People & Performance Business Partner

Twinings

Strategic HR partner for BizTX at Twinings Ovaltine, driving people strategy and operational HR activities. Collaborating globally to enhance organisational effectiveness and employee engagement.

Posted 7/8/2026full-time🇮🇳 IndiaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as a strategic HR partner to business leaders with an initial focus across India and South Africa, aligning people priorities with business objectives and driving organisational effectiveness.
Establish and mature the HRBP function in these locations, with progressive expansion of scope to support additional geographies and global business initiatives as regional operations stabilise and organisational needs evolve.
Build strong relationships with People Managers through regular 1:1s, providing guidance and coaching in driving team effectiveness and keeping them informed on key People & Performance initiatives.
Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to shape and execute the resourcing strategy, actively contributing to interviews with a focus on cultural alignment.
Lead the delivery of a competitive reward strategy, continuously reviewing remuneration against best practice, and manage the annual pay review in partnership with the Director of People & Performance.
Drive the Engage strategy for BizTX, based on key focus areas from the engagement survey results.
Design and deliver people improvement projects, including Women in Leadership, Women in Tech, wellbeing, DE&I, employee engagement, talent development and HR transformation.
Support organisational design and change projects, providing HR interventions that enable delivery of business and functional strategies.
Champion BizTX’s Thrive and Be Awesome culture, promoting adoption and engagement with the app.
Act as Employment Law lead, ensuring effective employee relations and advising the wider UK HR community on ER matters. Work in partnership with HR in-country for jurisdictional advice where required, and with an approach to continually expand employment law knowledge beyond India.
Own the talent agenda for BizTX, driving development, succession planning and stakeholder engagement under the guidance of the Director of People & Performance.
Serve as a catalyst for positive change, identifying risks, recommending improvements, and implementing solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Educated to degree level or equivalent, with a professional qualification. Qualification in psychometrics seen as advantageous.
Track record of balancing the operational and strategic HR agendas in an evolving, fast-paced global business unit.
Comprehensive all-round HR generalist knowledge across, recruitment, reward, change, development and employee engagement/relations agendas.
Strong evidence of delivering results, working with senior leadership and senior stakeholders across a matrixed international structure.
Organisation design and development.
Experience of working in an international organisation and business unit.
Skilled user of psychometric tools for assessment & development.
A natural Coach, skilled at developing and coaching individuals and teams.
A track record of dealing with complex ER issues.
Driving successful engagement initiatives.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to simplify the complex.
Able to influence others.

Benefits

Comp & perks

- Monthly phone bill maximum reimbursement limit is Rs.3000.
- Annual check-up for employee and spouse including Doctor consultation - reimbursement up to INR 15,000.
- Medical Insurance 5 lakhs Flat Coverage.
- PF and Gratuity.
- Long Service Policy.
- Life Term Policy
- Monthly Broadband Bill Reimbursement - Rs.2000 or on actual whichever is lower
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Access to ABF Networking, connect, collaborate, and grow across the ABF Group.

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Hard Skills & Tools

HR Generalist KnowledgeRecruitmentReward StrategyChange ManagementPsychometric AssessmentSuccession PlanningEngagement InitiativesCoachingOrganisational Effectiveness

Soft Skills

Interpersonal SkillsCommunication SkillsInfluencing SkillsCoaching Skills

Certifications

Degree Level EducationProfessional Qualification