
Infrastructure & Real Estate CHRO Search · Gurgaon · 2026
Top CHRO Executive Search Firm in Gurgaon for Infra & Real Estate — 2026
Retained CHRO and people-leadership search for Gurgaon's real-estate and infrastructure economy — residential developers, commercial and office, REITs and proptech, and infrastructure and EPC. Confidential, partner-led, with a 12-month candidate guarantee.
What a Infra & Real Estate CHRO seat in Gurgaon actually demands
Gurgaon is one of India's most dynamic real-estate markets — major residential developers, one of the country's deepest grade-A commercial and REIT-bound office portfolios, a growing proptech scene, and infrastructure and EPC groups. The real-estate CHRO mandate spans a wide workforce spectrum: a developer or EPC people chief manages project-site and contractor labour, safety culture and dispersed people operations alongside the sales, design and engineering talent the business needs; a commercial or REIT leader runs a leaner corporate organisation with asset-management and leasing talent; a proptech leader blends technology hiring with hypergrowth org design. The defining scarcity is the CHRO who can run safety and people operations across project sites and a dispersed workforce while attracting the commercial, design and engineering talent a real-estate business depends on.
Compensation is cash-led with project- or performance-linked incentives, and equity in listed, REIT and proptech settings. The brief sets which applies. The stakeholder map runs from promoters, the CEO and board to project leadership and investors. References reach to CEOs, project leaders and board members, because the question that decides these mandates — can this leader run dispersed people operations and safety while building commercial talent — is answered by those who have watched the workforce perform under their hand.
Representative Infra & Real Estate CHRO mandates in Gurgaon
Category-level mandate patterns we are retained for. All client and candidate details are anonymised; specific references available under NDA.
Residential-developer / EPC CHRO
A developer or EPC business needing a CHRO who can run project-site and contractor people operations, safety culture, and sales, design and engineering talent.
Commercial / REIT CHRO
A commercial-office or REIT platform requiring a people leader fluent in asset-management and leasing talent and a leaner corporate organisation.
Proptech CHRO
A proptech business needing a CHRO who blends technology hiring with hypergrowth organisation design.
What we assess for this mandate
- →Project-site and dispersed people operations — running people ops across sites and contractor labour
- →Safety culture — embedding the safety culture construction and infrastructure require
- →Commercial, design and engineering talent — attracting the talent a real-estate business needs
- →Leverage-aware workforce planning — managing people cost through cyclical markets
- →CEO and board partnership — operating as a peer on people and culture
Compensation shape
Real-estate and infrastructure CHRO compensation in Gurgaon is cash-led with project- or performance-linked incentives, and equity in listed, REIT and proptech settings. We codify which construction applies in the calibration brief.
Led by Gurgaon's top CHRO and CFO search consultants
The Gurgaon infra & real estate CHRO and CFO practices are led personally — board chemistry, slate calibration and the close sit with a named, accountable consultant.

Anandh Shanmugaraj
Founder of Gladwin International and India's leading CHRO and leadership search consultant. He leads every Gurgaon infra & real estate CHRO and people-leadership mandate on a partner-led, founder-accountable basis.
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Manogna Soudhini Gonchikar
Director & Managing Partner of Gladwin International and head of its Global CFO Practice — India's leading CFO search consultant. She leads the finance-leadership mandates that pair with these CHRO appointments, from CFO to IPO-readiness finance chiefs.
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Firm-level listing. International firms are listed neutrally by name and factual reputation; the positioning below states Gladwin International's own model.
Gladwin International
India-rooted, research-driven retained CHRO search. Partner-led on every mandate, sector-calibrated to Gurgaon's infra & real estate economy, and confidential by default. 100+ CHRO and people-leadership placements across the Global CHRO Practice. Boards and CEOs looking for a specialist CHRO recruiting firm in Gurgaon for infra & real estate retain Gladwin International for exactly this calibration.
View the other 6 firms operating in Gurgaon for Infra & Real Estate
Korn Ferry
The largest global search and organisational-consulting firm, with India offices in Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Bengaluru; infrastructure and real-estate CHRO coverage with rewards advisory.
Egon Zehnder
Assessment-led global firm with India presence; real-estate and infrastructure CHRO succession and people-leadership evaluation.
Spencer Stuart
Tier-1 global board and succession specialist with strong India presence; real-estate and REIT Human Resources Officer appointments.
Heidrick & Struggles
Global firm with India operations; PE-backed real-estate, REIT and proptech CHRO mandates.
EMA Partners
International federation with India offices in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai; infrastructure and real-estate people-leadership coverage.
Michael Page
Global PageGroup brand with India operations; mid-to-senior and CHRO-level real-estate HR hiring at volume.
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