HR Team Lead

D2P Autoparts; Anand; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

D2P Autoparts is building an India HR team and seeks an HR Team Lead to own the employee experience, culture and performance. You will manage performance, recruitment, training and the use of AI to enhance HR effectiveness across the India group.

You will work closely with senior management to ensure accountability, high engagement, and a strong high-performance culture, while embedding scalable HR processes and analytics.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years HR experience across recruitment, employee management and performance.
• Experience managing or supporting a team with performance management and employee relations.
• Experience handling disciplinary matters and sensitive situations.
• Strong recruitment, interviewing, and interpersonal skills.
• Highly organised, process-oriented, with good judgement and confidentiality.
• Comfortable working with senior management; proactive and hands-on.
• Experience building training programmes and HR analytics/dashboards.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools at work and improving productivity or reducing attrition.

Responsibilities

• Own employee experience and performance for the India team; manage performance reviews and KPIs.
• Handle employee management, discipline, grievances and policy adherence.
• Oversee training, induction, development plans and onboarding programmes; coordinate with managers.
• Drive culture, engagement initiatives, recognition programmes and team-building activities.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment, job descriptions, sourcing, interviewing and onboarding.
• Apply AI and modern tools across HR functions: sourcing, screening, interview prep, onboarding, training and analytics.

Skills

HR management

performance management

employee relations

recruitment

interviewing

communication

confidentiality

HR analytics & dashboards

AI in HR

training & development

Tools

HRIS/ATS

data reporting

Job description

As we build out our India team, we're looking for an exceptional HR Team Lead to take ownership of our people, culture and performance.

This is not a traditional HR administration role. We want someone who can help us build a high-performing organisation who understands that great HR isn't about policies and processes, but about getting the very best out of people.

The Role

As HR Team Lead, you'll own the employee experience and performance of our India team. The role spans people management, performance, discipline, recruitment, training, development, motivation, culture and the use of AI to make HR more effective.

Working closely with senior management, you'll help ensure we have:

• The right people in the right roles, with clear expectations and accountability
• High productivity, strong engagement and motivation
• Excellent training and development, and a positive high-performance culture
• Effective recruitment, team-building and efficient, technology-enabled HR processes

We want someone hands-on, commercially minded and comfortable holding people accountable.

Key Responsibilities

1. Performance & Productivity

• Set clear KPIs, KRAs and performance expectations
• Build effective review, appraisal and feedback processes
• Monitor individual and team performance; identify and resolve productivity issues
• Work with managers to tackle underperformance rather than let it persist
• Recognise and reward high performers; build structured improvement plans for those falling short

2. Employee Management & Discipline

• Manage grievances, conflicts and behavioural, attendance and punctuality issues
• Support managers with disciplinary matters and ensure policies are followed
• Investigate issues fairly and objectively, with appropriate documentation
• Develop clear processes for repeated underperformance or misconduct
• Ensure employees understand what's expected of them

3. Training & Development

• Identify individual and organisational training needs
• Build structured training, onboarding and induction programmes
• Coordinate technical, functional and soft-skills training; help managers develop their teams
• Set development plans for high-potential employees and track training effectiveness
• Explore how AI can transform training personalised learning, AI-assisted content, role-specific programmes and knowledge tools

4. Culture, Engagement & Motivation

• Design initiatives to improve engagement and understand what motivates different people
• Build recognition and reward programmes and organise team-building activities
• Create feedback mechanisms and spot morale issues before they escalates
• Promote teamwork, and create an environment where ambitious people want to succeed

5. Recruitment & Team Building

• Own the end-to-end recruitment process and work with managers on hiring needs
• Write and improve job descriptions; source via LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, referrals and other channels
• Screen, shortlist and improve interviewing and assessment
• Build talent pipelines and an employee referral programme
• Track recruitment metrics, improve offer-to-joining conversion and deliver excellent onboarding

6. AI & HR Technology

Apply AI and modern tools across the HR function; candidate sourcing, CV screening and assessment, interview prep and evaluation, onboarding, training and content creation, employee knowledge and FAQs, performance management, reporting and analytics, engagement, internal communication and HR administration.

What We're Looking For

Essential

• 5-8+ years of HR experience across recruitment, employee management and performance
• Experience managing or supporting a team, and a strong grasp of performance management and employee relations
• Experience handling disciplinary and difficult employee situations
• Strong recruitment, interviewing, communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly organised and process-oriented, with strong judgement and confidentiality
• Comfortable working with senior management; proactive and hands-on
• Experience building training programmes and working with HR analytics and dashboards
• Demonstrable use of AI tools at work, and a track record of improving productivity or reducing attrition.

Particularly Valuable

• Experience in a fast-growing company or a performance-driven environment (e-commerce, technology, SaaS or BPO)
• Experience managing 100+ employees and implementing HR systems or processes

The Person We're Looking For

Performance-driven People-focused Confident Commercial Proactive Tech & AI curious Hands-on Fair and trustworthy

What Success Looks Like

After 12 months, we want to see:

• A stronger, more accountable India team with clear KPIs and expectations
• Faster identification and resolution of performance issues, and improved productivity
• Better recruitment and higher-quality hires, with structured onboarding and training
• Stronger engagement and motivation, and a clear development pathway for high performers
• Better HR processes and reporting, and meaningful use of AI across HR and training
• A strong, positive, performance-oriented culture

Ultimately, your success will be measured by the quality, performance and development of the people you help us build.

Why Join D2P?

This is a chance to have a real impact on a growing international business. You won't be joining a large corporate HR department where your role is limited to one small area.

You'll build and shape our HR function, work directly with senior management, introduce new technology and AI, and help create the team and culture that will drive D2P's next stage of growth.

If you're ambitious, enjoy working with people and technology, and want to build something rather than simply maintain it we d love to hear from you.