Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Overview

Senior HR Business Partner role split between HR operations (about 70%) and talent acquisition for greenfield scaling (about 30%), supporting Generac's Pune, India site.

What you'll do

• Drive end-to-end execution of the candidate onboarding framework, covering pre-joining compliance, day-one orientation, asset allocation and policy immersion.
• Administer exit formalities, conduct exit interviews, coordinate clearance workflows and analyze attrition trends to give HR leadership actionable feedback.
• Consolidate attendance, leaves and variable components to deliver accurate and timely payroll inputs to payroll processing partners or stakeholders.
• Act as the primary liaison for group medical insurance, employee benefits execution and routine queries, ensuring smooth service delivery.
• Maintain 100% data integrity across Workday for job changes, org updates, transfers and new hires.
• Generate operational HR metrics, dashboards and audit-ready reports to support business reviews and compliance checks.
• Facilitate workplace culture initiatives, team-building activities, cross-functional knowledge sharing sessions and internal employee engagement committees.
• Serve as an approachable, first-line HR partner for employee queries and workplace grievances, escalating complex matters promptly.
• Maintain compliant electronic and hard-copy personnel files, employment contracts and statutory documentation.
• Support internal and external HR audits, maintaining strict alignment with local regulations and global organizational policies.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition COE and hiring managers to execute recruiting plans, active sourcing, screening and interview scheduling across technical and operational domains.
• Manage candidate communication from initial touchpoints through offer negotiations, release and pre-joining engagement to minimize drop-offs.
• Benchmark industry recruitment standards and leverage modern sourcing channels to meet aggressive greenfield growth targets.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration or a related field.
• 5–8 years of progressive HR Generalist or Operations experience, ideally within a Global Capability Centre (GCC), IT/Engineering R&D center or technology enterprise.
• Hands-on expertise in recruitment coordination, Workday, payroll data management and employee engagement delivery.
• Comfort with ambiguous, fast-paced environments and establishing operational rigor from scratch.
• Proven ability to source, screen and close technical and functional roles efficiently.
• Strong hands-on experience navigating HRIS platforms (Workday preferred) and managing clean dataset inputs.
• Clear, polished and empathetic verbal and written communication skills across all career levels.
• Strong organizational skills to plan, drive and execute site-wide engagement programs.

Nice to have

• MBA/PGDM in Human Resources.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.