Head HR- Hiring for SSO Cancer Hospital

The Head of HR will lead the end-to-end Human Resource function for SSO Cancer Care Hospital, ensuring seamless operations across clinical, non-clinical, and support teams. This role demands a leader who has previously managed high-intensity, operations-driven environments such as plants or factory units, where workforce planning, compliance, IR, and large contractual workforces are central. They will act as a strategic partner to Hospital Leadership, enabling a high-performance culture, operational excellence, and people-first patient-centric practices.

• Lead manpower planning across medical, paramedical, administrative, and facility teams.
• Drive hiring, onboarding, credentialing, and capability-building.
• Enable career pathways and succession planning for high-performing teams.

• Partner with leadership team & unit heads to align HR strategies with patient-care outcomes, operational targets, and hospital KPIs.
• Drive workforce productivity, manpower optimization, and staffing models inspired by plant-level efficiency frameworks.

• Implement competency-based performance frameworks.
• Establish structured training for clinical, technical, and support teams.
• Build a learning culture similar to high-discipline plant setups.

• Ensure 100% compliance with labor laws, hospital HR audits, and medical establishment norms.
• Partner with Quality & Safety teams to reinforce a zero-incident, safe-workplace environment.

• Drive values-based culture aligned with empathy, patient-centricity, and operational discipline.
• Strengthen employee engagement programs across hospital units.
• Champion diversity, inclusion, and well-being.

• 3–6 years of strong HR experience from a Tier-1 institution (IIM, XLRI, TISS, MDI, etc.)
• Exposure to HR operations in plants/factories/large operational units, ideally in 24x7 environments.
• Demonstrated team handling experience with the ability to lead and influence on-ground HR teams.
• Strong grounding in employee relations and the ability to manage ground-level workforce dynamics effectively.
• Experience in hospitals/healthcare is a plus, not mandatory.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, service-driven environment with a significant contractual workforce.