Lead Total Rewards Partner

Role Purpose

Act as the analytical engine and trusted deputy to the Regional Head of Total Rewards driving the design delivery and governance of competitive cost-effective and compliant Compensation & Benefits programmes across MESA. The role combines strong technical reward expertise with strong hands-on analytics and partnering with HR Finance Group Reward and business leaders as necessary.

Key Responsibilities Compensation

• Job Architecture: Maintain job families levelling and grade/title mapping; support job evaluation and consistent role governance across countries.
• Pay Bands & Structures: Build and refresh salary ranges (min/mid/max spreads midpoint progression); monitor compa-ratios and range penetration.
• Market Benchmarking: Manage salary survey participation (e.g. Mercer Aon Korn ferry) and job matching; deliver market positioning analysis by country sector and level.
• Harmonization: Lead pay and grade harmonization for M&A restructuring and legacy entities including gap analysis cost modelling and transition plans.
• Annual Salary Review & Incentives: Run ASR/merit cycles budget modelling and merit matrices; support STI/bonus design payouts.
• Pay Equity Offers & Allowances: Conduct internal equity reviews; advise on offers promotions and salary corrections; govern allowance and expat/mobility packages.

Key Responsibilities Benefits & Insurance

• Insurance Programmes: Manage group medical life and personal accident policies; lead annual renewals with brokers and insurers (RFPs negotiations plan design options).
• Claims & Cost Analytics: Analyse claims experience loss ratios and utilisation trends; project renewal costs and recommend cost-containment levers.
• Statutory & Retirement Benefits: Ensure compliance with country requirements (e.g. End-of-service benefits GOSI/pension schemes mandatory health cover etc).
• Benchmarking Wellbeing & Vendors: Benchmark benefits against market practice; support wellbeing and flexible benefits; manage broker/TPA SLAs employee communications.

Key Responsibilities Governance Analytics & Partnering

• Policy & Governance: Draft and maintain reward policies approval matrices and audit-ready documentation; ensure alignment with Regional & Group Reward frameworks.
• Reward Analytics: Build dashboards cost models and scenario analyses; ensure HCM/HRIS reward data accuracy and integrity.
• Operations & Shared Services Partnership: As policy owner partner with Operations and Shared Services teams who execute reward transactions; define clear process guidelines controls and checks to ensure accurate compliant and consistent delivery and data integrity.
• Partnering & Deputising: Prepare leadership-ready decks and approval notes; act as first point of contact for HRBPs and Finance and deputise for the Regional Head when required.

Qualifications :

Candidate Profile

• 12 years in Compensation & Benefits/Total Rewards ideally with multi-country exposure across India and the Middle East.
• Hands-on experience with job evaluation methodologies (e.g. Mercer IPE Korn Ferry Hay WTW GGS) and salary surveys.
• Advanced Excel and data modelling skills; working knowledge of Power BI and HCM systems (e.g. SuccessFactors Workday Oracle).
• Strong analytical rigour and discretion; confident communicator who turns data into executive-ready insights and thrives in a lean regional team.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time