Manager - C&B

Role & responsibilities:

• Devise, manage and implement market led compensation & benefits strategies for Linde India.
• Assess the effectiveness and competitiveness of the Lindes compensation and benefit plans, including continuous market analysis and review of employee opinions through surveys and exit feedback so as to help design appropriate recruitment and retention initiatives.
• Management of Payroll, Retirals and related employee payout eg. Salary, allowances, incentives, rewards, PF, Gratuity etc.
• Responsible for salary reviews to ensure relevant market benchmarking, directives of Regional office and HR council and consistency of application.
• Introduce need based policies; review existing policies on a periodic basis and implement changes; participate in Internal & External benefits surveys.
• Work with Departments for matters with regards to job analysis and job evaluation.
• Participates in compensation surveys with Mercer etc., helps establish salary ranges, and prepares policies and procedures to ensure competitive employee compensation.
• Improve communication of policies and benefits through Benefits campaigns; Policy clarification sessions for the HR and Resourcing team; Timely response to queries on policies and benefits.
• Keep abreast of external environment for emerging trends, regulatory changes, taxation rules, best practices and advises the management as appropriate.
• Review, analyse and benchmarking on Policies and Benefits, in consultation with Management team, relating to Service Conditions, Compensation, Incentive policies,
• Manage and maintain HRIS (SAP & other systems) and provide MIS support on manpower planning, budgeting, etc. periodically and/or need basis.
• Manage HR Systems and provide HR Analytics support Provide HR Support to the business unit

Key interfaces:

• External Contacts: Market Survey agencies, Compensation & Benefits consultants, senior HR counterparts in the community to keep track of changes in the region and internationally, Payroll vendor, Income tax specialists etc.
• Internal Contacts: Heads of Departments, members of HR team in India & RSE HR, Global IA team etc. Functional Heads, Senior level managers in other functions.

Required critical behaviors:

• Visible Leadership (Commitment to Linde)- Visibly supports and executes decisions once they are made.(30%)
• Results Delivery (Strategy execution)- Develops and executes action plans to achieve own and teams goals based on accurate data. (20%)
• Change Leadership (Executing Change)- Plans and implements change initiatives with clearly defined milestones and timelines. (10%)
• Decision making and execution (Decision execution)- Communicates and implements decisions within agreed timescale(10%)
• Influencing (Problem solving)- Understands problems from different points of view.(10%)
• Employee development and empowerment (Employee Development)-Coaches employees to build their skills and capabilities.(10%)
• Cross Cultural communication and collaboration (Cultural sensitivity)- Communicates openly and convincingly.(25%)

Required key skills (functional/technical):

• In depth knowledge of HR systems and processes. Exposure to SAP HR will be an added advantage.
• Good negotiating skills
• Able to gather and analyze facts and statistics
• Experience of managing a team of people
• Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables

Required qualifications/experience:

• At least 10 years of experience in HR with at least 3-4 years in C&B role.
• A Graduate in Commerce, Economics, Psychology or Business Management, preferably with an MBA or equivalent degree/ diploma.
• Advanced Proficiency in MS Excel, HRIS (preferably SAP) Experience in MNCs/ organizations in the manufacturing industry with exposure to global knowledge of compensation design/trends will be an advantage