Manager, Performance and Rewards

Build a healthier and more sustainable future for everyone. At AIA, your skills, perspective and ideas can contribute to our Purpose of helping millions of people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. Across our diverse markets, you will take on meaningful challenges, collaborate with talented colleagues and help turn ideas into positive outcomes for our customers and communities. Join us to shape what comes next, grow through new experiences and extend your impact across Asia. About the Role The role is accountable for end to end delivery, governance, and continuous improvement of the Company’s rewards and performance management lifecycle. This includes ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant execution of annual and off cycle performance and rewards processes, providing data driven compensation intelligence, and upholding internal equity, external competitiveness, and Group standards. The role serves as a subject matter expert in HR policy, compensation, benefits and performance management, supporting leadership decision making through robust analytics, job evaluation, and advisory support, while maintaining high standards of data quality, system integrity, audit readiness, and stakeholder service. It also contributes to longer term workforce and reward sustainability through disciplined budgeting, governance, and capability uplift across HR. The role is also required to support accurate, compliant, and timely employee benefits administration. The role provides expert advisory support to employees and stakeholders, drives continuous improvement through process optimization and AI-enabled solutions, and ensures strong governance through audit support, regulatory compliance, effective benefits communication, and reliable data provision for budgeting and workforce planning. • Drive the end-to-end TCR and PDD cycle annually (with utmost priority in ensuring data correctness and completeness and process completion in a timely manner in alignment to Group Performance and Rewards (GPR) guided timelines). • Drive and manage off-cycle salary adjustments and promotions exercises where applicable. Providing advisory support on best practices and governance in accordance with GPR principles/standards/policies. • Drive and complete internal equity analysis (as and when needed) and end-to-end external benchmarking exercises to provide compensation and benefits, intelligence and analytics to stakeholders (HRBP and HODs) where required to ensure pay and benefits competitiveness across the Company. • Perform Job Evaluation as needed in accordance with existing/new operating model of the Department/Company, while ensuring compliance with Group Job Architecture and Career framework while driving future-aligned job profiles to enable clear career pathways and support capability development • Administer salary components, bonuses, incentives, and short/long-term benefits (including but not limited to Workday inputs, setup, configuration, and uploads in accordance to policies, in collaboration with HRIS. • Administer ongoing employee benefits plans and provide policies interpretation/clarification where required. • Provide expert advisory support on employee benefits to employees and stakeholders (HRBP, People Managers) where required. This includes handling HR Case raised on Workday. • Drive Benefits Administration process improvement through proactive AI use case and change management where there is gap identified, in collaboration with HRIS team. • Increase Employee benefits visibility through physical or virtual sharing and events in collaborations with HRIS and Communications team. • Serve as functional expert in handling employee queries related to compensation and benefits and HR policies. • Monitor compensation and benefits related data quality and work with relevant HRIS / stakeholders to update or correct any discrepancies. • Support internal/external HR audits where applicable. • Drive HR and support Company-wide budgeting process with provision of HR related budget assumptions based on best practices and existing HR analytics. • Support HR Team competency uplift through quarterly knowledge-sharing (subject matter, dependencies upstream/downstream) • Support other HR cross-functional projects as needed Job Requirements: • Education – Bachelors Degree in any field (Human Resources Preferred) • Experience – minimum 5- 8 years of experience in Compensation and benefits and Benefits Administration • Technology – experience with Workday and Success Factor would be preferred. Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. You must provide all requested information, including Personal Data, to be considered for this career opportunity. Failure to provide such information may influence the processing and outcome of your application. You are responsible for ensuring that the information you submit is accurate and up-to-date.