Hiring for Client which is a leading name in Education Industry.

Opening: Manager- Total Rewards

Location: Gurgaon

Experience: 8–12 years, including 5+ years in dedicated Compensation & Advantages / Total Rewards roles.

Key Responsibilities:

- Conduct the compensation benchmarking exercise using structured external survey data (Aon, Mercer, or equivalent); translate outputs into a comprehensive compensation grid covering mass roles, campus hires, niche positions, and senior leadership.
- Design and maintain a structured job architecture - job families, bands, and pay ranges - inclusive of rubber-banding rules, promotion eligibility thresholds, and freeze parameters, ensuring the framework supports both internal equity and business agility.
- Manage the end-to-end ESOP lifecycle — grants, vesting, exercises, and lapses — in coordination with Legal, Finance, and the Company Secretary, ensuring full compliance
- Manage the annual merit and variable pay cycle - data governance, calibration support, HRIS interface, and payroll handoff - with full audit-readiness at each stage.
- Partner with stakeholders on compensation budgeting, cost modelling, and affordability analysis, ensuring all reward recommendations are commercially grounded prior to leadership approval.
- Prepare, structure, and present the annual compensation proposal to the Management - covering senior leadership remuneration, variable pay outcomes, proposed adjustments,



and benchmarking substantiation.
- Serve as the subject matter expert for the organization pertaining to compensation, remuneration philosophy, and market positioning.
- Lead the end-to-end benefits revamp - benchmarking the current portfolio against market norms, identifying gaps, designing a competitive and cost-efficient benefits package, and executing implementation.
- Govern all group benefit schemes - mediclaim, term life, personal accident, and supplementary covers - across the full lifecycle: enrolment, renewals, endorsements, claims oversight, and utilisation analysis.
- Own policy design, periodic review, and governance as a component of the broader perquisites framework.
- Design the R&R; framework. Establish R&R; governance standards - equity of access, linkage to performance outcomes, and periodic calibration of recognition quality and distribution.
- Partner with the PMS Lead on performance-to-reward linkage design, ensuring calibration outputs translate into differentiated and commercially defensible compensation decisions.
- Own, maintain, and periodically review the Incentive Policies, Promotion Policy, and R&R; Policy as components of the total rewards governance framework.
- Build and maintain compensation and benefits analytics infrastructure - dashboards, equity reports, and market positioning analyses - to support evidence-based reward decision-making.

📌 Manager Total Rewards (Gurugram)
🏢 UNISON INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING ( The Recruitment
📍 Gurugram