Role Purpose
This role has an accountability for the design, governance, and continuous evolution of NIIT’s total rewards framework - encompassing compensation architecture, perks strategy and administration, insurance governance, ESOP Management, and facilitate Board-level presentations. Operating within a listed enterprise across multiple geographies and talent segments, the role requires the strategic depth to build frameworks that position NIIT competitively in the external market, the analytical rigour to ensure internal equity and commercial defensibility, and the executive presence to represent reward proposals to management.
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 philo
📌 Manager Total Rewards (Gurugram)
🏢 NIIT
📍 Gurugram