Job Description

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world's key challenges - resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change.

About the Unit

For over a century, Yara has worked to feed the world and protect the planet, and our mission is to do this in a responsible and sustainable way. Yara delivers solutions for sustainable agriculture and the environment. Their fertilizers and crop nutrition programs help produce the food required for the growing world population. Yara's industrial products and solutions reduce emissions, improve air quality and support safe and efficient operations.

Founded in Norway in 1905, Yara has a worldwide presence with production and sales and services operations across countries i.e., America, Europe, Africa and Asia, with more than 17,000 employees, sales to 150 countries and sales revenue of more than 14 billion USD. Safety is always the top-most priority.

Yara Fertilizers India Pvt Ltd is a 100% subsidiary of Yara International ASA. Yara has supplied fertilizers as well as fertilizer raw materials to the Indian market for over two decades. Yara India has continuously strengthened its footprint in Western and Southern India by providing Crop nutrition solutions with combination of Premium products and Knowledge through unique Farmer centric approach.

Yara's philosophy is to connect with thousands of farmers at the grass root level and has a strong commitment to serving the agriculture sector in India, thereby improving the livelihood of Indian farmer. To leverage on this and to expand into the northern & eastern geographies of India, Yara acquired Tata Chemicals' 1.2 MN MT Urea plant in UP, Northern India. With this acquisition Yara India's scale of operation has grown significantly.

Roles and Responsibilities

He/ She is the overall in-charge of all activities related to HR Department and reports to Plant Manager. He/ She will oversee, administer, and review various HR processes at the site.

The key responsibilities related to HR department include:

Managerial role

• Contributes to the respective business agenda in alignment with global/regional business strategy.
• Provides key business insights to help shape site relevant people strategy.
• Applies people strategy based on site specifics and respective business priorities.
• Implementation and review of personnel / HR policies of the site.
• Advising line managers on promotion, job rotation and transfer of the employees.
• Advising line managers on disciplinary matters /action.

Operational role

• Key resource person for recruitment, selection, and placement of personnel.
• Maintain high level for morale and employee engagement in the site
• Ensure compliances are met
• Roll out L&D intervention and training programs
• Deploy PMS process effectively, timely and complete goal setting, effective feedback, and appraisals
• Put in place engagement and communication program
• Oversee effective on boarding of new employees and provide them with a rich employee experience
• Comply with company systems (SAP) fully and timely and controls
• Ensure complete, accurate and up to date information in SAP
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with external stakeholders and leverage them for the legitimate interests of the company

People related role

• Define the rules & regulation for the conduct of the employee
• Partners with the business to identify critical roles and build an external talent pipeline.
• Help employees in management of change.
• To update & track various actionable points coming out from Communication Meets, Employee Engagement Survey findings and other Employee Feedback Sessions
• Clarification on various issues raised by employees from time to time on benefits etc.
• Facilitate initiatives for training need identification and building requisite skills & competencies through systematic training & skill-upgradation initiatives for the team
• Develop performance metrics, monitor performance against those metrics and implement process improvement initiatives
• Recognize & reward excellent performers & affirm key contributions of employees toward the achievement of goals & objectives of the team
• Drives cultural agenda by tailoring global/ regional/ country enablers to region specific cultural elements.

Functional Competencies

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to build trustful relationship
• Strong influencing, conflict resolution, consulting, and coaching skills
• Business acumen: Broad and deep understanding of the business
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and change with ease

Skills and Capabilities:

• Recruitment & Selection
• Performance Management
• Talent Management
• People Development
• Employee Engagement
• HR (SAP/others)
• HR Analytics

Education & Experience

Education Qualification: Master's degree in business administration (Specialization-HR)

Work Experience: 10 -15 years of experience in human resources function

Contact details

Senior Manager HR- Preeti Sanghi

Apply no later than

30th November, 2022

Knowledge grows through differences
Yara is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. To deliver on this, Yara has firmly anchored Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) in our business strategy and has more than 400 employees worldwide involved in D&I ambassadors networks.