HR Manager

Role overview

Recruitment and workforce management

• Own recruitment across manufacturing, retail stores, e-commerce, marketing, operations, and corporate functions; prepare job descriptions and benchmark salaries.
• Source, screen, and shortlist candidates; manage interviews, salary negotiations, offers, background and document verification, and joining timelines.
• Build a talent pipeline and work with manufacturing leadership on manpower planning.
• Manage HR and employee lifecycle for manufacturing operators, workers, helpers, supervisors, retail store employees, and white-collar teams.
• Coordinate with store managers; monitor headcount, absenteeism, attrition, attendance, and manpower availability; support transfers, promotions, performance, and discipline.

HR operations and employee relations

• Manage hiring, documentation, onboarding, attendance, leave, payroll, performance, engagement, grievances, Full and Final settlement, and exits.
• Maintain employee master data, personnel files, HR documentation, HMS, payroll software, and accurate HR records.
• Drive engagement, motivation, and communication; handle grievances, conflicts, disciplinary matters, and employee concerns with managers.
• Support performance management, appraisals, and employee development; create and implement HR policies, SOPs, and processes.

Payroll, exits, and HR reporting

• Coordinate monthly payroll processing and manage attendance, leave, overtime, deductions, and other payroll inputs.
• Ensure compliance with PF, ESIC, PT, bonus, gratuity, TDS, and other applicable statutory requirements; coordinate with CA or payroll consultants and maintain records.
• Manage resignations, notice periods, exit formalities, Full and Final settlement, clearances, exit interviews, and attrition analysis.
• Prepare monthly HR dashboards on headcount, hiring, recruitment turnaround, attrition, absenteeism, manpower cost, payroll, and employee engagement; provide management insights.

Requirements

• 4–5 years of hands-on HR Generalist or HR Manager experience.
• Experience managing both blue-collar and white-collar employees.
• Hands-on HMS and payroll software experience is mandatory.
• Strong practical experience in end-to-end recruitment and employee lifecycle management.
• Good understanding of payroll, statutory compliance, and HR operations.
• Retail or store employee experience is preferred.
• Strong communication, negotiation, leadership, and problem-solving skills; ability to independently manage HR in a fast-growing entrepreneurial environment.

Workplace and schedule

• Work From Office in Pune; the description specifies NIBM Road, Kondhwa.
• Alternate Saturdays off; stated hours are 09:30 to 18:00.