Weekday AI

Proactive software engineer recruitment via referrals

Head HR Consulting/ Advisory

Human Capital & Change ConsultingPosted on Nov 13

Full-timeMumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience in HR consulting, HR leadership, HR business partnering, or people advisory roles.
Strong exposure to HR generalist functions and HR business partner responsibilities.
Demonstrated experience across rewards and recognition, compensation and benefits, organisation design, culture and engagement diagnostics, HR audits, and compliance.
Understanding of consulting business models, service-line development, and commercial management.
An entrepreneurial mindset and ability to build and scale new business offerings.
Ability to structure ambiguous business challenges into clear, actionable solutions.
Experience managing external consultants, specialist partners, boutique consulting firms, or software-as-a-service platforms is highly preferred.
Strong stakeholder management, particularly with chief experience officers, chief human resources officers, and senior HR leadership.
Comfort working with outsourced delivery models, strategic partnerships, and technology platforms.
Strong documentation, presentation, communication, and negotiation skills.
Ability to independently manage multiple service lines while balancing client outcomes, delivery quality, and profitability.
Must-have skills include HR generalist knowledge, HR business partnering, HR advisory, HR consulting, stakeholder management, and HR strategy.
Good-to-have skills include consulting services design, performance management systems, organisation design, rewards and recognition, compensation and benefits, HR audits and compliance, culture and engagement diagnostics, partner and freelancer management, and commercial and profitability management.

Responsibilities

Own the design, launch, and growth of outsourced HR consulting and advisory services.
Develop and scale offerings across fractional chief human resources officer services; rewards and recognition; compensation and benefits and salary benchmarking; HR audits; organisation design and role structuring; culture mapping and measurement; HR compliance consulting; prevention of sexual harassment advisory; AI-based skill assessments; background verification; and relocation and global mobility coordination.
Convert partner-led services into standardised, repeatable, commercially viable consulting products and identify new portfolio opportunities based on client requirements and market needs.
Identify, evaluate, onboard, and manage external HR consultants, including senior HR leaders, compensation and benefits and rewards specialists, and compliance and labour-law advisors.
Build relationships with platform partners offering assessments, background verification, employee surveys, and relocation services.
Define scopes of work, commercial terms, service-level agreements, and revenue-sharing models; monitor partner performance and maintain delivery quality within an asset-light operating structure.
Serve as the primary consulting point of contact for key clients on people strategy, HR transformation, and organisational effectiveness.
Work with recruitment and Learning and Development teams to identify cross-selling and business expansion opportunities, and develop bundled services combining recruitment with assessments, onboarding, and prevention of sexual harassment advisory.
Support leadership with client pitches, proposal development, solution design, and large-account acquisition; translate complex client challenges into practical, customised HR consulting solutions.
Own pricing strategies, rate cards, revenue models, and gross margins across consulting service lines.
Monitor revenue by service category, direct delivery costs, consultant fees, and platform expenses; establish and track unit economics toward sustainable profitability.
Drive pre-sales activities, develop retainer-based client engagements, improve margins, optimise delivery costs, and increase revenue from existing accounts.
Develop consulting playbooks, delivery frameworks, standard operating procedures, templates, and performance dashboards.
Establish delivery standards and quality-control mechanisms; ensure confidentiality, regulatory compliance, and data integrity throughout client engagements.
Create scalable processes for consistent service delivery across multiple consulting verticals.
Identify consulting capabilities and service lines that can be developed in-house; support recruitment, onboarding, and mentoring of internal consulting professionals as the business scales.
Build internal expertise and contribute to establishing a consulting-led organisational culture.

Desired Qualifications

Experience managing external consultants, specialist partners, boutique consulting firms, or software-as-a-service platforms.

Head - HR Consulting/ Advisory

Weekday AI · Mumbai, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-13

Workplace: on_site

Department: Weekday's Client via platform

Description

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 8+ years
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
JobType: full-time

We are seeking an entrepreneurial and experienced Head – HR Consulting & Advisory to establish, lead, and scale the organisation’s HR advisory and consulting business. The role will focus on expanding the firm’s offerings beyond recruitment and positioning it as a comprehensive HR consulting partner for clients.

The individual will operate as the Profit Centre Head for consulting services, taking ownership of service-line development, partner and freelancer management, client solutioning, commercial performance, and delivery quality. The role will involve building an asset-light consulting model by collaborating with external HR experts, specialist consultants, boutique firms, and technology platforms while ensuring sustainable profitability.

