Kotak Life Insurance - Regional Human Resource Manager

Regional Human Resource Manager

Location: Chandigarh

Line of Business: Agency Partner Channel

Reporting to: Zonal HR Head - North

Travelling: 6-8 days in a month

Role Summary: This position is responsible for talent acquisition, selection and employee lifecycle management.

The key responsibilities of the profile are;

- Leadership Hiring: This position is responsible for talent acquisition and management of sales leadership profiles for North India. The incumbent would be required to work with line managers in developing suitable and cost-effective recruitment and retention strategies. S/He would also need to interact with consultants for vacancies, share timely feedback and facilitate vendor payments.

- Selection: This position is responsible for acquiring the right talent at sales leadership levels through competency-based interviewing methodology. The incumbent should be well versed with different types of selection methodologies and should have relevant experience in interviewing for frontline sales and managerial positions. S/He should have a thorough understanding of competency framework and methodology and should be able to probe, interpret and assess relevant talent through superior interviewing skills.

- Coaching Line Managers on Interviewing Skills: The incumbent would be responsible for improving the interviewing and selection skills of line managers by coaching them and providing relevant feedback. S/He should be able to provide specific inputs and address the gaps through coaching and developmental feedback.

- Employee Engagement: The incumbent would be responsible for complete employee lifecycle management. S/He should be able to improve onboarding and employee experience by improving processes and using metrics-driven approach to improving overall employee alignment to organizational objectives. S/He should be able to understand and resolve regular issues and grievances through the structured approach and appropriate communication.

- Capability Building: This role requires close coordination with training & development team to identify specific skill gaps in individual employees and looking at appropriate training interventions to remove those gaps. The candidate is required to have a keen interest in improving productivity through development and coaching inputs to employee, superior and trainer.

Competencies required:

- Interviewing and selection skills

- Result Orientation

- Relationship building and Influencing Skills

- Change Management skills