
Senior HR Business Partner
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Partner with the EMAP Product Leadership Team to align people strategy with business acceleration goals, focusing on productivity, capability, and engagement.
- Act as a coach and trusted advisor to senior leaders, helping them navigate transformation, evolving delivery models, and team performance challenges.
- Build workforce and org strategies that support sustainable scale, lean structures, and agile collaboration.
- Use data-driven insights (engagement, productivity, retention, talent health) to inform action and influence outcomes.
- Lead the rollout of people plans in partnership with Market and GDC HRBPs, ensuring global and regional initiatives are embedded effectively at the local level.
- Ensure clarity, consistency, and local adaptability in how people initiatives are implemented across regions.
- Translate strategic direction into actionable plans, with ownership for execution follow-through, monitoring, and improvement.
- Partner with cross-functional HR teams to coordinate delivery, remove blockers, and drive accountability.
- Support org design, structure alignment, and workforce planning to optimise team effectiveness and flow of work.
- Lead change management efforts, ensuring leaders and employees are well-supported through transitions and transformation initiatives.
- Bring clarity and simplification to operating models, team roles, and capability priorities.
- Shape and deliver talent strategies in partnership with leaders – including succession, mobility, and fit-for-future capability planning.
- Champion internal career growth and readiness by driving strong feedback, coaching, and development culture.
- Influence the design and delivery of leadership and team effectiveness programmes to support business needs.
- 8+ years in HR Business Partnering or HR leadership roles, preferably in product, SaaS, or tech-driven environments.
- Proven success in a matrixed environment with cross-border teams and Global Development center model.
- Experience balancing strategic input with hands-on execution – landing plans through others across diverse markets.
- Strong background in organisation design, change management, and leadership coaching.
- Commercial fluency and ability to link people solutions directly to business impact
- Strategic yet execution-oriented – able to connect the dots and deliver outcomes.
- Collaborative and highly effective at working across organisational and cultural boundaries.
- Strong communicator and influencer with presence and clarity at senior levels.
- Solutions-focused, proactive, and comfortable in high-complexity, fast-paced environments.
- Brings a mindset of continuous improvement, simplification, and focus.
- Degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or related field.
- Fluent in English (spoken and written).
- Willingness to travel occasionally within EMAP (~5%).