Head of Human Resources (HR Head)

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  • Kolkata, West Bengal
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 3 days ago
Location: Kolkata, India
Reporting To: Founder / Managing DirectorCore Responsibilities
1. HR Strategy & Organization Design
  • Define and execute a 3–5 year people and organization strategy aligned with DIPL’s growth ambitions.
  • Design scalable organization structures, role clarity, career paths, and leadership layers across delivery, engineering, sales, and corporate functions.
  • Lead workforce planning, succession planning, and leadership capability development.
2. Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning
  • Own end-to-end hiring across technical, project, sales, and leadership roles.
  • Build a structured and predictable recruitment engine—sourcing strategy, interview frameworks, assessment tools, and onboarding processes.
  • Reduce dependency on ad-hoc hiring by creating sustainable talent pipelines.
3. Performance Management & Culture
  • Design and implement a performance management system (KPIs / OKRs, appraisal cycles, rewards, and consequences).
  • Institutionalize a culture of ownership, accountability, and execution excellence, particularly in project and delivery teams.
  • Proactively manage high performers, capability gaps, and underperformance
4. Building the Central Support Organization
  • Design, build, and scale high-quality support teams that enable frontline execution, including: o HR Operations o Talent Acquisition o Learning & Development o Internal Communications
  • Define clear service charters, SLAs, and accountability frameworks for support functions.
  • Move support teams from reactive, people-dependent operations to process-driven, systems-enabled shared services.
5. HR Operations, Policies & Compliance
  • Build and institutionalize HR policies, SOPs, and employee handbooks suitable for a scaling organization.
  • Ensure compliance with labour laws, statutory requirements, audits, and governance norms.
  • Oversee payroll, attendance, leave management, and the complete employee lifecycle
6. Leadership Partnering & Change Management
  • Act as a strategic partner to the Founder and senior leadership team.
  • Support organizational change initiatives including professionalization, system adoption (HRMS, ERP), and role clarity.
  • Coach first-time managers and leaders on people management, performance, and decision-making
  • Clear organization structure, role definitions, and performance systems across .
  • Predictable hiring and onboarding processes for critical roles.
  • Strong central support teams operating with defined SLAs and accountability.
  • Improved employee retention, leadership depth, and execution quality.
  • Reduced founder dependency for people and support-related decisions.
Why This Is an Exciting OpportunityThis role is designed for a senior HR leader who wants to build, not maintain.
  • True greenfield mandate with authority to design systems from first principles.
  • Direct impact on business outcomes—project delivery, leadership effectiveness, and scalability.
  • Founder-level visibility and influence; HR decisions will shape company strategy.
  • Opportunity to create a best-in-class people and support engine in a fast-growing system integrator.
  • Clear path to evolve into a Chief People Officer / CHRO as the organization scales. For the right leader, this is an opportunity to leave a lasting institutional legacy.
Why You Should Not Apply Please do not apply if:
  • You are seeking a maintenance or administrative HR role.
  • You are uncomfortable operating in ambiguity or founder-led environments.
  • You avoid difficult conversations around performance, accountability, or exits.
  • You prefer inheriting mature systems rather than building teams and processes from scratch.
  • You see HR primarily as an employee-relations or event-management function rather than a business enabler.
  • You are unwilling to be accountable for the effectiveness of support teams, not just HR. This role is demanding and requires strong judgment, backbone, and execution discipline.
Experience
  • 8+ years of progressive HR leadership experience.
  • Prior experience in IT services, system integration, infra-tech, engineering-led, or project-driven organizations.
  • Experience building HR and support functions in mid-sized, scaling, founder-led companies.
Skills & Mindset
  • Strong grounding in organization design, performance management, and labor compliance.
  • Highly execution-oriented with strategic depth.
  • Comfortable building systems, teams, and culture from zero to scale.
  • High credibility with leadership and employees alike.
Education • MBA / Postgraduate qualification in HR, Organizational Development, or related field.

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