Associate Director / Sr. Manager, Recognition & Rewards

FIND YOUR 'BETTER' AT AIA

We don’t simply believe in being ‘The Best’. We believe in better - because there’s no limit to how far ‘better’ can take us.

We believe in empowering every one of our people to find their 'better' - in the work they do, the career they build, the life they live and the difference they make. So that together we can support even more people - including our own - to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

If you believe in better, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Role

Designs, governs, and optimizes total rewards framework — spanning Fixed Pay, Short-Term Incentives (STI), and Long-Term Incentives (LTI). This role ensures rewards programs are business-aligned, market-competitive, talent-centric, and fully compliant — directly enabling strategic hiring, retention of critical talent, performance acceleration, and sustainable shareholder value creation.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work as Rewards COE to develop and manage rewards strategy

• Total compensation review planning and execution, including TCR, mid-year and off-cycle review.

• Support business channels in incentive plans co-design, review, special adjustment framework, delivering data-backed recommendations to senior leadership; ensure short term incentive execution complies with local labor law, tax regulations and internal governance standards

• Develop and maintain differentiated reward solutions for key areas: specific compensation or incentive plans for business needs, talents development programs, separation scenarios, etc.  

• Responsible for policies, procedures, guidelines and rules draft, review and revision in the subject matters

• Data analysis in the subject matters

• Responsible for assigned R&R projects from planning, designing to implementation

• Team work to support the projects of the team, and may work as backfill upon personnel shortage in the team

• Empower HRBPs and line managers through consultative guidance, training sessions, and standardized playbooks — elevating compensation decision-making capability and consistency

• The role and responsibilities will be adjusted based on rotation arrangement among the team

• Key Performance Indicators: Timely execution of  assigned work and tasks; Effective working relationship with HR, finance, business department, project managers and related user departments; Champion governance, equity, efficiency and effectiveness of reward and benefits related policies, practices, procedures and guidelines

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Bachelor degree or above degree in business administration, HR management, or related field.

• At least 5 year’ relevant managerial experience in sizable multi-national corporations HR Department with specialization in HRBP and C&B area.

• Expert knowledge of HR practices to have a profound impact on the success of internal client groups.

• Must maintain base knowledge of state, local and country labor laws regarding employment issues and related matters

• Statistical knowledge and analytic skills, wage and salary survey experience

• Good command in both written and oral English. 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with diverse people.

• Be ability to work independently under tight deadlines.

• Strategic thinking, Business acumen, Change Leadership, Planning & Organizing, Professional Credibility, Influencing others

• Self-motivated, Creative thinking, Attention to detail, Flexibility, Mature, Work under pressure, Team player

Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

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