About This Role
This role is accountable for the design, governance, and continuous evolution of NIIT’s total rewards framework, encompassing compensation architecture, benefits strategy and administration, insurance governance, ESOP Management, and facilitating Board-level presentations. Operating within a listed enterprise across multiple geographies and talent segments, the role requires strategic depth to build frameworks that position NIIT competitively in the external market, analytical rigor to ensure internal equity and commercial defensibility, and executive presence to represent reward proposals to management.
Responsibilities
- Conduct the compensation benchmarking exercise using structured external survey data (Aon, Mercer, or equivalent); translate outputs into a comprehensive compensation grid covering mass roles, campus hires, niche positions, and senior leadership
- Design and maintain a structured job architecture - job families, bands, and pay ranges - inclusive of rubber-banding rules, promotion eligibility thresholds, and freeze parameters, ensuring the framework supports both internal equity and business agility
- Manage the end-to-end ESOP lifecycle — grants, vesting, exercises, and lapses — in coordination with Legal, Finance, and the Company Secretary, ensuring full compliance
- Manage the annual merit and variable pay cycle - data governance, calibration support, HRIS interface, and payroll handoff - with full audit-readiness at each stage
- Partner with stakeholders on compensation budgeting, cost modeling, and affordability analysis, ensuring all reward recommendations are commercially grounded prior to leadership approval
- Prepare, structure, and present the annual compensation proposal to the Management - covering senior leadership remuneration, variable pay outcomes, proposed adjustments, and benchmarking substantiation
- Serve as the subject matter expert for the organization pertaining to compensation, remuneration philosophy, and market positioning
- Lead the end-to-end benefits revamp - benchmarking the current portfolio against market norms, identifying gaps, designing a competitive and cost-efficient benefits package, and executing implementation
- Govern all group benefit schemes - mediclaim, term life, personal accident, and supplementary covers - across the full lifecycle: enrollment, renewals, endorsements, claims oversight, and utilization analysis
- Own policy design, periodic review, and governance as a component of the broader perquisites framework
- Design the R&R framework
- Establish R&R governance standards - equity of access, linkage to performance outcomes, and periodic calibration of recognition quality and distribution
- Partner with the PMS Lead on performance-to-reward linkage design, ensuring calibration outputs translate into differentiated and commercially defensible compensation decisions
