HR Manager at Farmers Fresh Zone · Kochi (Cochin) · 5 - 10 years · ₹5L - ₹10L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 17 May 2022

We are all in the quest to create a positive movement, a movement aimed at reducing the gap between a consumer & a farmer, a movement that gives consumers access to safe & non-toxic farmer's produce, a movement that is uplifting the farmer community.
Today we are proud to say that we are connecting 1500+ farmers to urban consumers. We envisage our brand to go global soon, post creating a cemented presence in India.
We are not looking for job-seekers, we are looking for impact-creators with a go-getter attitude. We are looking for dynamic individuals who are honestly driven by the cause and are customer-obsessed, be it our end-user, farmer, vendor, or even our internal community.
Job role:
We’re on the lookout for a Human Resources Manager to own the entire HR activities across the company - everything from recruiting and onboarding to performance management and compensation. The role will involve working, side-by-side, the key business stakeholders to foster a positive environment and make sure the company’s mission and goals are effectively implemented and respected.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for talent acquisition; employee relations consultation; policy interpretation and application, change management; performance and compensation management; and talent management for business in all the geographies
- Work closely with the Operations team - Distribution Centre & Hubs and deliver based on the business objectives of the respective geography to meet the HR objectives.
- Ensure Labor Law related compliance across the location with reference to all applicable Labor Laws.
- Partners with Payroll; HRIS; and Employee benefit functions as required to facilitate smooth functioning
- Drive Employee engagement programs across the locations to enhance productivity and morale building.
- Effective Manpower Planning strategies for present and future requirements across geographies
- Design and implement programs to improve morale and relationships
- Provide counseling for relationship management including dispute resolution and team building
- Prepare periodic reports for management with recommendations and trends
- Provide expertise and offer advice to employees in areas like career planning, employee relationships, strategic development etc.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience working as a HR manager or in a similar position preferred
- Experience of working in a manufacturing/retail, intensive operations centric, high turnover multi locations organization set up with diverse workforce like Retail, Ecommerce, Logistics, Manufacturing, Construction, Health care, Consumer facing industries.
- Proven experience developing and executing strategies designed to improve employee morale
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of local and federal laws and HR best practices
- Strong business focus and ability to build trust across all levels in the organization.
- Proven experience developing and implementing solutions to highly complex ambiguous situations that call for ingenuity and creativity
- Open to travel.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong interpersonal communications skills
- Knowledge of Malayalam essential.

About Farmers Fresh Zone
About
Farmers Fresh Zone, is an Direct to Consumer Brand Backed by the Indian Angel Network which caters to 5 South Indian cities. We are catering to urban customers with our safe-to-eat, pesticide free fruits & vegetables directly sourced from our farmers. We are enabling this by a technology driven platform working on a demand prediction model. To guarantee trust in our customers, we have introduced a feature called ‘Know your Farmer’. And we’re proud to say that, we are one of India's first agri-tech firms to introduce unit level traceability for all our products which means consumers can track the origin of a product including details of the farms and farmers. Through this feature, a customer can see where the product has been harvested, who’s been harvesting and how long it’s been harvested. Here’s our website info- https://www.farmersfz.com/
We are all in the quest to create a global brand in the fresh category driven by technology which gives access to healthy food and to foster a healthy living. We are inviting you to be part of this positive movement, a movement aimed at reducing the gap between a consumer & a farmer, a movement that gives consumers access to safe & non-toxic farmer's produce, a movement that is uplifting the farmer community.
We are a team of very young individuals and are hiring for multiple roles to expand our operations across multiple geographies or as a part of scaling up.
You can read where we got featured in the Economics Times- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-bytes/agri-tech-firm-introduces-traceability-feature-know-your-farmer/articleshow/82196279.cms
Yourstory-https://yourstory.com/2020/09/funding-alert-kerala-agritech-startup-farmers-fresh-zone-ian-fund/amp
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