Designation: Lead Comp&Ben

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)

The Compensation & Benefits team partners with business leaders and HR Business Partners to design, evaluate, and optimize remuneration frameworks and employee benefit programs.

We focus on ensuring competitive positioning in the market, maintaining internal equity, enabling performance-driven pay, and delivering operational excellence across the employee lifecycle.

We are looking for a Lead Compensation & Benefits professional who goes beyond transactional execution - someone who brings executive advisory, advanced AI-driven analytical rigor, market intelligence, and strategic leadership to support global business decision-making.

Roles and responsibilities:

- Lead annual industry-based remuneration benchmarking exercises using AI-driven compensation intelligence and market data platforms.

- Analyze complex benchmarking data and leverage predictive models to develop job-level compensation proposals and salary band structures.

- Conduct advanced market analysis, pay equity audits, and internal relativity comparisons to ensure fairness, competitiveness, and transparency.

- Draft, govern, and maintain job descriptions, job architectures, and classification frameworks.

- Lead performance management and compensation budgeting cycles, utilizing scenario-modeling tools to forecast pay-for-performance outcomes and bonus distributions.

- Evaluate and report on the effectiveness of employee benefit programs using usage metrics and sentiment analysis.

- Measure and communicate the performance and ROI of C&B solutions and services within India and global hubs.

- Oversee and validate India payroll inputs to ensure accuracy and compliance.

- Ensure timely and accurate computation and audit of pay changes across the full employee lifecycle (hiring, promotions, transfers, exits, retirement).

- Partner as a key advisor with senior HRBPs, business leaders, and executive leadership on compensation strategy, policy interpretation, and talent retention risks.

- Drive end-to-end data analysis, dashboarding, and automated reporting on compensation, benefits, and total rewards metrics.

Qualifications We Are Looking For:

- 10+ years of experience in Compensation & Benefits, Total Rewards, or HR Data Analytics.

- Strategic & Implementation experience in remuneration benchmarking, salary structuring, and job architecture frameworks (e.g., Hay, Mercer, WTW).

- Deep understanding of modern C&B tools, HRIS platforms, automated reward frameworks, and evolving market practices.

- Proven experience developing and implementing HR/C&B policies.

- Comprehensive knowledge of remuneration trends, pay transparency and compliance standards.

- Advanced analytical skills with high proficiency and exposure to AI tools, predictive modeling, or HR analytics platforms.

- Strong global stakeholder management with compelling articulation skills to deliver local compliance perspectives and market insights across diverse workforce demographics.

- Detail-oriented mindset balanced with strategic foresight, compliance governance, and process automation expertise.