Senior Manager - Talent Management (SM Level)

Location: Gurgaon NCR

Role Purpose:

The Senior Manager - Talent Management will be responsible for designing and driving the organization's talent strategy, including performance management, succession planning, leadership development, talent reviews, high-potential identification, employee engagement, and career development initiatives. The role will partner with business leaders to build a strong leadership pipeline and foster a high-performance culture aligned with organizational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute the organization's Talent Management framework aligned with business objectives.

- Drive talent philosophy, talent governance, and capability-building initiatives across the organization.

- Partner with leadership to identify current and future talent requirements.

- Lead the end-to-end Performance Management System (PMS) cycle.

- Drive goal setting, mid-year reviews, annual performance assessments, moderation, and calibration exercises.

- Ensure alignment between business goals, individual objectives, and reward outcomes.

- Enhance performance culture through continuous feedback and coaching mechanisms.

- Facilitate talent review discussions with business leaders.

- Build and maintain succession plans for critical and leadership roles.

- Identify high-potential employees and create development roadmaps.

- Monitor talent risks and readiness levels across key positions.

- Design and implement leadership development frameworks and interventions.

- Manage leadership assessment centers, development centers, and executive coaching initiatives.

- Create leadership capability programs for emerging, mid-level, and senior leaders.

- Track effectiveness of leadership development investments.

- Partner with the Learning & Development team to address capability gaps.

- Establish career paths, competency frameworks, and development journeys.

- Drive Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and talent acceleration programs.

- Support internal mobility and career progression initiatives.

- Analyze employee engagement insights and develop action plans.

- Drive initiatives focused on retention of critical and high-performing talent.

- Support culture-building and employee experience programs.

- Monitor talent-related KPIs and engagement trends.

- Develop talent dashboards and provide insights to leadership. Track metrics including: Talent Bench Strength, Succession Coverage, Internal Mobility, Leadership Readiness, Performance Distribution, Employee Engagement Scores.

- Present talent insights and recommendations to senior management.

- Partner with Business Heads and HR Business Partners to drive talent outcomes.

- Act as a trusted advisor to leadership on people and talent matters.

- Influence organizational decisions through talent data and insights.

Qualifications & Exp:

- Full time MBA / PGDM in Human Resources or related discipline from a reputed institute.

- Certification in Talent Management, Organizational Development, Leadership Development, or Assessment Tools preferred.

- 8-12 years of progressive HR experience with significant exposure to Talent Management, Performance Management, Succession Planning, and Leadership Development. IC role.

- Experience in Housing Finance, NBFC, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, or Retail Lending sectors preferred.

- Proven experience in building and scaling talent frameworks within a growing organization, have worked on Success Factor.