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Level 3#LI-Hybrid
Location: Hyderabad, India
Relocation Support: This role is based in Hyderabad, India. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.
In this role, you will drive operational excellence in global rewards, managing complex processes, vendors, and systems while ensuring accuracy, structure, and timely delivery. You will act as a key connector across internal stakeholders and external partners, translating strategic objectives into clear guidelines and supporting their implementation. This is a highly autonomous role where your organization, attention to detail, and ability to multitask and communicate confidently will directly impact business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Facilitate the global benchmarking survey cycle, including scope definition, stakeholder training, and vendor coordination
Maintain and update benchmarking documentation (functional matching, governance, training materials) to ensure accuracy and relevance
Develop training materials (videos, work instructions, process guides) to enable consistent execution and stakeholder understanding
Ensure data quality and completeness across benchmarking platforms in line with audit requirements
Support deviation reviews by analyzing market data, business context, and labor trends to define competitive ranges
Lead benchmarking-related projects, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of outcomes
Drive continuous improvement by simplifying and automating processes, and building dashboards and analytics for data-driven decisions
Support annual budgeting and salary increase processes, ensuring alignment with local market, legal, and stakeholder requirements
Essential Requirements
2 to 5 years of HR Experience (Preferably in Compensation & Benefits)
Basic understanding of compensation elements in an organizational context
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex, matrixed, global environment.
Strong data analytics and presentation skills
Stakeholder engagement
Excellent knowledge of MS Office (word, power point and excel)
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to diversityandincl.india@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
Skills Desired
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
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