Human Resources Manager

The Leaders Hive; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

The Leaders Hive in Bengaluru, India is seeking a seasoned HR professional to partner with leadership across talent acquisition, operations, and employee engagement. The role drives workforce planning, onboarding, and development initiatives to build a high-performing culture.

You will lead recruitment, nurture employer branding, and steward HR processes from hire to offboarding, while collaborating with business leaders to implement people strategies in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of experience across talent acquisition, HR operations, employee engagement, learning & development, and business partnering.
• Experience in fast-paced environments, preferably startups, incubators, or innovation ecosystems.
• Good understanding of HR best practices, labour laws, and statutory compliance; exposure to payroll and performance management is a plus.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers on workforce planning and hiring needs.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment, including sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offers, and onboarding.
• Build talent pipelines, track hiring metrics, and drive recruitment process improvements.
• Support employer branding initiatives to attract quality talent.
• Lead employee engagement, wellness, and culture-building initiatives.
• Drive internal communication and employer branding efforts.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and values-driven workplace.
• Partner with business leaders on people initiatives and workforce planning.
• Advise managers on employee relations, engagement, and HR best practices.
• Support organisational change and build strong stakeholder relationships.
• Identify learning needs and implement organisation-wide L&D initiatives.
• Coordinate leadership development, capability-building, and employee training programmes.
• Evaluate training effectiveness and foster a culture of continuous learning.
• Develop HR dashboards and reports on key people metrics.
• Analyse workforce data to generate insights and support decision-making.
• Manage the employee lifecycle from onboarding to separation.
• Maintain HR policies, SOPs, and process documentation.
• Oversee HR operations, including HRIS, employee records, documentation, contracts, and policy administration.
• Ensure compliance with organisational policies and support internal and HR audits.
• Drive process improvements to enhance operational efficiency.

Skills

Talent acquisition

HR operations

Employee engagement

Learning & Development

HR Business partnering

Education

Master's degree in Human Resources or MSW-HR

Tools

HRIS

Payroll systems

Job description

• Partner with hiring managers on workforce planning and hiring needs.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment, including sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offers, and onboarding.
• Build talent pipelines, track hiring metrics, and drive recruitment process improvements.
• Support employer branding initiatives to attract quality talent.

Employee Engagement & Culture

• Lead employee engagement, wellness, and culture-building initiatives.
• Drive internal communication and employer branding efforts.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and values-driven workplace

HR Business Partnering

• Partner with business leaders on people initiatives and workforce planning.
• Advise managers on employee relations, engagement, and HR best practices.
• Support organisational change and build strong stakeholder relationships

Learning & Development

• Identify learning needs and implement organisation-wide L&D initiatives.
• Coordinate leadership development, capability-building, and employee training programmes.
• Evaluate training effectiveness and foster a culture of continuous learning.

HR Analytics & Reporting

• Develop HR dashboards and reports on key people metrics.
• Analyse workforce data to generate insights and support decision-making.

HR Operations & Administration

• Manage the employee lifecycle from onboarding to separation.
• Maintain HR policies, SOPs, and process documentation.
• Oversee HR operations, including HRIS, employee records, documentation, contracts, and policy administration.
• Ensure compliance with organisational policies and support internal and HR audits.
• Drive process improvements to enhance operational efficiency.

Good to Have

• Exposure to payroll processes.
• Knowledge of statutory compliance and labour laws.
• Experience with performance management processes.
• Familiarity with HRMS and HR analytics tools.
• Experience in startups, incubators, or fast-paced organisations.

Requirements

What you will need to bring to the table

• Master's degree in Human Resources or MSW-HR from Tier-1 college
• 4–7 years of experience across talent acquisition, HR operations, employee engagement, learning & development, and business partnering.
• Experience working in fast-paced environments, preferably startups, incubators, or innovation ecosystems.
• Good understanding of HR best practices, labour laws, and statutory compliance; exposure to payroll, performance management, and HRMS is an added advantage.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently.