People & Culture, Country Manager, India

The Team:

As our People and Culture, Country Manager India, you will be based out of our Bangalore office with a hybrid working model, reporting to our People and Culture lead for UKI & APJ.

In this role, you will work as an individual contributor at a strategic level, collaborating closely with the Country leaders, HR Business Partner(s) and be part of the EMEA P&C Team consisting of regional and global HRBPs, HR Managers and Generalists helping Celonis to successfully grow. Furthermore, you will collaborate closely with your colleagues across the global People & Culture Team.

The Role:

In this role, you play a critical role in the growth of the region. You will work on a wide range of international People & Culture management topics to design, optimize and implement diverse people processes and projects. Your daily tasks include a range of operational and project HR work in an international context. You will act as the first point of contact to leaders in India for all People-related matters. You must have a very good understanding of the India labor legislation and compliance regulations.

The work you’ll do:

• You will partner with the business and P&C team on growth of the India region. Sharing insights, recommendations and market practice. 
• You will partner with the country leader for India and the local Work Place representative to further build and enable a local culture based on Celonis values and principles where people can thrive.
• You will look after the employees on personnel-related and legal issues from onboarding to departure, including internal mobility.
• You will support our global HRBPs in the execution of the business P&C strategy with country managers and solve country People topics.
• You will partner with country leaders and work on people programs, performance issues and give administrative support in various People topics.
• In collaboration with our People Operations team you will create documents as well as reports and analyses.
• You are responsible for HR compliance and knowledge of handling employee relations, performance, disciplinary, POSH issues in the region. 
• You will work closely with the Legal and People compliance team on creating and aligning India specific policies to Global.
• You will be responsible for any visa and immigration compliance
• You will support the global benefits lead in enabling new and existing benefits
• You support in ensuring labor risk prevention
• You will own defined processes and act as SME for the team in collaboration with People
  Operations. This includes refining the process to make it better and increase automation.
• You support the yearly performance reviews
• As we grow you will represent the people function in India to the external world.

The qualifications you need:

• A university degree in the fields of business administration, social sciences, law or psychology, ideally with focus on HR Management
• 7+ years of experience in a similar role, ideally in a rapidly growing constantly changing environment
• International experience with working in a global approach to people and culture strategy.
• Previous HRBP experience working with executives and senior leaders
• Knowledge and hands on experience with India labor legislation and strong interest in related topics
• Hands-on mentality, independent way of working, high reliability and ability to work in a team, a growth mindset
• Experience working with HRM tools (ideally Workday)
• Business fluency in English with additional languages beneficial