Tabrez Ahmed

Company Overview: Bira91 is a leading Indian craft beer brand known for its flavorful, contemporary Beers, within ten years it has gained significant market share a considered to be among top national Beer Brands.

• Lead HR Partnering for Corporate, Manufacturing & Pubs-Restaurants Vertical (The Beer Café & Bira Taproom Chain), driving strategic HR initiatives across multiple sites.
• Leading HR for 6 manufacturing units, 350 Corporate employees and 800 employees across 80 Restaurant & Pub outlets, ensuring alignment with business goals and workforce productivity.
• Partner with senior leadership to design and implement HR strategies that enhance workforce planning, talent management, and productivity.
• Oversee compliance, industrial relations, and labor laws across verticals & geographies, maintaining harmonious relations with stakeholders.
• Spearhead HR transformation projects, including HR process automation, policy revisions, digitalization, and employee experience enhancements.
• Serve as a key advisor to business leaders on workforce strategy, employee relations, and change management.
• Bira91 is a leading Indian craft beer brand known for its flavorful, contemporary Beers, within ten years it has gained significant market share a considered to be among top national Beer Brands.
• Expanded Total Rewards strategy, created EVP, Supervised talent development, and overall employee experience.
• Led restructuring by integrating Procurement, Planning, and Manufacturing into one Supply Chain function.
• Strengthened industrial relations by managing Union negotiations with zero plant disruptions.
• Drove HR digitization by implementing automation tools for seamless service delivery and better employee experience.

• Company Overview: Antara Senior Care is a platform with a host of lifecare, lifestyle and hospitality offerings, tailored to improve and enrich the quality of life for seniors. It includes premium residential communities for seniors, Carehomes and care-at-home services and a D2C offering of health and wellness products for seniors by the brand name AGEasy.
• Led restructuring across Antara entities, streamlining processes and unifying HR policies.
• Drove compensation benchmarking to ensure competitive pay and talent retention.
• Enabled Antara Group’s recognition as India’s Great Place to Work through strong engagement initiatives.
• Introduced 40+ HR best practices, boosting efficiency and continuous improvement.
• Managed team building and HR deployment in new cities, ensuring smooth business expansion.
• Antara Senior Care is a platform with a host of lifecare, lifestyle and hospitality offerings, tailored to improve and enrich the quality of life for seniors. It includes premium residential communities for seniors, Carehomes and care-at-home services and a D2C offering of health and wellness products for seniors by the brand name AGEasy.

• Worked independently for 9 months providing HR consulting with a strong focus on end-to-end recruitment, leadership hiring, and closing niche positions across functions while supporting clients with tailored talent solutions.

• As the very first member of the HR team during foundation of Bira 91’s & later during hyper-growth phase, I led enterprise-wide HR initiatives that supported business scale-up across multiple geographies.
• HR Planning & Budgeting: Workforce planning aligned with business expansion strategies; drove monthly HR budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization initiatives.
• HR Operations & Compliance: Built scalable HR operations, including end-to-end payroll, statutory compliance, and internal policy governance, ensuring operational excellence and audit readiness.
• Talent Acquisition & Cost Control: Led high-volume and leadership hiring with a strong focus on business fit and cost efficiency; managed vendor partnerships and hiring targets across functions.
• Performance & Rewards Management: Led annual performance cycles, salary reviews, and increment processes; acted as the HR point for audit and investor diligence.
• HR Technology Enablement: Introduced implementation of HRIS, digital performance management tools, and e-learning platforms to modernize and streamline people processes.
• Benefits & Employee Well-being: Designed and managed pan-India benefits programs including insurance, wellness, and rewards benchmarking; led open enrollment and orientation efforts.

• Independently responsible for managing the entire HR life cycle for 500 Sales & Sales Support, Supply Chain, and Store level Employees of North India, Sri Lanka & Nepal.
• Driving HR initiatives in the region like L&D, Reward, Performance Management etc.