HR Business Partner-Supply Chain,India

About the Role

As Manager – India Supply HR Business Partner, you will partner with the India Supply Chain Leadership Team, driving and executing the people agenda across Supply Chain operations in India. You will translate the AMEA & GTR Supply Chain People Strategy into actions and outcomes for India. The role provides HR partnership across Talent, Culture, Leadership, Capability, Organizational Effectiveness, Employee Relations, and People Practices, ensuring HR fundamentals, governance, and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with India Supply Chain leaders to translate business priorities into an actionable people agenda.
• Provide coaching and counsel to leaders and people managers on organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, performance, employee relations, compensation, talent, and capability.
• Act as a trusted HR partner and first point of contact for Supply Chain HR matters in India.
• Lead and support key organizational and people change initiatives.
• Drive the Talent Review and succession planning process for India Supply Chain, ensuring strong pipelines for critical roles.
• Identify high-potential and critical talent and create development and retention plans.
• Coach managers on talent development, career conversations, and development planning.
• Support internal mobility and Talent Exchanges.
• Recruit and integrate high-quality candidates according to business needs.
• Coordinate with contracting agencies to support plant operations.
• Embed and build capability of leaders on Bacardi’s new talent processes.
• Ensure Leadership Behaviors are implemented and embedded.
• Drive performance management and calibration processes.
• Ensure high-quality goal setting and performance conversations through quarterly "Let’s Talks".
• Embed a culture of recognition.
• Support the business in delivering relevant and targeted training and development for Supply Chain teams.
• Ensure functional and technical training requirements are in place for bottling line operators.
• Ensure consistent implementation of HR policies and processes across India Supply Chain.
• Ensure compliance with applicable employment and labour requirements.
• Maintain strong HR data discipline, particularly in Workday, and use people data and analytics for decision-making.
• Build strong relationships and understand employee sentiment across Supply Chain locations.
• Proactively manage employee relations matters, grievances, and workplace issues.
• Partner with plant leadership on labour relations and worker-management processes.
• Conduct or support objective investigations.
• Provide direct leadership and development for the local Operations HR function and direct report in India.
• Travel to Supply Chain locations to stay connected with stakeholders.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• HR Business Partnering experience
• Experience preferably within Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or Operations
• Experience across talent management, performance, employee engagement, capability building, organizational effectiveness, and employee relations.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic and matrixed environment.
• Ability to build trusted relationships.
• Ability to coach leaders.
• Ability to drive consistent execution of the people agenda.
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of full scope of Human Resources function.
• Stakeholder and matrix management and engagement.
• Curiosity and agility to adapt to changing context.
• Leader and coach who can support individuals and teams to deliver high performance.
• Engages and communicates well with all levels.
• Consistency, pragmatism and fairness.
• Interpersonal skills – builds and maintains strong relationships.
• Ability to influence, motivate and support HR programs.
• Strong relationship builder in complex organizational contexts.
• Ability to lead initiatives to build a stronger Global Supply Chain function.
• Building and motivating teams and individuals.
• Drive for results.
• Conflict resolution.
• Self-starter, works well with autonomy.
• Handles ambiguity with comfort.
• Ability to energize / inspire stakeholders.
• Good negotiation, communication skills.
• Proactive, decisive and entrepreneurial operating style.
• Outstanding demonstrated leadership skills.
• Builds high performing teams, developing direct reports and others.
• Positive, transparent and ethical leadership style.
• Non-bureaucratic, listens and people-oriented.
• Self-confident with a “can do” attitude.
• Strong capacity to create a culture of 'Belonging'.
• High levels of Self-Awareness.
• Deep ability to understand and relate to people (People Agility).
• Consistent delivery of results (Results Agility).
• Critical thinking to penetrate complex problems (Mental Agility).
• Strategic thinking whilst being execution focused.
• Natural curiosity, desire to experiment (Change Agility).
• Growth and learning mindset.
• Workday

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the business.
• Practical HR expertise.
• Experience across talent management, performance, employee engagement, capability building, organizational effectiveness, and employee relations.