# Leader, People Consulting

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Leader, People Consulting for India and South Asia, your role has two parts:

- Lead a team of 2 Country Consultants to provide country-wide, function-agnostic support to all employees in India and South Asia.

- Act as a Country Consultant for India and South Asia to drive compliance, change, and employee engagement in-country.

Responsibilities include:

- Providing direction and support to your team in day-to-day operations

- Cultivating a positive, inclusive culture and fostering collaboration among team members and stakeholders

- Enhancing team synergy to deliver maximum value to the business

- Coaching and mentoring team members for professional growth and navigating changes effectively

- Contributing to the overall management of APJC CA team

- Role-modelling setting standards for solution-first thinking, strategic alignment, and proactive ownership

- Partnering with Country P&C (HR) leader, People Partners (HRBP), and other Country Consultants in India to understand the business needs and ensure local activities and initiatives match the business strategy

- Co-owning complex country compliance and legislation requirements in-country

- Supporting execution of cross-functional projects, such as restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, and divestiture

- Supporting critical Employee in Crisis escalations

- Representing HR externally and driving local Cisco brand strategy

- Acting as a connector across P&C, country leadership, EROs, etc., bringing the right people together, driving integrated outcomes, and ensuring the ecosystem stays aligned

- Using AI to reimagine how work gets done, documenting what works, sharing it, and building institutional knowledge that benefits the broader team.

Requirements:

- Trusted HR consultant, advisor, and coach

- Business acumen and effective stakeholder management and communication skills

- Country knowledge and local HR expertise

- Global approach, curious, and keen to develop knowledge and acquire/share global standard methodologies

- Solution-first mindset

- Sound judgement and ability to manage ambiguity

- Change catalyst with the ability to influence

- Experienced people leader

## Skills

### Required
- HR consulting
- Business acumen
- Stakeholder management
- Communication skills
- Country knowledge
- Local HR expertise
- Global approach
- Solution-first mindset
- Change management
- Leadership

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