Company Overview

Our client is a multinational company with 13,000 employees across diverse business sectors, operating in over 30 countries worldwide. The business is performing strongly and continues to expand.

Candidates are expected to come from a consulting background with regional‑level experience and full professional proficiency in English (written & verbal).

This role requires total rewards experience. OD background is preferred but not mandatory.

Remote work is available for this position.

Position Purpose The Global Total Rewards Sr.

General

Manager, a strategic lead role, is responsible for supporting the implementation of Total Rewards and Organizational Design (OD) strategies by translating frameworks into consistent, compliant, and cost‑effective programs across entities. The role supports the Head of Total Rewards & OD in ensuring effective deployment of compensation, benefits, and reward policies, while enabling organization‑wide design structures, job architecture, and structural change analytics.

Working closely with HRBPs, HR CoE, Finance, and business leaders, the SGM oversees delivery of benchmarking, reward cycle operations, pay communication, and supports OD initiatives such as spans and layers reviews, grading, structural realignment and recommendations, and job analysis. The role is key to maintaining fairness, transparency, and competitiveness in both compensation and organizational design governance.

Responsibilities

- Lead and monitor Total Rewards & OD initiatives, track milestones and report progress to senior management. Translate strategic frameworks into operational plans and mobilize cross‑functional teams to deliver priorities, and contribute to formulating strategic frameworks.
- Design and periodically update Total Rewards and OD policies, toolkits and guidelines aligned with market trends and business evolution, and ensure full compliance. Develop governance frameworks for rewards programs, grading systems and job‑design principles.
- Identify Total Rewards & OD‑related risks,



build mitigation strategies and conduct regular risk assessment with findings reported to key stakeholders. Build tracking controls for pay internal equity, external market alignment and policy deviations, and proactively flag regulatory & legal risks for rewards design.
- Lead design and review of salary structures, allowance matrices and full benefits packages; roll out country‑entity specific guidelines. Conduct internal & external pay benchmarking to maintain market competitiveness. Oversee annual salary review, bonus and benefits cycles in collaboration with HRBPs and Finance teams.
- Manage end‑to‑end TR & OD projects including planning, execution oversight, stakeholder coordination and post‑implementation review. Handle off‑cycle and ad‑hoc TR / OD requests under governance, equity and cost boundaries. Lead cross‑entity task forces and prepare executive‑level reporting packages.
- Drive iteration and enterprise‑wide deployment of job architecture frameworks. Deliver job evaluations and structural alignment reviews using formal methodologies; deliver spans‑and‑layers optimization and organizational realignment recommendations.
- Partner with Performance & Talent teams to integrate performance outcomes with reward programs and career paths. Ensure structural consistency and reward governance for recognition, retention and promotion activities.
- Design, implement and refine short‑term and long‑term incentive plans aligned with business strategy. Monitor eligibility, KPI alignment, payout modelling and budget impact.
- Own total rewards budgeting tools; oversee simulation, forecasting and reconciliation, and provide executive‑level analysis on cost drivers and budget adherence.
- Lead market survey participation and internal/external benchmarking.



Build dashboards and analytics to support TR‑related business decisions.
- Manage external consultants and vendors (Mercer, WTW, benefits suppliers) against SLA, data quality and cost‑effectiveness requirements. Act as the key TR & OD point of contact for entity HR, Finance and Legal teams.
- Serve as senior subject‑matter expert for TR & OD execution across business units. Coach junior TR resources and HRBPs via knowledge sharing and project collaboration. Foster aligned cross‑CoE and entity‑HR collaboration, and embed fairness, transparency and equity as core principles for all reward and OD work.

Qualifications & Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering or related fields; Master’s / MBA is preferred.
- In‑depth knowledge of Total Rewards & OD principles, including compensation strategy, benefits design, job evaluation, organizational design, job architecture and leveling frameworks.
- Minimum 8+ years hands‑on Total Rewards and OD experience, ideally within a multinational / regional holding company with diversified business units.
- Hands‑on proficiency with HR analytics platforms e.g. SAP SuccessFactors, Power BI, Hyperion for compensation modelling, equity analysis and organizational diagnostics.
- Proven end‑to‑end Total Rewards project management capability: project planning, milestone tracking, stakeholder engagement and post‑implementation reporting.
- Practical experience applying job‑evaluation & grading methodologies
- Advanced Excel skills with solid financial modelling for reward‑budget simulation and incentive‑plan design.
- Strong analytical mindset, able to leverage data for decision‑making and measure rewards‑program impact.
- Strategic thinking and proven problem‑solving for complex compensation & benefits challenges.
- Demonstrated track record of cross‑function / cross‑HR‑team collaboration to deliver business‑aligned total rewards strategies.
- Proficient written and verbal English communication skills.

📌 Global Total Rewards Sr General Manager, Strategic Lead (India)
🏢 Cornerstone Global Partners (CGP Group)
📍 India