Lead - Compensation & Benefits - Media

- Be Responsible for building the strategy for compensation & benefits

- Overall planning of compensation - Budgeting or forecasting program manage compensation planning for Compensation in India and ensuring inputs to relevant finance teams to build rate cards

- Designs pieces of complex compensation programs resulting in significant and long term changes to the company's compensation offerings and policies ensuring optimal budget utilization.

- Planning the IT implementation of compesation & benefits, SAP alignment

- Oversees the implementation of specific components of complex and large scale compensation initiatives ensuring appropriate local implementation in the context of group guidelines.

- Designs and develops training education and communication materials for the implementation of compensation programs.

- Drives resolution of compensation issues and independently makes recommendation for optimal solution in situations where issue is complex.

- Drive refinement of the Market Intelligence processes and deliverables to ensure client expectations and deliverables are met on time and with quality

- Accountable for market data collection analysis and target development. Ensure market data analysis and recommendations are aligned with the compensation and benefits or pension strategy and direction

- Analyze performance metrics. Provide specialty reporting and data analysis as required. Identify trends potential areas of non-compliance with legal requirements and opportunities for performance improvements within the function

Education: MBA / PG in HR

Knowledge or Skills Requirements:

- Knowledge of compensation design and implementation .e.g. base pay variable pay benefits perquisites etc.

- Knowledge of country labor laws impacting rewards.

- High order of analytical ability and comfort with numbers

- Ability to effectively interface with multiple geographies and cultures

- Issue Resolution and Escalation

- Excellent MS Excel skills

- Tactical and strategic

- Responsible for ensuring compensation strategy is in line with the business needs and market realities

- Deal with expectations of critical business stakeholders i.e. with biz leads capability leads global recruiting third party vendors to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in HR support service delivery

Other considerations:

- Must be hard-core compensation & benefits person

- Must be currently in the similar role

- Only Mumbai/Navi Mumbai candidates are preferred

- Experience in media industry will be preferred