Lead - HR Operations & Total Rewards, India Affiliate

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Job Title: Lead - HR Operations & Rewards, India Affiliate  

Function: Human Resources

Job Level: P3

Reports to: HR Director – India

Location: Gurgaon, India

Team: 1-2 Direct Reports

Overall Job purpose

Lead the HR Operations and Rewards portfolio for India commercial affiliate for the site of ~500 employees. Position is responsible to providing functional leadership to the team besides partnering with global COEs to ensure HR strategy, operations and deliverables are consistent with global process, technology, policies in delivering positive employee experiences. The position also acts as an HR Lead team member of core HR group at affiliate in developing HR strategy and implementation.  The position is responsible to ensure the financial (payroll – the large cost item), HR data integrity (custodian of people and HR records), ensuring rewards are competitive to attract and retain the best talents, policies and procedures, ensuring the control plan to ensure Lilly is fully compliant with applicable labour & statutory laws. The incumbent is also responsible for around 20% of time for One India Hub related HR initiatives as per the overall HR strategy and need.

Job Responsibilities

• As a Total Rewards Specialist for the India Affiliate, will be responsible to provide effective consultation on compensation and benefit programs at Lilly. Additionally, the incumbent will work closely with other team members in the broader global compensation organization to ensure Lilly India consistently delivers competitive compensation programs that align to our pay for performance philosophy and effectively delivered to the organization.
• Partner with HR core group and global compensation consultant and benefits to develop competitive compensation & benefits programs for the site including administration – e.g. participation in the C&B surveys, facilitating off-cycle adjustments, partnering / supporting in the strategic rewards projects, Compensation scales levelling or relevelling as per business case
• Be the focal point for all employee benefits for affiliate – partner with global Benefits team to include administration of all existing benefits and to lead changes needed for any workplace/employee benefits – Ex. Medical Insurance, Relocation, other benefit schemes for affiliate as per need
• Be the controller and gatekeep the HC targets for the affiliate across various subgroups and ensure affiliate complies with the HC targets allocated for the year. Additionally, also manage the PRE/People Related Expenses to have the budgeting and forecasting of total rewards cost for the employee group in affiliate. This role is also responsible for sharing such data when needed and establish governance to track it periodically and assist in the Business Planning exercise as per global company timelines with Finance team & HR leadership.
• Develop and ensure governance RACI in managing rewards (e.g. Off cycle adjustments) & policies administration controls
• Create the end to end implementation plan to successfully complete the Annual Compensation Review process annually for the entire India affiliate (Commercial, GS, Medical functions)
• Provide leadership in effective management of HR Operations across HR workgroups to ensure the processes, procedures and technology are consistent with Lilly’s global standards and leveraging Workday and HR solutions. Identification of the opportunities and partnership with global HR technology in driving required changes to keep it relevant for affiliate.
• Supervise on timely and accurately delivery on payroll and ancillary services such as bank disbursement, provident fund, professional tax, labour welfare funds. Ensure the process and controls are aligned with Lilly’s financial controls and standards. Define sustainability in the process through makers and checkers controls.
• Ensure Contract Workforce management is compliant with Lilly standard and local statutory and labour laws requirements including creating guardrails and processes to mitigate external compliance risks through supervisors education and refreshers and periodic checks & balances.
• Ensure compliance with applicable labour and statutory laws across the site including working with external compliance and legal partners and serve as a point of contact / owner to confirm control compliances for the board meetings.
• Successfully lead HR and other financial audits (required by financial statutory requirements and law) to ensure internal HR controls are meeting Lilly’s requirements & standards
• Ensure timely and accurately management of exit process on a monthly basis through stakeholders e.g. supervisors, facilities, IT and Finance. Additionally, ensure there is periodic and timely rigour on write-off and recoveries as defined in the process for the approval of board.
• Lead HR policies and procedures – simplify, timely & periodic reviews and renewals including communication / awareness / integrated for ease of accessible for the employees.
• Primary POC for all HR Systems data pull outs and WD reports to help in data-based decision making. Responsible to drive HR automation projects either through Chatbot/AI tools with Tech@Lilly team or internally with HR LT members to drive HR data metrics on a monthly basis to publish HR dashboards
• Maintaining the HR India email box and governance of the require HR internal communications.

Position Requirements

• MBA/PGDM qualification is required
• Minimum 8+ years of total experience with at least 3 years of relevant experience in Compensation, benefits, HR Compliances, HRIS,  HR Operations
• Strong attention to detail and precision is required
• Strong analytical and expertise to manage data in large volume
• Deep knowledge on HR Systems and processes to drive execution
• Adherence to Lilly’s values and purpose
• Demonstrated leadership and resilience in dealing with ambiguity and complex situations
• High on integrity, collaboration and trustworthiness
• Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to multitask.
• High level of motivation and a strong desire to find solutions.

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