Human Resources

Company Profile: candi is a dedicated rooftop solar company for businesses across Asia and Africa. We bring together international capital, through our Swiss-based platform, and local expertise in order to provide a unique offering to this unserved sector. In doing so, candi aims to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets. www.candi.solar

Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic Human Resources professional, who will functionally be known internally as People & Culture, who will help candi to lead the revolution of solar. Given that candi is taking solar into a new realm with a new set of tools, the role will require creativity, innovation and a new way of thinking.

Specifically, the job requires taking ownership and responsibility of the following for the Indian team:

• End to end recruitment
• Digital onboarding/offboarding
• Employee grievance handling
• Creating a healthy culture in the organisation.
• Performance Management (probation cycles, and annual performance reviews)
• Learning and development initiatives
• Measuring employee engagement
• Payroll Management & Compliance with labour law (e.g. Payroll Compliance ,Equal Opportunities Act, PoSH Law, Maternity Benefits Act, etc.)
• Administrative duties related to travel, office management, client gifts, employee medical insurance and insurance cards etc.
• Working on special global projects which involves coordination with candi People & Culture teams in Switzerland and South Africa

Location: Gurgaon (combined with working from home - hybrid working)

Hours: Full time (Very experienced candidates will be considered for a part-time position)

Job Requirements:

• MBA or PGDM  in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Administration, or similar.
• 7+ years of experience in human resources, change management, recruitment, or similar.
• A lateral thinker, able to juggle administrative tasks with People, Admin and HR compliance tasks simultaneously.
• It is critical that you are digitally savvy, and experienced with using a wide range of  Hybrid Working tools; preferably with experience of having implemented digital HRIS, Appraisal and/or Performance Management systems.
• You must display genuine emotional intelligence, with the ability to manage diverse teams from across a wide spectrum of society.
• It is critical that you are an independent self starter, able to implement and drive recruitment mandates, in order to juggle a large pipeline of candidates and recruiters simultaneously.
• Excellent written and spoken English & Hindi a must, preferably with one or more Indian languages (e.g. Punjabi, Marathi).
• Experience of having worked or studied abroad, or having experience working for an international company in India, will be considered a plus.

Working Culture:

• You agree to live out the candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we work as one and follow the candi principle that less is more
• A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
• Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
• You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
• candi is an equal opportunities employer.

candi is unique because...

• We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean rooftop solar energy.
• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
• We are an international team where remote working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.