Branch HR Manager (Chennai, IN)

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior HR Manager - Branch to lead the end-to-end people agenda for a branch workforce, partnering closely with business leaders to drive talent, performance, engagement, and workforce effectiveness. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the branch has the right people, capabilities, and organizational readiness to achieve business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with branch leadership to drive business-aligned people strategies and HR initiatives.

• Lead branch recruitment delivery, ensuring quality hiring, effective stakeholder management, and seamless onboarding of new employees.

• Govern and execute key people processes including goal setting, performance management, talent reviews, promotions, succession planning, and learning initiatives.

• Drive workforce planning and talent pipeline initiatives to ensure timely availability of critical talent.

• Support leadership development and capability-building programs to strengthen organizational effectiveness and succession readiness.

• Partner with managers to enhance employee engagement, development, and overall employee experience.

• Enable successful implementation of HR policies, programs, and change initiatives across the branch.

• Leverage people insights and HR data to support informed business decisions and improve workforce outcomes.

• Collaborate effectively with HR Centers of Excellence, shared services teams, and business stakeholders to deliver integrated HR solutions.

Experience, Skills & Education Qualification

Experience

• 2 to 5 years of relevant Human Resources experience.

• Experience in an HR Business Partner or HR Centre of Excellence role.

• Strong understanding of core HR processes including talent acquisition, performance management, talent development, employee engagement, and workforce planning.

• Experience partnering with business leaders and managing multiple stakeholders.

• Exposure to commercial or branch HR environments will be an advantage.

Skills

• Strong business acumen and ability to align people strategies with business priorities.

• Expertise in talent management, succession planning, capability building, and performance management.

• Knowledge of organization design, job evaluation, workforce planning, and resource optimization.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive change, and build organizational capability.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to derive insights from HR data and metrics.

• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and coaching skills.

• High level of ownership, execution excellence, and process discipline.

Education Qualification

• MBA/Postgraduate Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

• Relevant professional HR certifications will be an added advantage.