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Build Your India Team
Your own team in India, without building an Indian company first.
A dedicated team, recruited for your business, working to your processes and standards — established and supported on the ground by VMG, with a clear pathway to your own Indian entity when the time is right.
The idea
A dedicated team — not a shared service.
The people in your India team are recruited for your business. They work on your processes, in your systems, to your standards, and they stay with your account. Over time the team operates as a closely aligned extension of your own organisation.
What makes this practical for an international business is that VMG coordinates everything that makes India work: recruitment, employment and payroll coordination, workspace, equipment, vendors, local administration and the day-to-day coordination of the operating environment.
You do not need an Indian entity, an India director, an office lease or a local HR function to begin. Those come later, if and when the size of the operation justifies them.
Clear division of responsibility
Who does what
The model works best when the division is clear, and it is worth stating plainly before anything is agreed.
You retain
Your business, your standards
- Your technical and business processes
- Technical training and subject-matter knowledge
- Work allocation and day-to-day priorities
- Professional standards and quality expectations
- Client relationships and commercial decisions
- Ownership of the outputs the team produces
VMG coordinates
Everything that makes India work
- Recruitment and team building
- Employee onboarding
- Employment and payroll coordination
- Workspace: remote, coworking or dedicated office
- Equipment, connectivity and infrastructure
- Local vendors and suppliers
- Employee and workplace coordination
- Local administration and operational reporting
VMG is your local India operations partner and single point of coordination. One relationship and one point of contact across the different relationships required to run an India operation — rather than a recruiter, an employment provider, a landlord, an IT supplier and several vendors, each in a time zone you are not in.
One India team. Many ways to build it.
Build where the talent is.
India's talent base extends well beyond any single city. VMG can help establish your team in Bangalore, Delhi NCR, another major Indian city, a Tier 2 location, remotely across India, or through a combination of physical and virtual teams.
Fully virtual across India
Professionals working remotely from wherever the right talent is located. VMG has operated distributed teams since 2005.
One dedicated office
A single physical location for the India team — Bangalore, Delhi NCR or another city, chosen around the roles you need.
Multiple Indian locations
Teams based in more than one city, where different functions draw on different talent markets.
Hybrid structures
Office-based employees for functions that benefit from proximity, combined with remote professionals elsewhere in India.
Bangalore is VMG's home base and one of India's leading talent centres, but it is one option among several. VMG has established and operated dedicated client offices elsewhere in India, including a specialist legal-support operation in Noida, near Delhi. See the case study.
Starting point
Start small. Build with confidence.
You do not need a 100-person operation to build capability in India. Most India operations begin as a small number of roles that need to be performed well.
Begin at a realistic scale
Two to five people is a normal first step. It is enough to establish whether the work transfers, whether the roles are right and whether the economics hold, without a large commitment.
Prove the model
Once the first team is producing reliable work, the question changes from whether India will work to which other functions could sit there. That is the point at which expansion makes sense.
Scale on evidence
Add roles and functions as the case for them becomes clear. The India team grows in the direction your business actually needs, rather than to a plan drawn up on day one.
- 2–5A realistic first step
- 10Once the model is working
- 25+Scale into a larger India operation
Illustrative of the scale VMG works at, not fixed packages.
The path
From your first employee to your own India operation.
Not every business travels the whole way, and there is no requirement to. Many find the model suits them at a modest scale and stay there.
Start
Begin with a small number of roles, without an Indian entity of your own.
Build
Recruit a dedicated team, selected for your business and trained on your processes.
Operate
Work virtually across India, from a dedicated office, or through a hybrid of both.
Scale
Add roles and functions as the model proves itself.
Establish
Grow into a larger India operation or Global Capability Centre.
Transition
A clear pathway to your own Indian entity and leadership when commercially appropriate.
Employment & payroll coordination
Where you do not yet have an Indian entity
VMG can help coordinate appropriate employment, payroll and statutory arrangements through established specialist partners.
This is a practical piece of the setup, and it is worth getting right. The specifics — arrangements, costs and structure — are set out during the proposal and implementation stage, once the roles are known. The substance of VMG's work is the operation around it: local operations, people, coordination, execution and management.
A clear pathway
Build with VMG. Transition when you're ready.
A successful India operation often leads to the client establishing its own Indian entity and India leadership. VMG treats that as the natural conclusion of the work.
VMG can act as your local India operations partner until your own entity and leadership structure are in place, and there is a clear pathway to transition the team to your own Indian entity when appropriate. Some clients make that move; others find the VMG model continues to suit them at scale. Both are reasonable outcomes.
Why businesses work with VMG →Not sure this is the right model?
You may simply want the work performed.
If you would prefer a fully managed service without taking on local operational responsibilities, VMG's managed outsourcing model may suit you better. You define what needs to be done; VMG provides and manages the team under an agreed hourly or monthly rate. Some clients combine the two, using dedicated India teams for core capabilities while VMG continues to manage selected outsourced functions.
Managed Outsourcing →Talk to VMG
Tell us what you are considering building in India.
A short conversation is usually enough to establish whether an India team suits your requirement, what it would realistically involve and how quickly you could begin.