Abhijit

Strategic and Analytical Compensation & Benefits leader with 20+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing total rewards programs for large and mid-sized organizations. Proven ability to align reward structures with business goals, drive cost optimization, ensure statutory compliance, and enhance employee engagement. Trusted advisor to CHROs and executive leadership on pay strategy, benefits competitiveness, and organizational effectiveness.

• Certified Compensation and Benefits (Total Rewards), AON Hewitt
• Generative AI and Its impact on HR, IBM
• People Analytics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• HR Analytics, Jigsaw Academy

• Achieved 13% reduction in employee benefits costs (GMC, Term Life, GPA) through strategic vendor negotiations and plan optimization.
• Led Market Benchmarking aligning salaries with market median resulting in improved offer-to-join ratio by 20%.
• Enhanced employee satisfaction score by 8% by designing and introducing a cost-effective flexible benefits plan.

• SHRM, Associate member
• NHRDN, Delhi, Associate member

• Develop a consistent C&B strategy in line with the organizational objectives that rewards high performance within the organization.
• Responsible for compensation and benefits management such as salary benchmarking, maintain internal equity and external parity and designing structure in line with the income tax and statutory guidelines.
• Design effective communication strategies to increase knowledge and awareness around the rewards philosophy and programs amongst employees.
• Design, evaluate and modify benefits policies to ensure that programs are current, competitive and in compliance with legal requirements.
• Responsible for formulating and designing employee benefits programs such as Group Mediclaim, Group Personal Accident and Group Term Life Insurance Policy.
• Managing the promotion process, job architecture, and job evaluation to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness.
• Responsible for policy formulation and benchmarking against key competitors. Prepared progressive and market driven people policy.
• Driving the Performance Management System. Ensuring effective and timely implementation of PMS activities including goal setting, mid-year and end-year review, normalization, compensation revision & career progression.
• Cascading core values across all units such as organizing values workshop, leadership speak, quiz and reward and recognition program based on core values.
• Coaching managers about the goal setting process based on CSA's (Company Strategic Action) and FSA's (Function Strategic Action) encompassing the 4 major elements of BSC (Balanced Score Card) i.e. Revenue, profitability, process and culture.