About the role:
GLG's Gurugram office is a global capability center (GCC) housing the full spectrum of GLG's functions - research, technology, operations, finance, legal, and more. Teams are embedded into global and regional structures, with leaders distributed across time zones. This creates a distinctive HR challenge: the HRBP must hold the site together as a coherent people organization while respecting the diversity of functional reporting lines and global HR frameworks.
The Senior Director / Director, HRBP is the senior-most HR leader in Gurugram. You are the primary HR partner to the Gurugram Site Head and the face of HR for the employees on-site. At the same time, you collaborate daily with global functional HRBPs (who partner with the same business groups from a functional lens).
This is a high-impact, dual-track role: strategic enough to co-own the Gurugram people agenda with site leadership, and hands-on enough to ensure flawless day-to-day HR execution for a complex, multi-function India workforce.
What you will own:
Site HR leadership:
Serve as the primary HR partner to the Gurugram Site Head -- the go-to person for all people matters affecting the India site, from workforce planning and org design to culture, engagement, and crisis response.
Represent Gurugram employees in global HR conversations, ensuring their interests, career opportunities, and experience are visible to global leadership.
Own the Gurugram employer brand and retention strategy, addressing GCC-specific challenges: attrition management, career pathing for employees with overseas functional leaders, and engagement across distributed team structures.
Ensure full compliance with Indian labor law -- PF, ESI, Gratuity, POSH, Shops and Establishments Act, Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act -- and maintain audit-ready HR practices across the India entity.
Strategic HR business partnering:
Proactively develop, recommend, and implement a Gurugram people strategy tied to GLG's business goals, covering org development, talent acquisition, performance management, retention, learning and development, and employee relations.
Assess organizational capability against business strategy; translate business needs into HR interventions that have measurable impact.
Act as a trusted advisor and coach to senior India leaders and managers, providing thought leadership on team effectiveness, leadership development, and culture.
Use a strong commercial mindset and deep understanding of your business groups to anticipate people challenges before they escalate.
Use data and HR analytics to identify trends, focus resources, mitigate risk, and inform the people strategy.
Matrix and global collaboration:
Navigate a complex multi-stakeholder environment: you have a primary accountability to the Gurugram Site Head while also partnering with global functional HRBPs who cover the same employee population from a functional lens. Clarity of lane, strong relationships, and proactive communication are essential.
Partner with global HRBPs to deliver consistent, high-quality HR support to Gurugram employees within global frameworks.
Contribute to and lead local and global HR projects and strategic initiatives as required.
People and team leadership
Build, manage, and develop the Gurugram HR team, setting clear expectations, coaching for growth, and holding the team to high execution standards.
Drive a culture of feedback, high performance, and continuous improvement within your team and across the Gurugram business.
Partner with business leaders on performance management, career progression, promotion processes, and job re-leveling.
HR operations and compliance:
Oversee all day-to-day HR activities for Gurugram, ensuring timely and accurate execution of annual cycles: compensation review, performance management, talent review, promotion and re-leveling.
Interpret and apply company policies and procedures; ensure alignment with India statutory requirements and proactively…