Job Description Summary
LI-Hybrid

Location: Hyderabad, India

Relocation Support: This role is based in Hyderabad, India. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.

In this role, you will drive operational excellence in global rewards, managing complex processes, vendors, and systems while ensuring accuracy, structure, and timely delivery. You will act as a key connector across internal stakeholders and external partners, translating strategic objectives into clear guidelines and supporting their implementation. This is a highly autonomous role where your organization, attention to detail, and ability to multitask and communicate confidently will directly impact business outcomes.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate the global benchmarking survey cycle, including scope definition, stakeholder training, and vendor coordination
- Maintain and update benchmarking documentation (functional matching, governance, training materials) to ensure accuracy and relevance
- Develop training materials (videos, work instructions,



process guides) to enable consistent execution and stakeholder understanding
- Ensure data quality and completeness across benchmarking platforms in line with audit requirements
- Support deviation reviews by analyzing market data, business context, and labor trends to define competitive ranges
- Lead benchmarking-related projects, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of outcomes
- Drive continuous improvement by simplifying and automating processes, and building dashboards and analytics for data-driven decisions
- Support annual budgeting and salary increase processes, ensuring alignment with local market, legal, and stakeholder requirements

Essential Requirements
- 2 to 5 years of HR Experience (Preferably in Compensation & Advantages)
- Basic understanding of compensation elements in an organizational context
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex, matrixed, global environment.
- Strong

📌 Global benchmarking expert (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad