Job Description
Job Summary
- The Talent and Reward Partner manage the full employee lifecycle, from attracting to designing competitive reward structures that drive performance, retention, and fairness. This position requires a proactive and analytical HR professional with expertise in talent acquisition, compensation and benefits, and workforce planning.
- The Talent & Reward Partner also leverages HR metrics, people analytics, and data visualization tools to drive evidence-based decisions across all employee lifecycle processes.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Talent Management:
- Manage the full employee lifecycle, including end-to-end recruitment, onboarding, offboarding and retention initiatives.
- Develop and implement innovative hiring strategies to attract top talent and strengthen employer brand.
- Lead succession planning, workforce forecasting, and skill-gap analysis to ensure business continuity and talent readiness.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure recruitment strategies align with organizational priorities.
- Create and maintain a seamless, high-quality candidate experience.
- Implement retention initiatives to improve engagement and reduce turnover.
- Educate Hiring Managers on effective hiring practices and maintain recruitment standards.
- Leverage HR metrics, people analytics, and data visualization to drive evidence-based decisions across talent and reward processes.
- Contribute to HR-related projects, talent pipeline development, and strategic partnerships.
- Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across all talent processes.
Reward (Compensation & Benefit):
- Develop, review, and maintain compensation structures, salary benchmarks, and job grading frameworks.
- Administer compensation and benefits programs, including benchmarking, reward cycles, and performance-linked incentives.
- Conduct regular compensation analysis to ensure fairness, competitiveness, and alignment with industry trends.
- Manage benefit programs (HMO, insurance, leave benefits, allowances, welfare initiatives, etc.)
- Provide guidance to employees and managers on reward policies, entitlements, and compensation decisions
- Support the budgeting process by providing salary and workforce cost data.
- Manage annual performance-linked rewards in collaboration with the performance management team.
- Ensure all reward documentation, payroll inputs, and employee records are accurate and up to date.
Competency and Skill Requirements:
Job-Related Skills
- Recruitment Expertise: Skilled in sourcing, interviewing, and evaluating candidates.
- Talent Management: Strong knowledge of lifecycle processes — onboarding, development, engagement, and retention.
- Compensation & Benefits: Ability to design and administer salary structures, benefits, and reward programs.
- Workforce Planning: Expertise in forecasting, succession planning, and skill-gap analysis.
- Leadership Development: Experience with training design, career pathways, and feedback tools.
- Data Analysis: Strong ability to interpret HR and compensation metrics for decision-making.
- Employer Branding: Ability to maintain and enhance organizational talent reputation.
Digital Skills
- HRIS, ATS proficiency.
- Strong Excel and data visualization ((Power BI/Tableau desirable) skills.
- Familiarity with digital sourcing platforms and employer branding tools.
- Experience in automating HR processes
Personal Qualities
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management capability.
- Strategic thinking with ability to align talent and reward practices to business goals.
- Proactive, resourceful, and solution oriented.
- High emotional intelligence, professionalism, and composure under pressure.
- Detail-oriented with strong documentation and process accuracy.
- Team player who drives cross-functional collaboration.
- Strong Excel, HRIS, and data visualization (Power BI, Tableau) skills
Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field.
- HR certification (CIPD, SHRM, HRCI, CIPM) is an advantage.
- Minimum 5 years' experience in talent acquisition, employee development, and compensation & benefits.
- Experience with job evaluation, salary benchmarking, and reward frameworks.
- Strong interpersonal, communication skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholder at all levels
- Proficiency in HR systems, data visualization and global HR processes.
- Analytical skills for workforce and compensation decisions.