Olam Agri is a market-leading, differentiated food, feed, and fiber agri-business with a global origination footprint, processing capabilities, and deep understanding of market needs built over 33 years. With a strong presence in high-growth emerging markets and products across grains & oilseeds, animal feed & protein, rice, edible oils, specialty grains & seeds, cotton, wood products, rubber and commodity financial services.
Olam Agri is at the heart of global food and agri-trade flows with more than 40 million MT in volume traded annually. Focused on transforming food, feed and fiber for a more sustainable future, it aims at creating value for customers, enabling farming communities to prosper sustainably, and strive for a food-secure future.
Job Description
- The HR Business Partner (MATS) will serve as a strategic advisor to Manufacturing, Technical and Supply Chain leadership teams, driving HR initiatives that strengthen organizational capability, enhance talent quality, and support high‑performance culture across plant and field operations.
- The role ensures seamless execution of people processes, workforce planning, capability development, and HR compliance within the manufacturing ecosystem, by effectively partnering with the various COE’s.
Key Deliverables
Strategic HR Business Partnering:
- Act as a trusted advisor to MATS leadership, providing data-driven insights to influence people decisions and organizational effectiveness.
- Partner with business units to understand operational priorities and translate them into HR interventions that improve productivity and workforce engagement.
- Drive workforce planning, succession planning, and capability-building strategies aligned with business growth.
Talent Acquisition & Workforce Deployment:
- Partner with the TA team to attract, assess, and onboard high-quality technical, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain talent.
- Ensure staffing for plants, mills, factories, warehouses, and field operations is aligned with business timelines and manpower budgets.
- Support graduate trainee intake and deployment across technical and manufacturing functions.
Strategic Effectiveness
Performance & Capability Development:
- Drive the annual performance management cycle, ensuring fairness, quality of evaluations, and leadership accountability.
- Identify skill gaps and coordinate functional capability development programs for plant managers, shift supervisors, engineers, quality teams, and supply chain staff.
- Support leadership development pipelines for critical MATS roles.
HR Operations & Process Excellence:
- Partner with Plant HR/IR Managers to deliver end‑to‑end people processes including onboarding, confirmations, transfers, exits, HR documentation, and payroll inputs.
- Partner with C&B team to ensure data accuracy and timely updates on HR systems (e.g., SuccessFactors, HRIS).
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to simplify HR processes across manufacturing locations.
Culture, Engagement & Change Management:
- Partner with L&D to champion company values and drive culture-building initiatives across plants, warehouses, and field operations.
- Lead engagement activities, pulse surveys, and action planning to improve employee morale and retention.
- Support change management for organizational transformation, restructuring, or process redesign initiatives.
Organizational Effectiveness:
- Define and Implement world-class primary human resources processes working with the team of HR representatives (e.g. annual and mid-year promotions, yearly performance management, compensation and salary administration) according to geographic/entity guidelines.
- Partner with the L&D team to assess skill gaps with leadership. Execute plans for skill development across the entire spectrum of the organization
- Support HR representative generalists to identify people who need training
- Oversee customer community meetings/activities.
- Evaluate, identify and partner with best in class training pr.oviders/vendors to implement training & OD programs and services
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree from reputed university/ specialization in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Business Administration or related field is an advantage, through not mandatory.
- Certification from institutes such as CIPM, SHRM, HRCI is an advantage
- 10 - 12 years progressive HR experience, with at least 6 years partnering with manufacturing/technical/supply chain operations.
- Proven experience in talent planning, capability development, and improving employee experience in a high‑performance, fast-paced environment.