Product Owner

HR Business Partner – Pondicherry

Employee Base: ~800 employees (500 + 300)

Language Requirement

·         Tamil – Mandatory

Role Scope

·         Floor engagement

·         Productivity enhancement

·         Work with business leaders on people solutions

·         Employee relations

·         Recruitment

·         Gemba Walk

·         5S activities

·         Performance efficiency programs

·         Employee committees

·         Engagement programs

·         Shutdown planning

·         Resolving business challenges involving people agenda

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Total/ Relevant Experience: 12-15 years

Business Understanding:

Understanding of Pharma/API business, Industry HR best practices,

Statutory and other legal requirements ((Labour Codes, Regulatory

Audits, etc.)

Knowledge

 Sound understanding, experience & expertise in managing employee

life cycle of HR.

 Should have managed workforce planning, Talent management and

employee engagement.

 Skilled in overall IR and related roles.

 Financial acumen of the business, products, variable cost and fixed

cost, especially the employee cost.

 Must be aligned with the strategic planning and business planning.

 Knowledge on developing industrial & employee relations strategies /

polices and its implementations. Compliances, negotiation, liaising and

legal handling skills

 Should have managed Government Officials/ Statutory officers etc.

Behavioural Skills

Interpersonal relationship, communication, assertive, Listening Skills,

Negotiations and Problem Solving, Influencing skills, Conflict

resolution, stakeholder management, emotional maturity, Resilience

and bias for action.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

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MEASUREMENT CRITERIA

Quantitative

Qualitative

1 Strategic Business Partnering  

  Partner with Production and Quality heads to forecast manpower needs based on

the production pipeline. Manage the "Manpower Cost per Kg" metric

 Conduct regular "HR Dipsticks" and "Stay Interviews" to gauge morale and

prevent the "Broken Rung" phenomenon in technical middle management

 Facilitate Floor engagement program for employees and contract workers (e.g.

GEMBA, 5S etc.)

 Lead site-level DEI initiatives, such as creating infrastructure and safety

protocols to increase female representation in QC/QA and Production

2 Talent & Performance Management  

  Work with Site Operations Head and functional leaders to set performance

expectation, facilitate performance support and performance feedback

 Drive the Annual Appraisal cycle, ensuring that KPIs are balanced between

output (volume) and quality (compliance/safety).

 Drive performance efficiency and productivity program in partnership with

Operations and Quality team.

 Identify High-Potential (HiPo) employees on the shop floor and create

development roadmaps to move them into supervisory roles

 Collaborate with the L&D team to facilitate "Functional Skill-up" programs for

employees

 Facilitate identification of Critical roles/ talents and work on succession planning

for the roles identified at the Site

3  Industrial Relations & Compliance

  Spearhead the site-level implementation of the New Labour Codes, specifically

communication to employees or workers on the changes and impacts of their

interest.

 Audit and oversee the lifecycle of contract labour, ensuring 100% compliance

with PF, ESI, and Gratuity provisioning

 Handle domestic inquiries and grievance redressal to maintain a strike-free

environment

 Develop relationship with Union leaders and related groups to ensure/

implement healthy work environment

4 Culture and Employee Engagement

  Promote a culture of transparency, discipline, and trust.

 Implement employee engagement and workplace climate improvement

initiatives.

 Lead employee engagement activities at Site and facilitate R&R program to

improvement employee engagement/ satisfaction score.

5 Stakeholder Management  

  Collaborate with Plant Heads, Site HR Head, Legal, Production, and Safety

functions.

 Build relationships with local bodies, industry associations, and government

officials.

 Work with cross-functional teams across sites/ corporate function to ensure

people agenda at Site is delivered effectively.

✅ Maintain and update employee records, attendance, and HR documentation.

✅ Assist in payroll processing and leave management.

✅ Support employee engagement and welfare initiatives.

✅ Ensure compliance with company policies and labor regulations.

✅ Coordinate with different departments to resolve HR-related queries.

Company Overview

VC-backed Fintech startup with an innovative online trading application seeking an experienced Frontend Engineer to join our growing team.

We're based out of UK and have our engineering team in India.

Job Description

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Responsibilities

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js
2. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
3. Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
4. Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
5. Maintain existing React systems, including fixing bugs
6. Handling backend infra written in Next/Node/Express

Skills

1. Strong proficiency in debugging, JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
2. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
3. Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
4. Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
5. Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
6. Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
7. Knowledge of isomorphic Next js and Node js is a plus
8. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
9. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
10. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
11. Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
12. Familiarity with basic authentication mechanism and security
13. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
14. A knack for benchmarking and optimization
15. Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git

[Please note: Our HQ is in Wales and we're in the process of creating an Indian Entity. This means that the candidate will be responsible for all Tax related compliances until the entity is setup.]

Data Engineer JD:

• Designing, developing, constructing, installing, testing and maintaining the complete data management & processing systems.
• Building highly scalable, robust, fault-tolerant, & secure user data platform adhering to data protection laws.
• Taking care of the complete ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) process.
• Ensuring architecture is planned in such a way that it meets all the business requirements.
• Exploring new ways of using existing data, to provide more insights out of it.
• Proposing ways to improve data quality, reliability & efficiency of the whole system.
• Creating data models to reduce system complexity and hence increase efficiency & reduce cost.
• Introducing new data management tools & technologies into the existing system to make it more efficient.
• Setting up monitoring and alarming on data pipeline jobs to detect failures and anomalies

What do we expect from you?

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5 years of recent experience in Big Data Engineering.
• Good experience in working with Hadoop and Big Data technologies like HDFS, Pig, Hive, Zookeeper, Storm, Spark, Airflow and NoSQL systems
• Excellent programming and debugging skills in Java or Python.
• Apache spark, python, hands on experience in deploying ML models
• Has worked on streaming and realtime pipelines
• Experience with Apache Kafka or has worked with any of Spark Streaming, Flume or Storm

Focus Area:

Onsite Opportunity for Oracle Fusion HCM Functional (TalentManagement/ CoreHR) Consultant’s – UAE. Exp.- 8+Years, Very strong in Fusion TalentManagement/ CoreHR. Atleast 2 e2e Implementation in Fusion TalentManagement/ CoreHR. Excellent Communication. Joining time: Max. 10 Days. Kindly contact Ramesh- 782, 938, 2777, rbguddanur AT appstec-me DOT com