GCC HR Launch Advisory

The people foundation for new India capability centers. Entity, tax and real-estate advisors hand over the keys and leave. What’s left unowned is the layer launches actually stall on: compensation, leadership, policies, compliance. That layer is the only thing this practice does.

The Readiness Assessment — fixed price, two weeks, complete clarity

• A 60–80 point scored diagnostic across the four dimensions that decide a launch: compensation architecture, statutory compliance, leadership, and operating model.
• Structured document review and stakeholder interviews in week one; scoring, analysis and benchmark pulls in week two.
• You receive every checkpoint rated, the top risks quantified in cost-and-delay terms, and a sequenced remediation plan your own team can execute — the assessment diagnoses honestly; it is not a disguised sales pitch.
• Fixed fee, fixed timeline, 50% on signature — you know the cost and the deliverable before you commit anything.

The Launch Build-Out — the foundation, built

• Compensation benchmarked against the GCC market (not IT-services rates — the single most expensive benchmarking mistake in launch budgets), with bands and offer structures that survive their first hundred negotiations.
• Policies localized to Indian state law and the Indian talent market — leave, notice, POSH, working hours — importing your global code of conduct and infosec standards, never photocopying the parent handbook.
• Statutory activation sequenced: registrations, the compliance calendar, and post-Labour-Codes requirements built in from day one.
• The first-50 hiring engine: wave-sequenced hiring plans, interview kits, vendor ecosystem, and offer-to-join management sized for India’s multi-offer market.
• Foundation credential: this practice productizes the experience of building five greenfield HR functions at Nestlé India — each operational on day one — and the HR framework behind Nestlé’s own GCC setup (40+ transitioned roles).

Leadership Search for the site-head seat

• The one hire that decides whether the other forty-nine work — retained search scored for build experience, offered only inside active launch engagements, delivered personally.

How we engage

Most clients start with the Readiness Assessment. Roughly half proceed to a build-out; the rest execute the remediation plan themselves — both are good outcomes, and that honesty is deliberate.

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