Chief Manager - HR`

Axis Max Life Insurance; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Axis Max Life Insurance seeks an HR leader to represent HR in the Zonal Leadership Team and align people strategy with business goals for the North Zone. You will design and deploy HR strategies, build manpower plans, ensure quality of hires, and drive engagement, organizational design, talent management, rewards, and performance processes across the North Zone.

This role emphasizes effective stakeholder management, change initiatives, and nurturing a high-performance culture through coaching

Responsibilities

• Positively influence business heads that they are aligned to the people agenda and also ensure peoples strategy dovetails with the business strategy
• Conceptualize and deploy HR strategy for North Zone of Core
• Develop and deploy an effective Manpower Plan
• Ensure quality of hire
• Ensure key Talent Retention
• Conceptualize and deploy Employee Engagement Initiatives
• Assist North Zone leadership to determine and deploy the most effective organisational structure addressing business requirements
• Track to Budget vs. actual and contribute to Productivity and Cost effectiveness
• Operationalize OTR (Organization Talent Review) for the Growth &
• Variable Agency
• Create and execute the succession plan for key roles
• Engage and develop Best bets
• Effective execution of MDR (Management Development Review) framework
• Enable training and development of all employees (TNA, delivery and feedback)
• Promote internal mobility and gender diversity
• Institutionalize Organizational Values in employees and processes
• Embed effective implementation of Rewards framework, including customer centricity
• Leverage employee engagement activities to build organization culture
• Ensure unbiased investigation and compliance with the policy and process, and closure of issues reported
• Equip business with appropriate tools & knowledge to effectively manage people, in line with the plans eg Performance Management, Career Management etc
• Identify how existing HR policies / systems & processes can be tailor made to North Zone Agency specific needs
• Ensure alignment with all statutory requirements
• Foster a high-performance culture in the Team through strategic talent development, coaching, and team engagement.
• Provide project management support & HR expertise to the business with specific related projects outside of the people plans, identify strategic people issues in partnership with key clients & support them with advice & expertise to resolve these matters. Contribute to the delivery of business area on key performance indicators

Job description

Key Responsibilities

HR Representation in Zonal Leadership Team

• Positively influence business heads that they are aligned to the people agenda and also ensure peoples strategy dovetails with the business strategy

HR Strategy for Respective Zone

• Conceptualize and deploy HR strategy for North Zone of Core

Agency to support Business Plans

• Develop and deploy an effective Manpower Plan
• Ensure quality of hire
• Ensure key Talent Retention
• Conceptualize and deploy Employee Engagement Initiatives

Organizational Design

• Assist North ZOne leadership to determine and deploy the most effective organisational structure addressing business requirements
• Track to Budget vs. actual and contribute to Productivity and Cost effectiveness

Talent Management and Development for all North Zpne employees

• Operationalize OTR (Organization Talent Review) for the Growth &
• Variable Agency
• Create and execute the succession plan for key roles
• Engage and develop Best bets
• Effective execution of MDR (Management Development Review) framework
• Enable training and development of all employees (TNA, delivery and feedback)
• Promote internal mobility and gender diversity

Build Organization Culture and Reinforce Values

• Institutionalize Organizational Values in employees and processes
• Embed effective implementation of Rewards framework, including customer centricity
• Leverage employee engagement activities to build organization culture
• Ensure unbiased investigation and compliance with the policy and process, and closure of issues reported

Performance & Compensation Management

• Oversee implementation of annual performance appraisal process in order to ensure timely completion of performance management cycle.
• Drive moderation of ratings for North Zone Agency and assist the business heads in making promotion decisions
• Support business in decision making (Fitment) & allocation of compensation quantum for North Zone Agency. Effectively use JE (Job Evaluation) and Market benchmarks
• Deploy and monitor effectiveness of Performance review process and compensation actions

Employee Relations and Communication

• Institutionalize employee relation forums that provide opportunity to employees to connect and bond with management and peers
• Enable productive organizational climate
• Enable openness and two-way communication between employees and management through communication forums such as town halls, skip level meetings, focused group discussions
• Enable employee engagement by executing action plan emerging from employee surveys
• Handle grievances
• Provide coaching & counseling to build a motivated team; and ensure smooth & cordial relations

HR Policy Deployment & development

• Equip business with appropriate tools & knowledge to effectively manage people, in line with the plans eg Performance Management,
• Career Management etc
• Identify how existing HR policies / systems & processes can be tailor made to North Zone Agency specific needs
• Ensure alignment with all statutory requirements
• Foster a high-performance culture in the Team through strategic talent development, coaching, and team engagement.

Project Management

• Provide project management support & HR expertise to the business with specific related projects outside of the people plans, identify strategic people issues in partnership with key clients & support them with advice & expertise to resolve these matters. Contribute to the delivery of business area on key performance indicators