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HR Business Partner

Job ID 10114292 Location Mumbai, India Business Industrial Light & Magic Date posted Mar. 11, 2025
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Job Summary:

Are you someone who likes … shaping the employee experience, helping business leaders reach their goals, and providing support that allows talent to grow in their careers? The HR Business Partner is the initial point of contact for the incredible professionals at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), and will be the conduit between Human Resources and Business Leaders.  This position partners with and reports to the Head HR and will assist with various client groups within ILM.  You have proven experience as an HR business partner who thrives in a fast-paced, creative, and dynamic environment while helping deliver HR programs and solutions that support short-term and long-term business goals. In that case, you’ve arrived at the right place.

On any given day, you might:

  • Partner with the HRBP community and leadership to drive strategic initiatives of the assigned client group at ILM; help project manage and execute HR programming

  • Develop, maintain, and demonstrate a working business knowledge and take a consultative approach with clients, anticipating, assessing, and providing creative HR solutions to business priorities.

  • Consult with clients by partnering on moderately complex HR processes, procedures, precedents, and initiatives engaging appropriate centers of excellence (COE) partners as required.

  • Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to management (coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions).

  • Advise on effective headcount/resource management and engaging recruitment to ensure talent acquisition is effectively managed.

  • Influence clients to take a near and long-term view on engaging in key talent processes, including talent review, succession planning, leadership development, and talent assessment.

  • Work closely with the Director, Managers, and Employees to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention.

  • Encourage the integrated salary planning process by effectively working with management and Compensation to ensure timely and accurate planning and execution.

  • Partner with the Learning Development team to co-facilitate key employee learning opportunities.

  • Participate as an active member of the HR community, building relationships across the HR team and assisting other HR initiatives and projects as required.

  • Assists with employee communications (both through design and providing input), as required.

  • Participate in special projects at both the HRBP team and client level.

Here are the skills and experience you need to be successful in this role:

  • Minimum of 3+ years of human resources generalist experience in progressively responsible roles assisting various functional groups, including executive-level employees.

  • Strong business acumen with a keen aptitude to quickly assimilate new information.

  • Proven ability to effectively interact with all organizational levels in a multicultural environment and build strong, trusted relationships.

  • Excellent consulting and conflict management skills.

  • Experience working with senior executives in an “influence-without-authority” role.

  • Experience, exposure, and comfort with various HR facets, including organization development, employee relations, talent acquisition, learning & development, and compensation.

  • Ability to function independently, with minimal supervision, and thrive within a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.

  • Demonstrated experience working as a trusted advisor.

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.

  • The ability to identify and anticipate client needs and make recommendations for implementation.

  • Advanced level skills using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint—experience with Google products (Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Forms) is needed.

  • Excellent analytical skills and the ability to quickly interpret data, identify trends, and recommend multiple solutions.

  • Strong organizational, motivational, and problem-solving skills.

  • Ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities with grace and efficiency.

  • Strong team player and ability to function in a matrixed co-leadership environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience directly assisting clients in an HRBP capacity.

  • Project management experience.

  • Experience working in a large, corporate, matrixed environment.

Required Education :

Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field or combination of equivalent work experience.

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About Industrial Light & Magic:

Founded in 1975 by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, serving the motion picture, commercial production, and attraction industries. ILM has created visual effects for over 325 feature films and has played a key role in seven of the top 10 worldwide box-office hits of all time and has contributed to 25 of the top 50. ILM has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film. At the forefront of the digital revolution, the company continues to break new ground in visual effects, VR, AR, and Immersive Cinema.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Lucasfilm Visual Effects (India) Private Limited, which is part of a business we call Industrial Light & Magic.

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