Talent Management Specialist
Function: Human Resources
Reports To: Head – HR CoE
Location: Gurugram, India
Experience: 7–10 years
Role Purpose
Drive NIIT’s Talent Management agenda as part of Building NIIT 2.0, with focus on Performance Management, Talent Reviews, Succession Planning, Leadership Development, Internal Mobility and Talent Analytics.
This is a CoE role responsible for designing frameworks, driving enterprise execution, strengthening governance and enabling data-led talent decisions across businesses.
Key Responsibilities
1. Performance Management
• Drive end-to-end execution of the annual performance cycle including goal setting, mid-year reviews, year-end assessments, calibration and moderation.
• Strengthen quality of goals, performance differentiation and manager accountability.
• Own PMS governance, timelines, dashboards and compliance.
• Use performance data to identify trends, gaps and required actions.
2. Talent Reviews
• Design and drive enterprise talent review processes.
• Assess talent across performance, potential, criticality and readiness.
• Facilitate structured talent discussions with HRBPs and business leaders.
• Track agreed development, movement, retention and succession actions.
3. Succession Planning
• Identify critical roles and build succession coverage.
• Maintain successor readiness across Ready Now / Ready Soon / Longer-Term categories.
• Track succession gaps and leadership pipeline strength.
• Support development and movement of identified successor talent.
4. Leadership & Manager Capability
• Identify priority leadership and manager capability gaps.
• Design interventions around accountability, feedback, decision-making, talent development and change leadership.
• Link leadership development to talent and succession outcomes.
• Track effectiveness and business application of interventions.
5. Internal Mobility
• Build frameworks to strengthen internal movement and career progression.
• Connect talent reviews, successi