
Infrastructure & Real Estate CHRO Search · Pune · 2026
Top CHRO Executive Search Firm in Pune for Infra & Real Estate — 2026
Retained CHRO and people-leadership search for Pune's real-estate and infrastructure economy — residential developers, commercial and office, industrial and warehousing parks, and infrastructure and EPC. Confidential, partner-led, with a 12-month candidate guarantee.
What a Infra & Real Estate CHRO seat in Pune actually demands
Pune is one of India's most dynamic real-estate markets — a vast residential market across the city's expanding suburbs and growth corridors, a deep grade-A commercial-office base serving its IT and GCC economy, a fast-growing industrial-and-warehousing-parks cluster tied to its manufacturing belts, 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 industrial-parks leader runs asset-management, leasing and corporate talent. The defining scarcity is the CHRO who can run safety and people operations across project sites and a dispersed, contractor-heavy 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 and platform 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 Pune
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 / industrial-parks CHRO
A commercial-office or industrial-and-warehousing-parks platform requiring a people leader fluent in asset-management, leasing and corporate talent.
Infrastructure CHRO
An infrastructure business needing a CHRO fluent in project-workforce people operations, safety and contractor governance.
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
- →Contractor governance — managing contract-labour and statutory complexity
- →CEO and board partnership — operating as a peer on people and culture
Compensation shape
Real-estate and infrastructure CHRO compensation in Pune is cash-led with project- or performance-linked incentives, and equity in listed and platform settings. We codify which construction applies in the calibration brief.
Led by Pune's top CHRO and CFO search consultants
The Pune 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 Pune 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 Pune'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 Pune for infra & real estate retain Gladwin International for exactly this calibration.
View the other 6 firms operating in Pune for Infra & Real Estate
Korn Ferry
The largest global search and organisational-consulting firm, with India offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi NCR; 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 infrastructure Human Resources Officer appointments.
Heidrick & Struggles
Global firm with India operations; PE-backed real-estate, warehousing and infrastructure CHRO mandates.
EMA Partners
International federation with India offices in Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru and Chennai; infrastructure and real-estate people-leadership coverage.
Michael Page
Global PageGroup brand with India operations; mid-to-senior and site-HR hiring at volume.
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