# People Partner (8 - 12 Months Contract)

**Company**: OakNorth
**Location**: Gurugram
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a People Partner to support our growing India organisation, partnering closely with the Portfolio Monitoring, Credit Analytics, and Operations teams. This role blends hands-on execution with independent ownership across onboarding, engagement, performance processes, learning coordination, and employee experience.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with managers on day-to-day people matters, acting as a trusted point of contact for employees through connects, pulse check-ins, and engagement conversations.

- Proactively identify people risks and themes and work with leaders on mitigation plans.

- Own onboarding and early-tenure experience for new hires in collaboration with People Ops; support pre- and post-joining engagement to improve offer-to-join conversion and early retention.

- Analyse onboarding feedback and drive continuous improvement to the new hire experience.

- Lead planning and execution of team engagement initiatives, partnering with stakeholders to ensure high participation and meaningful impact.

- Support performance and promotion cycles end-to-end, including process coordination, data readiness, calibration preparation, and partnering with managers on feedback, development conversations, and role clarity.

- Support Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and learning programmes in partnership with L&D.

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in People Partnering or an HRBP role, with a strong understanding of the employee lifecycle, performance processes, and engagement levers.

- Confidence partnering with and influencing managers at various levels to drive people outcomes.

- Strong communication, organisational, and execution skills , comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

- A proactive, collaborative mindset with a genuine desire to support both people and the business.

Nice to Have:

- Experience supporting teams within a technology or fintech environment.

- Exposure to Learning & Development programme design or Training Needs Analysis.

## Skills

### Required
- People Partnering
- HRBP
- Employee Lifecycle
- Performance Processes
- Engagement Levers
- Communication
- Organisational
- Execution

### Nice to have
- Learning & Development programme design
- Training Needs Analysis
- Technology
- Fintech

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