Axis Max Life Insurance - Chief Manager - Human Resources

Designation: Chief Manager - HR

Role: Zonal HR (Mumbai, Gujarat and Goa)

Education: Full time MBA required

Experience range: 10 to 16 yrs

Work Location: Mumbai (Andheri East)

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 Zone 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.