Senior Manager - People Strategy

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of the next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Publicis Sapient is looking for Senior Manager People Strategy who will be responsible for strategic people consulting for Publicis Sapient India.

Your Impact:

1. Strategic People Consulting: Diagnose trends and needs around people imperatives; Create value by designing and implementing innovative and agile workforce solutions that drive business specific objectives; Embrace / assimilate technology and analytics as key enablers of workforce solutions & people experiences.

• People experiences: Devise sustainable ways of measuring people engagement; articulating an engagement framework that works on multiple levers of influence with concrete metrics for impact assessment; action planning against the annual engagement survey.
• Manage people performance: Drive the performance management approach; Identify outliers from a contribution/impact perspective and outline next steps to manage those.
• Integrated talent management: Influence perspectives and decisions on talent planning; Use existing talent profile frameworks for individual development planning and succession management; design programs to meet the needs of different talent profiles (high potential, leader group, women).
• Devise meaningful career journeys for people: Create frameworks for capability building to focus on craft; customized career paths for critical role holders that are anchored around capability, craft, potential and impact; strengthen people management capability.
• Rewards : Develop customized reward strategy for distinct capability groups/ skills/ talent profiles to drive larger business impact.
• Change management: Steward the change management effort to ensure design & execution of high-impact, seamless people solutions; Embrace / assimilate technology and analytics    key enablers of workforce solutions & people experiences.

II. Leadership enablement to develop a leadership pipeline that is diverse, innovative and collaborative to deliver transformative work for our clients

• Consult & partner with business leaders to engage, lead and manage organizational effectiveness and implement initiatives
• Coach and develop leaders and managers to deliver people management capabilities / business priorities

III. People program enablement in partnership with the extended People Success team (e.g. PSO, Core Services etc.) to deliver people programs across the brand

Accountable for driving people programs like promotions, bonus, merit etc to influence business and people imperatives/ priorities

IV. Culture Champion to steward the evolution of a culture that enables people to realize their potential

• Culture: Devise programs/ interventions/ recognition frameworks that reinforce our culture and inspire pride in our people
• Diversity: Influence perspectives and design programs/interventions to further the diversity agenda
• Community building: Reinforce organization initiatives around CSR, PRIDE, etc

Your Skills & Experience:

• SM People Strategy: 9-12 years of professional work experience in HR (preferably 2-3 years as  HR generalist & remaining as a Specialist)
• MBA / PGD with a specialization in HR / IR / OB / OD

A Tip from the Hiring Manager:

Join the team to sharpen your skills, expand your collaborative methods, and develop a flair for leadership. Make an impact on our clients and their businesses directly through your work and will see your ideas become reality.

Benefits of Working Here:

• Gender-Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year for NCR/BLR (22 For Mumbai)
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being