Role: BCOE – Talent Development, Learning and OE – Novel Jewels
The role is based at Mumbai and reporting to the Head HR, Novel Jewels.
Business Context and Opportunities
A global conglomerate, the Aditya Birla Group is in the League of Fortune 500. Anchored by an extraordinary force of over 140,000 employees belonging to 100 nationalities, the Group is built on a strong foundation of stakeholder value creation. With over seven decades of responsible business practices, our businesses have grown into global powerhouses in a wide range of sectors – metals, pulp and fibre, chemicals, textiles, carbon black, telecom, cement, financial services, fashion retail and renewable energy. Today, over 50% of Group revenues flow from overseas operations that span 36 countries in North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
The Group would like to expand its Retail Footprint and leverage the trust and synergy built over the years in luxury retail by launching a Jewellery Business in India. India's gems and jewellery market contributed around 7% to GDP and 14% to India’s total merchandize export in February’21 with a market size was at US$ 78.50 billion in FY21. The jewellery industry in India is largely driven by individual family owned small to medium size businesses. Thus, the Group anticipates that there is scope of development of large retailers / brand in jewellery industry in near future. The venture will benefit from the retail experience, knowhow and trust build over the years with various ABG Luxury Retail Brands. It will also be able to harness the people, technical and operational capabilities from Group’s retail arms. The range will be developed as a proof of concept for an integrated offering and may be diversified with multiple brands post establishment of a commercially viable business model.
The Group launched its Jewellery brand Indriya housed in the company Novel Jewels, in June 2024. Indriya had a very good start and all the 10 stores launched by November have been doing exceedingly well in terms of customer response and sales.
Indriya is stated to grow exponentially in the next 12-18 month with close to 100 new stores being planned.
Organization Structure
Relationships
· Internal:
The key internal stakeholders of this role will be
o Function Heads - NJ
o GCOE – Talent
o GCOE – Learning
o GCOE - OE
· External:
The key external stakeholders of this role will be
o External Coaches, Facilitators and trainers
o R&R partner
Position Purpose and Summary
This role is responsible for partnering with Function Heads for their Talent Development, Learning and OE needs. The role holder be responsible to support all non store employees on the above mentioned areas. Further the role holder will also be responsible for HR business Partnering 3 Functions.
