Deputy General Manager - Talent Management - Auto/Auto Ancillary

Company Brief:

Hiring for world's leading autocomponent company.

Job Role Brief:

The role will spearhead the enterprise-wide Talent Management strategy across corporate and plant locations. This role is pivotal in driving performance management systems, establishing robust succession pipelines, enabling internal mobility, and governing career structures. Partnering closely with business leadership, plant HR teams, and functional heads, the Talent Management Lead ensures that talent policies, grading, and development frameworks directly support business expansion and organizational growth.

Key Accountability Statement:

- Performance Management System (PMS): Drive the end-to-end performance management lifecycle, goal setting, appraisal cycles, and review frameworks across business units.

- Succession Planning: Design, execute, and govern robust succession planning models to identify high-potentials, assess bench strength, and build future-ready leadership pipelines.

- IDP & Check-in Governance: Establish guidelines, oversight, and periodic governance for Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and continuous performance check-ins to track progress and ensure accountability.

- Talent Reviews & Support: Support and facilitate talent reviews with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, leveraging key talent metrics, risk assessments, and talent health dashboards to drive decision-making.

- Career Path Management & Progressions: Define clear career pathways, progression frameworks, and promotion guidelines aligned with organizational growth.

- Internal Mobility & Talent Deployment: Enable seamless internal mobility programs to facilitate talent cross-leveraging across business divisions and geography.

- Grading & Banding Governance: Establish and maintain governance over job grading, job evaluation structures, and compensation banding across corporate and plant functions.

- Talent Policies & Process Ownership: Formulate, standardize, and govern enterprise-wide talent policies and guidelines to ensure fairness, consistency, and alignment with industry practices.

Candidate Profile:

- Extensive experience in performance management, talent review support, succession planning, IDP governance, and career framework design.

- Demonstrated capability in managing grading/banding structures, continuous check-in processes, internal mobility programs, and talent policies.

- Proven experience supporting and partnering with business leadership and cross-functional teams in large enterprise or manufacturing environments.

- Exposure to HR tools/platforms (e.g., SAP SuccessFactors) for talent management module governance, IDP tracking, and review administration.

Key Competencies:

- Succession Planning

- IDP & Check-in Governance

- Talent Reviews & Decision Support

- Performance Management

- Career Path Management & Progressions

- Internal Mobility

- Talent Policies