR teams, large-scale HR initiatives, and cross-functional projects.
- Strong business acumen, analytical capability, influencing skills, and stakeholder partnership.
Key Competencies
- Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving
- Leadership Presence & Stakeholder Influence
- Organization Design& Talent Strategy
- Analytical Decision-Making
- Change Management & Communication
- Culture & Engagement Leadership
- HR Tech & DigitalTransformation
- Team Building& People Leadership
