Human Resources Business Partner - Operations SAPMENA Zone

L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry world leader with €42 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet. Our daring Operations team of thousands of exceptional minds don’t just work on complex challenges; They help create sustainable and inclusive beauty alongside our partners by crafting, innovating, sourcing, producing, and delivering millions of products and services that touch every corner of the globe.

Would you like to be a part of the adventure?

We have a suitable opening for the role of Human Resources Business Partner for the Operations Function for the SAPMENA zone.

You will join a collaborative, high‑performing HR team embedded in the Operations métier, supporting Manufacturing and Upstream functions across the SAPMENA zone. As HR Business Partner (Manufacturing & Upstream), reporting to the HR Director and based in Mumbai, you will be the strategic people lead for upstream teams—Sourcing, Packaging, Manufacturing, Development, Quality, EHS and others—partnering with site and zone leadership to design and deliver people plans that drive operational performance and transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business priorities into workforce plans; lead organisation design, role sizing and redeployment to optimise skills, capacity and costs.
• Lead attraction, selection and development initiatives; co‑design career management and succession plans with the HR Director to retain and grow critical talent.
• Define hiring priorities for critical Operations roles and design targeted sourcing strategies to build high‑quality pipelines for technical, frontline and leadership positions.
• Ensure rigorous, competency‑based selection and onboarding: enable hiring managers, streamline decisions and accelerate time‑to‑productivity and retention.
• Strengthen employer branding for Operations to ensure long‑term candidate pipelining.
• Partner with senior management to develop and implement employee engagement strategies, support manager action plans and lead employee communications.
• Drive HR projects, policies and practices that improve employee welfare, quality of work‑life and the organisation’s overall performance.
• Support HR aspects of Group transformation programs (Simplicity, Sustainability, Digital); design and lead strategic HR initiatives for the Operations function.
• Participate in headcount planning and budget management; provide workforce cost‑optimisation recommendations and redeployment solutions.
• Consolidate and analyse HR KPIs and annual reports; promote L’Oréal’s employer image, diversity and code of ethics while outlining HR risks and operational priorities for the business.
  
  

Key Relationships

• Reports to: HR Director- Upstream
• Internal Stakeholders – Upstream Business teams, Internal HR teams – Country HR, Plant HR, Global and Zone HR teams
• External Stakeholders – Suppliers, Vendors, External agencies and consultants.
  
  

Education

• MBA in Human Resources with 5-7 years of relevant experience
  
  

What’s In It For You

• A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you’ll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!)
• Real responsibility from day 1, there’s no sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal
• An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender and sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, will thrive and are celebrated!
• A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal /environmental causes to make concrete difference
  
  

We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and to advocating for hiring and promoting each candidate in an ethical and equitable way. The Group strictly prohibits discrimination against any applicant for employment because of the individual’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, visible and/or invisible disabilities, socio-economic and/or multicultural origins, health conditions, age, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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