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VP - HR | Scrabble & Jigsaw

Posted on December 27, 2022

Job Description

<div><b>Role:</b>&nbsp; Head - People &amp; Culture (Designated as Vice President)</div> <div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><b>Purpose of the role</b>:&nbsp; Help build Wheelocity as a great place to work.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><b>Key Objectives:</b></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Help reinforce&nbsp;great work culture through employee engagement:&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></div> <div>As the founding team of Wheelocity, we have laid out a clear culture code - a set of 8 core values and 5 &quot;ways of life&quot; that all Wheelocitians live by.&nbsp; While we have laid these out, I believe the success of this lies in embodying them and imbibing these values in the organization through various initiatives.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div>The HR-Head would&nbsp;be primarily expected to drive these values in the org through various employee engagement activities &amp; SRS (Stories-Rituals-Symbols).</div> <div>This is especially important given the fact that we have three types of teams (1) Product/Engineering teams based&nbsp;@ Bangalore (2) Strategy &amp; Corproate:&nbsp;teams&nbsp;@ Chennai (3) Field team; and that the aspirations/expectations of these teams are widely varying.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Build Wheelocity as a&nbsp;Talent Magnet for A-listers:</b></div> <div>The problem we&#39;re solving would require us to build out an all-star team of self-starters at all levels.&nbsp; The HR Head would play a pivotal role in attracting great talent into Wheelocity, and this is a key expectation from this role.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>3.&nbsp;<b>&nbsp;Build a robust Comp &amp; Ben Strategy to retain talent:</b></div> <div>Given the dynamics of the industry (SCM, Agri, tech) and the startup space in general, we will need to build a robust and scientific comp &amp; ben strategy inline with evolving industry needs.&nbsp; This would include monetary &amp; non-monetary aspects and we will need expert support on this.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Provide leadership to the Ops-HR team:</b></div> <div>We have a 6-member HR team already that takes care of the ops part of HR (salary/payroll, statutory, operational part of recruitment), as well as does a great job in field recruitment (this team basically help us ramp up to 250+ member field team in the past 12 months).&nbsp; &nbsp;While this team executes greatly, they will need leadership with respect to the direction, and will need a lot of guidance/handholding support as we grow.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><b>Ideal candidate persona:</b></div> <div>1.&nbsp; Two persona profiles possible:</div> <div> <ul> <li>A senior HR professional with 15+years of domain expertise.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> <li>Academically brilliant, with 7-9 years of experience with large growth aspirations.</li> </ul> </div> <div>2.&nbsp; At least 3 years of Startup experience is definitely needed (latest stint preferred)</div> <div>3.&nbsp; Be willing to go through with the founding &amp; leadership teams and push the team&nbsp;to embody our core values</div> <div>4.&nbsp; A strong personality with a change management mindset.&nbsp; High level of maturity is&nbsp;hence needed.</div> <div>5.&nbsp; Must be clear that they will step into an org with very diverse exepctations/requirements.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><b>Base:</b>&nbsp; Chennai HO.&nbsp; Travel to Bangalore one week per month would be needed</div> </div>
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