Succession Planning Expert
Bangalore, India / Delhi, India / Pune, India / Chennai, India / Mumbai, India / Hyderabad, India
BSO: People Operations – India /
Experienced Professional /
Remote
With 55 years of excellence, 30 years as an SAP Gold Partner, and a global footprint in 26+ countries, we are bringing our world-class SAP expertise to the region.
If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to work with a team of talented colleagues who enjoy both work and life, Westernacher is the perfect place. We are looking for an experienced Talent Development/Succession Planning Expert to oversee all offshore resources assigned across multiple projects.
Your Responsibilities:
The role focuses on partnering with business leaders to drive people development, talent management, learning initiatives, and organizational effectiveness. The HRBP acts as a strategic advisor, aligning people strategies with business goals while strengthening capability, performance, and culture.
Lead our regional people-development agenda end-to-end—designing structured learning journeys from early career to leadership readiness, and closing critical technical/behavioral skill gaps across India, SEA, and MEA in tight partnership with People Leads and CC Leads.
Key Focus Areas:
- Talent development & capability building
- Learning & development strategy
- Performance management & career frameworks
- Leadership development & succession planning
- Employee engagement & culture initiatives
- Stakeholder management with business leaders
- Data-driven people insights and workforce planning
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design the “Full VP” of Learning
- Bridge the skills gap
- Operationalize capability building
- Performance & progression enablement
- Partner widely, deliver simply
- Measurement & reporting
- Change & communication
Your Experience and Skills:
- 7+ years of real HRBP depth applied to people development, succession planning
- Hands-on builder
- Competency/skills frameworks experience
- Succession & progression enablement
- Data-driven
- Cross-cultural collaboration
- Willingness to work across HR verticals
- Nice-to-have - Experience integrating capability data with staffing or BI, - Exposure to consulting environments.
Why Westernacher?
- Inspiring and exciting innovative working environment.
- Competitive remuneration package (salary, bonus, benefits).
- International company culture and minimal hierarchical structure.
- Chance to work on complex projects from different industries and add to your business process know-how.
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working model.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
