Analyst, HR Operations

Whirlpool, Inc.; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Whirlpool, Inc. in India seeks a Total Rewards professional to own direct rewards for Indian entities, overseeing 1600+ white collars and ~9500 blue collars across locations.

You will design incentive programs, manage performance bonus plans, administer benefits, and provide advisory support to HR partners while ensuring data integrity in HR systems. A strong Excel and data-analysis background is essential.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of progressive compensation experience or similar experience.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution; Masters in HR is preferred.
• Knowledgeable of all major aspects of compensation delivery and design principles.
• Demonstrable experience with job architecture frameworks and salary structure design.
• Strong Excel, data collection, and data visualization skills.
• Experience working in FMCD industry preferred.
• Strong communication, analytical, and human relations skills.
• Skilled at effectively managing and prioritizing escalations or business-critical situations.
• Consistently exhibits high levels of discretion, integrity, and confidentiality.
• Ability to work under pressure and independently, following tight deadlines and an agile approach.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and delivery of competitive direct rewards programmes aligned with country-specific legal requirements.
• Design and manage implementation of employee incentive programmes; respond to internal stakeholder needs; clarify financial, performance, and behavioral parameters.
• Design and manage implementation of Performance bonus plans and coordinate with subsidiaries.
• Provide ad-hoc analysis and material preparation, review reward submissions across employee groups.
• Renew and lead benefit programs such as employee insurances, pension programs and wellness initiatives.
• Advise HR partners on direct rewards matters to attract and retain talent.
• Manage job evaluation, including salary benchmarking for new or changed roles; conduct impact analyses.
• Support day-to-day rewards operations and ensure data integrity in HR systems.
• Administer other HR initiatives such as Rewards & Recognition.

Skills

Salary benchmarking

Job evaluation

Excel

Data visualization

HR analytics

Communication

Discretion & confidentiality

Deadline-driven

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Masters in HR

Tools

HRIS systems

Job description

The team you will be a part of

The HR Operations team effectively maintains employee information that meets the organization's legal obligations and assists in human resource management and planning by recommending, developing and implementing new processes and analyses.

This role in summary

The job holder is the subject matter expert for all direct rewards activities for Indian entities (managing around 1600+ White collars and approx 9500 Blue collars and is accountable for designing, implementing and managing all rewards programmes and processes across multiple locations, to ensure we have the right rewards frameworks, and tools in place, effectively incentivise and recognise high performance to support the Company to achieve business objectives).

Your responsibilities will include

Rewards programmes design and management

• Contribute to the design and delivery of competitive direct rewards programmes that are aligned and are in compliance with country specific legal requirements.
• Design and manage the implementation of employee incentive programmes; identify and respond to the needs of internal stakeholders; clarify the financial, business performance, and behavioral parameters that are to be met; ensure compliance with external legal requirements.
• Design and manage implementation of Performance bonus plan, including individual employee eligibility and special cases review and coordination, project and stakeholder management across internal working groups including subsidiaries.
• Provide support to the Total Rewards leader including ad-hoc analysis and modeling/ material preparation, review of all temporary and permanent reward change submissions across all employee groups.
• Renew & lead the benefit programs such as Employee benefit insurances, pension programs and wellness initiatives.

Total rewards advisory and management

• Rewards advisory partner for HR business partners, Regional HR teams or line of business, provide COE advice on all direct rewards matters, supporting the business to acquire, motivate and retain talent.
• Manage job evaluation, including salary benchmarking for new positions or changed roles, and ad-hoc job evaluation exercise, manage impact analyses and implementation planning.
• Support Total Rewards leader on day-to-day rewards operations, ensuring data integrity in HR systems
• Administer other HR or rewards initiatives such as Rewards & Recognition

Management Of Annual Compensation Cycle

• Plan and manage annual salary structure and market range review.
• Conduct regular pay and benefits benchmarking exercises, market analyses and other cost modeling.
• Facilitate the regular salary review, discretionary bonus, and profit share scheme processes, including planning, modeling, and implementation.
• Manage the annual compensation management cycle, including the compensation management technology system and any releases, enhancements, or improvements.

Minimum requirements

Education & experience requirements

• 2+ years of progressive compensation experience or similar experience
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution; Masters in HR is preferred
• Knowledgeable of all major aspects of compensation delivery and design principles
• Demonstrable experience with job architecture frameworks and salary structure design
• Strong Excel, data collection, and data visualization skills
• Experience working in the FMCD industry preferred
• Strong communication, analytical, and human relations skills
• Skilled at effectively managing and prioritizing escalations or business-critical situations
• Consistently exhibits high levels of discretion, integrity, and confidentiality
• Ability to work under pressure and independently, following tight deadlines and an agile approach.