The ideal candidate will bring strong experience across HR generalist functions, HR business partnering, rewards and recognition, organisation design, culture, employee engagement, HR audits, and compliance advisory.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

1. Consulting Services Development and Business Scaling

Own the design, launch, and growth of outsourced HR consulting and advisory services.
Develop and scale offerings across:
Fractional CHRO services
Rewards and Recognition
Compensation and Benefits (C&B) and Salary Benchmarking
HR Audits
Organisation Design and Role Structuring
Culture Mapping and Measurement
HR Compliance Consulting
Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Advisory
AI-based Skill Assessments
Background Verification (BGV)
Relocation and Global Mobility Coordination
Convert partner-led services into standardised, repeatable, and commercially viable consulting products.
Identify new opportunities to expand the consulting portfolio based on client requirements and market needs.

2. Partner and Freelancer Management

Identify, evaluate, onboard, and manage external HR consultants, including senior HR leaders, C&B and rewards specialists, and compliance and labour-law advisors.
Build relationships with platform partners offering assessments, background verification, employee surveys, and relocation services.
Define scopes of work, commercial terms, service-level agreements (SLAs), and revenue-sharing models.
Monitor partner performance and ensure consistent delivery quality while maintaining an asset-light operating structure.

3. Client Consulting and Solutioning

Serve as the primary consulting point of contact for key clients on people strategy, HR transformation, and organisational effectiveness.
Work closely with recruitment and Learning & Development (L&D) teams to identify cross-selling and business expansion opportunities.
Develop bundled service offerings, such as recruitment combined with assessments, onboarding, and POSH advisory.
Support leadership in client pitches, proposal development, solution design, and large-account acquisition.
Translate complex client challenges into practical, customised HR consulting solutions.

4. Commercial Ownership and Profitability

Own pricing strategies, rate cards, revenue models, and gross margins across consulting service lines.
Monitor revenue by service category, direct delivery costs, consultant fees, and platform expenses.
Establish and track unit economics to ensure each consulting vertical progresses towards sustainable profitability.
Drive pre-sales activities and develop retainer-based client engagements.
Identify opportunities to improve margins, optimise delivery costs, and increase revenue from existing accounts.

5. Process Standardisation and Governance

Develop consulting playbooks, delivery frameworks, standard operating procedures, templates, and performance dashboards.
Establish consistent delivery standards and quality-control mechanisms across consulting engagements.
Ensure confidentiality, regulatory compliance, and data integrity throughout client engagements.
Create scalable processes that support consistent service delivery across multiple consulting verticals.

6. Internal Capability Building

Identify consulting capabilities and service lines that can gradually be developed in-house.
Support the recruitment, onboarding, and mentoring of internal consulting professionals as the business scales.
Build internal expertise and contribute to establishing a consulting-led organisational culture.

Required Skills and Qualifications

10+ years of experience in HR consulting, HR leadership, HR business partnering, or people advisory roles.
Strong exposure to HR generalist functions and HR Business Partner (HRBP) responsibilities.
Demonstrated experience across rewards and recognition, compensation and benefits, organisation design, culture and engagement diagnostics, HR audits, and compliance.
Understanding of consulting business models, service-line development, and commercial management.
Experience managing external consultants, specialist partners, boutique consulting firms, or SaaS platforms is highly preferred.
Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to build and scale new business offerings.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to structure ambiguous business challenges into clear, actionable solutions.
Excellent stakeholder management skills, particularly with CXOs, CHROs, and senior HR leadership.
High comfort working with outsourced delivery models, strategic partnerships, and technology platforms.
Strong documentation, presentation, communication, and negotiation skills.
Ability to independently manage multiple service lines while balancing client outcomes, delivery quality, and profitability.

Must-Have Skills

HR Generalist
HR Business Partner (HRBP)
HR Advisory
HR Consulting
Stakeholder Management
HR Strategy

Good-to-Have Skills

Consulting Services Design
Performance Management Systems
Organisation Design
Rewards and Recognition
Compensation and Benefits
HR Audits and Compliance
Culture and Engagement Diagnostics
Partner and Freelancer Management
Commercial and Profitability Management

Apply

Apply at Weekday AI

About the Company

Weekday AI

Proactive software engineer recruitment via referrals

Weekday.works helps companies hire software engineers through proactive outreach and peer-recommended candidates. Its platform automates tracking, pipeline management, and provides weekly updates, while it actively identifies engineers via peer networks, reaches out, shortlists, checks references, and schedules interviews. Differentiators include peer-backed vetting instead of traditional job boards, proactive outreach, and a passive-income reference feature that monetizes referrals. The goal is to reduce the time and effort of hiring by connecting companies with pre-vetted engineers who are open to new opportunities through a network-driven approach.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Seed
Total funding: $2.3M
Headquarters: Bengaluru, India
Founded: 2021

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at Weekday AI

See more jobs