Head of HR

Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India | Experience: Senior (12–15 years)

About the Company

Binding Minds is a certified Disability-Owned Business Enterprise focused on inclusive hiring and workforce excellence. The company helps organizations build diverse, high-performing teams through both contingent and permanent hiring across multiple industries. Its mission is to deliver inclusive, high-quality workforce solutions that improve hiring outcomes and support business growth. Binding Minds works with a centralized recruiting and delivery model, bringing speed, adaptability, and consistency to talent acquisition and people-facing engagements. The organization is positioned around disability inclusion, equity, and strong delivery standards, making it a fit for professionals who can operate with professionalism, resilience, and a strong service mindset.

Company Proof Points

• Binding Minds is a certified Disability-Owned Business Enterprise with a clear focus on inclusive hiring and workforce excellence.
• The company supports contingent and permanent hiring across multiple industries, which calls for strong operational control and adaptable delivery.
• Its positioning emphasizes diverse workforce solutions and accessible hiring practices.

Company Practices & Ways of Working

• The organization appears to operate through a centralized recruiting and delivery model across hiring needs.
• It values inclusive workplace principles and high standards of workforce delivery.
• The business context suggests a pace that rewards adaptability, ownership, and cross-functional coordination.

About the Role

The Head of HR will own the people agenda for the Gurugram location, with accountability for talent acquisition, employee relations, and talent management. The role is designed for a senior HR leader who can align hiring strategy with business needs, strengthen manager capability, and build an employee experience that supports retention and performance. Success in this role comes from creating consistent HR systems, solving people issues quickly, and ensuring the organization has the right talent in the right roles. The position requires a balance of strategic judgment and hands-on execution, with direct impact on workforce quality, engagement, and organizational stability.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full HR agenda for the location, translating business needs into practical people plans that improve hiring quality, employee stability, and leadership effectiveness.
• Lead talent acquisition strategy and execution, ensuring critical roles are filled with speed, rigor, and alignment to business priorities.
• Manage employee relations cases with sound judgment, timely intervention, and consistent policy application to reduce risk and maintain trust.
• Build and run talent management processes that strengthen performance, succession readiness, and manager capability across teams.
• Partner with business leaders on workforce planning, org design, and people decisions so the HR function supports growth rather than reacting to issues.
• Strengthen HR operating discipline through clear processes, reporting, and follow-through that improve accountability and decision quality.
• Shape a people culture that reinforces engagement, inclusivity, and retention while supporting a professional and high-performance environment.

Essential Skills & Technologies

• Deep experience in HR leadership across talent acquisition, employee relations, and talent management, with the judgment to balance policy, business needs, and employee outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence leaders, coach managers, and resolve sensitive people issues without losing speed or credibility.
• Practical knowledge of HR processes, employee lifecycle management, performance management, and workforce planning in a fast-moving organization.
• Ability to use HR data and reporting to spot patterns, improve decision-making, and measure the impact of people initiatives.
• Familiarity with employment practices, compliance basics, and location-level HR governance needed to keep the organization aligned and protected.
• Clear communication and problem-solving skills that help turn complex people challenges into workable, consistent actions.
• Comfort operating in a hands-on leadership role where strategy, execution, and escalation management all sit with the same person.

Additional Plus

• Experience in multi-industry or high-growth hiring environments where speed, adaptability, and service quality matter.
• Exposure to inclusive hiring or disability-inclusive workforce practices is helpful in this environment.
• Prior ownership of HR at a site, location, or business-unit level will be an advantage.

What You'll Bring

• A track record of owning HR outcomes rather than only processes, with evidence of improving hiring, engagement, and retention.
• Strong business partnership skills that help leaders make better people decisions and handle sensitive issues with consistency.
• The ability to build trust quickly across teams while maintaining high standards on performance, policy, and accountability.
• A practical, calm operating style that can handle ambiguity, pressure, and competing priorities without losing execution quality.

Why Join Us

This role offers the chance to shape the people function at a company that is built around inclusive hiring and high-quality workforce delivery. You will have direct ownership of the HR agenda for the Gurugram location, with visible impact on how the business attracts, develops, and retains talent. The environment should suit a senior HR leader who wants meaningful scope, direct access to decision-makers, and the opportunity to build strong people systems rather than simply administer them. Because the company works across multiple industries and hiring needs, the role offers variety, complexity, and the chance to influence both day-to-day operations and longer-term workforce capability. If you enjoy combining strategy with execution and want your work to improve both business performance and employee experience, this is a strong fit.

What We Offer

• A senior ownership role with direct influence on hiring quality, employee relations, and talent outcomes at the location level.
• Exposure to a diverse, inclusive workforce model that values strong delivery and practical leadership.
• The opportunity to shape HR processes and manager capability in a business that needs both speed and consistency.