Job Description

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

Your roles and responsibilities as a HR Partner will be as follows:

• Partnering with the business and all stakeholders across functions.

• Partner with business units to establish goals for all employees and ensure periodic review of performance against established goals.

• Drive the performance appraisal process for assigned business units, ensuring fairness and transparency.

• Drive Talent Management & employee retention strategies for assigned business units, including promotions & succession planning.

• Lead critical organization wide change initiatives.

• Serve as a Talent Development advisor to business and global HR stakeholders.

• Combine external insights and internal focus areas to diagnose priority areas, design interventions and deploy cutting edge initiatives to enable key shifts for the org

• Deploy Talent Reviews in partnership with BU HR

• Ensure governance on Succession Management and partner with internal teams on Successor Development.

• Design (and improve) Talent processes & policies based on org need and feedback

• Reinforce Career Development through employee/leader interventions

Role Location: Bangalore India (Swiss Re Global Service Delivery Centre)
Designation: Vice President HR, reporting India Head HR