General Manager - Human Resource Talent COE

About Godrej Industries Group

Godrej Industries Group reaches more than 1.1 billion consumers worldwide through businesses with leading positions in consumer products, real estate, agriculture, financial services, and chemicals.

Website: https://www.godrejindustries.com/

About Godrej Properties Limited

Godrej Properties applies the Godrej Group’s long-standing focus on innovation, sustainability, and excellence to the real estate sector. Its developments combine a 127+ year heritage of trust with modern design, technology, and sustainability.

Website: www.godrejproperties.com

Role Overview

The Head of Learning and Talent will shape organisational capability, talent growth, and performance through the Functional Academy framework. The role calls for designing competency-led learning journeys, building future-ready skills, and encouraging continuous learning across the organisation. It also involves leading talent review, succession planning, and high-potential development so workforce capability stays aligned with business priorities and future growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Create the vision, strategy, and operating structure for the Functional Academy.
• Build competency models for important business functions and define role-wise skill assessments and matrices.
• Work with business leaders and subject matter experts to design, validate, and refine learning initiatives.
• Develop learning pathways that support career progression and competency growth.
• Lead blended learning solutions that combine classroom sessions, digital modules, workshops, and on-the-job learning.
• Oversee curriculum design, instructional development, and learning content creation.
• Review learning interventions regularly to keep them relevant, high quality, and scalable across locations.
• Run talent identification and assessment processes to spot high performers and high-potential employees.
• Build and maintain succession plans for critical positions and future leadership roles.
• Support leadership development programs for emerging and senior leaders.
• Create development plans for high-potential talent to prepare them for future responsibilities.
• Partner with business leaders to assess talent pipelines and bench strength.
• Assess, select, and implement learning management systems and digital learning tools.
• Promote technology-enabled learning and virtual delivery approaches.
• Define learning KPIs, metrics, and ROI measurement methods.
• Prepare learning analytics reports to monitor effectiveness and learner progress.
• Use data insights to improve learning design and delivery continuously.
• Identify organisational capability gaps and create targeted interventions.
• Lead skill-building efforts across key functional areas.
• Support change management and capability enablement during organisational transformation.
• Strengthen internal training capability by creating trainer and facilitator development programs.
• Set up knowledge-sharing and peer-learning platforms.

Education

An MBA in HR from XLRI, TISS, SIBM, SCMHRD, MDI, or another reputed HR institute is required. Only candidates from the 2017 and 2018 batches are eligible.

Experience

Candidates should bring 8 to 10 years of total work experience, including at least 3 years in learning and development, talent management, or organisational development. The role also requires 3+ years of experience leading teams. Prior exposure to competency frameworks, learning journeys, talent review, succession planning, leadership development, LMS platforms, digital learning, and large or multi-location organisations is expected.

Skills Required

• Strategic alignment of learning initiatives with business goals
• People leadership and team management
• Instructional design and curriculum development
• Change management
• Data analysis and learning effectiveness measurement
• Project planning and execution
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Stakeholder influence and relationship building
• Business understanding and organisational awareness
• Emotional intelligence

Benefits

The organisation offers family-friendly support such as childcare benefits, paid caregiver leave, flexible work options after return, and caregiver travel support for primary caregivers on work trips with young children. It also covers childbirth and fertility treatment, provides gender-neutral anti-harassment policies, same-sex partner benefits equal to married spouses, and coverage for gender reassignment surgery and hormone replacement therapy. Additional support includes disability-focused care, comprehensive medical and accident insurance with top-up options, elder care, preventive healthcare including OPD, vaccinations, dental and vision, uncapped sick leave, mental wellness support, and structured recognition programs across individual, team, and business achievements. Flexible work arrangements, including remote and part-time work, are also available.

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity

Godrej states that discrimination has no place in the organisation. It follows a long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion, and it does not tolerate discrimination based on nationality, race, colour, religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, or marital status. The company positions itself as an equal opportunities employer that values merit and diversity.

Other Information

Work location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The role is remote-friendly. No vacancy count, salary, stipend, or start date has been specified.