INDIA CHRO

Mastersearch Hr Associatesliability Partn Ership; India; On-site; INR 8,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastersearch Hr Associatesliability Partn Ership seeks a Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) to lead strategic HR globally from Delhi/NCR, partnering with the CEO and Board to shape people strategy for rapid transformation and international expansion.

The role requires exceptional leadership, broad enterprise HR experience, and the ability to integrate workforce planning, leadership development, talent acquisition, and organisation effectiveness across multi-location operations; reporting to

Qualifications

• Seasoned CHRO or senior enterprise HR leader with global experience.
• Experience leading transformation, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Ability to align HR strategy with enterprise objectives and investor expectations.

Responsibilities

• Operate as trusted advisor to CEO, Global CHRO, Board and senior leaders.
• Lead large-scale HR transformation across globally integrated teams.
• Drive leadership development, succession planning, and culture integration.
• Oversee talent acquisition, employer branding, and retention at scale.
• Advance HR digitisation and people analytics to enable growth.

Skills

Leadership

Executive stakeholder management

People analytics

HR strategy

Global workforce management

Job description

Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) | Delhi NCR

Strategic HR Leadership | Global Technology & IT Services

A globally admired Technology and IT Services leader with a substantial international footprint and rapidly expanding India operations is seeking an exceptional Chief Human Resources Officer to lead a critical phase of strategic growth, organisational transformation, leadership integration, and global talent scale-up.

Reporting directly to the Global CHRO, this high-visibility mandate offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide people strategy while working closely with the CEO, Board, global business leaders, and senior international stakeholders.

The role is designed with a long-term global leadership trajectory, making it particularly attractive to an accomplished HR leader seeking broader enterprise and international responsibility.

The Leadership Mandate

• Partnering with the Global CHRO, CEO, Board, and senior international leadership on enterprise-wide people strategy and organisational direction.
• Leading large-scale HR transformation across complex, globally integrated workforce ecosystems.
• Driving leadership development, succession architecture, organisation effectiveness, workforce planning, and culture integration.
• Building a future-ready leadership pipeline aligned with global expansion and business transformation priorities.
• Strengthening executive talent acquisition, leadership engagement, employer branding, retention, and high-performance culture.
• Advancing HR digitisation, people analytics, AI-enabled HR practices, and scalable talent systems.
• Partnering with leaders across Technology, Digital Engineering, Consulting, AI, Cloud, Platforms, and Global Services.
• Establishing strong HR governance, stakeholder alignment, and organisational effectiveness across distributed global operations.
• Translating business strategy into differentiated people strategies that support growth, productivity, innovation, and leadership continuity.

What Will Define Success

This role is fundamentally a Business HR Leadership mandate.

Outstanding leadership capability, strategic judgement, executive maturity, and sophisticated stakeholder management will define the successful incumbent.

You will be expected to:

• Operate as a trusted advisor to the CEO, Global CHRO, Board, and senior business leadership.
• Influence enterprise decisions through strong business understanding and people insight.
• Lead through complexity, transformation, scale, and organisational change.
• Build credibility across diverse global leadership teams and highly matrixed environments.
• Balance strategic vision with strong operational discipline and execution.
• Shape leadership culture and organisational capability at enterprise scale.

Ideal Leadership Profile

The opportunity is suited to a distinguished HR leader with experience in one or more of the following environments:

• Technology and IT Services
• Digital Engineering
• Global Consulting
• Global Capability Centres, GCCs
• SaaS and Product Technology
• AI and Cloud
• BPM and Global Services
• Large multinational or internationally integrated organisations

The ideal profile will demonstrate:

• Extensive experience leading large, multi-location and internationally integrated workforce ecosystems.
• Proven success in transformation-led growth, organisation restructuring, leadership succession, executive hiring, culture integration, and scale management.
• Strong exposure to global leadership teams, Boards, investors, and senior business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate HR strategy closely with business strategy and enterprise priorities.
• Strong strategic orientation supported by operational depth and execution excellence.
• Experience building leadership pipelines and organisational capability for sustained growth.
• Prior experience as a CHRO or senior enterprise HR leader within a globally respected organisation is preferred.
• Versatile experience across business HR, transformation, talent, organisation effectiveness, leadership development, and enterprise HR strategy.

A Long-Term Global Leadership Opportunity

This is an opportunity for an accomplished HR leader to move beyond a traditional HR leadership mandate and assume a broader role in shaping enterprise growth, leadership architecture, organisational transformation, and global talent strategy.

Professionals with strong enterprise leadership capability, broad and versatile HR experience, and clear long-term global career aspirations are likely to find this mandate particularly compelling.

Reporting to: Global CHRO

Level: India-Enterprise HR Leadership