KARTHIK SHIVRAM
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic compensation strategist with a proven track record at IBM, excelling in global benchmarking and salary optimization. Expert in data modeling and process engineering, I drive operational efficiency and deliver actionable insights. Adept at aligning compensation frameworks with corporate goals, I leverage advanced analytics and strong advisory skills to enhance organizational competitiveness.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Specialist – Global Compensation Market Intelligence
IBM India Private Limited
Bangalore
08.2024 - Current
- Target Market Footprint: Greater China Group (GCG - China, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Japan, and South Korea
- Market Benchmarking Architecture: Directs end-to-end local and global strategic compensation benchmarking using premium external salary surveys (Mercer, Radford, Willis Towers Watson) to discover and implement highly precise, data-backed salary lines.
- China Tier Model Optimization: Partnered closely with GCG Compensation Leads to systematically overhaul and re-engineer the legacy China Tier Differential Model, eliminating structural redundancies, decreasing processing cycles, and optimizing localized salary agility.
- Japan Framework Consolidation: Conducted a comprehensive analytical audit of Japan's legacy compensation structures, moving a complex and fragmented four-tier model into a unified, optimized single market range framework.
- Cross-Business Job Leveling: Maps intricate, specialized internal technical and managerial roles across multiple fast-evolving business segments onto standardized external industry indices utilizing global job leveling metrics.
- Expert Advisory Support: Acts as a core technical consultant to country-level Compensation Partners, contextualizing macro-economic inflation trends, competitive labor talent shifts, and statutory regulations to align regional pay policies with corporate goals.
Manager – Global Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking
GSK India Global Services Private Limited
Bangalore
03.2021 - 08.2024
- Target Market Footprint: Europe and Latin America (LATAM) | Senior Individual Contributor Track
- Global Portfolio Management: Process managed and executed the full lifecycle delivery of External Market Ranges for 80+ countries globally, providing a critical, data-validated baseline for the company's Annual Pay Review Process.
- Total Cost Modeling: Formulated and deployed the Total Employment Costs framework project spanning 68 nations, aligning disparate statutory benefits and base data to establish clear cost-to-company visibility natively mapped within Workday.
- Operational Standardization: Spearheaded strategic process optimization tracks across 4 global shared service delivery hubs, standardizing technical data collection protocols and eliminating structural variation to institute unified global 'Ways of Working'.
- Vendor Data Consultation: Owned complex technical integrations with primary global data vendors; extracted and contextualized market data insights to advise local HR Heads and Business Unit Leaders on structural competitive positioning.
Process Manager / Operations Specialist
Mercer Consulting India
Noida / Bangalore
10.2009 - 01.2021
- Target Market Footprint: Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australia & New Zealand (ANZ), Malaysia, Japan, South Korea
- Portfolio & Analytics Ownership: Maintained sole accountability over the end-to-end execution of high-volume compensation and benefits portfolios, providing core domain expertise regarding complex multi-sector salary survey operations and data modeling loops.
- International Process Migration: Successfully transitioned the critical ANZ Survey Process architecture from Warsaw to Bangalore, designing resilient, high-throughput technical workflows and scaling key performance delivery metrics from day one.
- Process & SLA Optimization: Managed complex, cross-geography multi-sector survey data pipelines, consistently exceeding aggressive global data validation and delivery SLAs through predictive trend analysis and pipeline tracking.
- Quality Automation Initiatives: Championed the development and deployment of customized automated workflows for large-scale market data validation, driving sharp operational efficiency gains and eliminating core data entry variations.
Senior Manager – Compensation & Benefits
Unichem Laboratories Limited
11.2017 - 03.2018
Work Leader – Senior Associate, Total Rewards Delivery
Fidelity Business Services
06.2005 - 09.2009
Data Processing Executive, Global Operations
HSBC Electronic Data Processing
01.2004 - 05.2005
Process Associate
Comat Technologies
09.2002 - 01.2004
Education
Certified Rewards Ready -
AON HR Learning Center
Karnataka01.2025
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) -
Karnataka State Open University
01.2002
National Diploma in Computer Studies -
JSS International Institute for Professional Studies
01.1998
Skills
- Total Rewards Strategy & Analytics
- Salary structural range development
- Job evaluation methodologies
- Internal equity leveling
- Variable pay modeling
- Multi-entity policy harmonization
- Market Intelligence & Benchmarking
- Global industry survey datasets administration
- Macro-economic salary trend projection
- Regional peer group competitive variance mapping
- Process Engineering & Migration
- Cross-border process architecture transitions
- Multi-hub shared services workflow standardization
- Service level agreement (SLA) metrics tracking
- Advanced technical data validation loops
- Data Modeling & Consultation
- Translating complex structural data vectors
- Predictive data cleansing automation
- Workday integrations
- Executive advisory
Key Highlights And Corporate Awards
- Successfully turned around client satisfaction indices, increasing the operational survey Net Promoter Score (NPS) from a legacy low of -6 up to an exceptional +81.3.
- Awarded Silver Award for outstanding project management of the Global Annual Pay Review Process; Silver Award for establishing exemplary consultative partnerships with UK corporate business units; Bronze Award for exceptional data integrity modeling during the Global Total Cash collection pipeline.
- Honored with the prestigious Best Stakeholder Management Award, Corporate Role Model of the Year, and the Regional Survey Operations Top Performance Award (APAC Hub).
Core Technical Expertise
- Total Rewards Strategy & Analytics: Salary structural range development, job evaluation methodologies (Mercer IPE, WTW Global Grading), internal equity leveling, variable pay modeling, and multi-entity policy harmonization.
- Market Intelligence & Benchmarking: Comprehensive administration of global industry survey datasets (Mercer, Willis Towers Watson, Radford), macro-economic salary trend projection, and regional peer group competitive variance mapping.
- Process Engineering & Migration: Cross-border process architecture transitions, multi-hub shared services workflow standardization, service level agreement (SLA) metrics tracking, and advanced technical data validation loops.
- Data Modeling & Consultation: Translating complex structural data vectors into contextual insights for HR stakeholders, predictive data cleansing automation, Workday integrations, and executive advisory.
Timeline
Specialist – Global Compensation Market Intelligence
IBM India Private Limited
08.2024 - Current
Manager – Global Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking
GSK India Global Services Private Limited
03.2021 - 08.2024
Senior Manager – Compensation & Benefits
Unichem Laboratories Limited
11.2017 - 03.2018
Process Manager / Operations Specialist
Mercer Consulting India
10.2009 - 01.2021
Work Leader – Senior Associate, Total Rewards Delivery
Fidelity Business Services
06.2005 - 09.2009
Data Processing Executive, Global Operations
HSBC Electronic Data Processing
01.2004 - 05.2005
Process Associate
Comat Technologies
09.2002 - 01.2004
Certified Rewards Ready -
AON HR Learning Center
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) -
Karnataka State Open University
National Diploma in Computer Studies -
JSS International Institute for Professional Studies