Chief Human Resources Officer - IT Services - XLRI/TISS

Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO):

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:

The CHRO will serve as a strategic business and people leader, shaping the organisations next phase of growth through:

- 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:

- Top Tier MBA in HR - XLRI most preferred.

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

Location and Reporting:

- Reporting to: Global CHRO

- Level: India - Enterprise HR Leadership