Service Delivery Manager - Payroll, Compensation & Benefits and Talent Management

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The Service Delivery Manager (Payroll, Compensation & Benefits and Talent Management) is accountable for the end-to-end operational delivery, governance, integration, and continuous improvement of payroll, rewards, and talent-management services delivered through internal teams and external service providers. The role ensures accurate and timely payroll, effective compensation and benefits administration, and reliable execution of performance, talent-review, and succession processes. 

Operating as a senior individual contributor, this role partners with Payroll, Compensation & Benefits, Talent Management, HR Business Partners, Finance, Legal, Tax, HRIS, and external providers to ensure service excellence, strong controls, regulatory compliance, process standardization, and an effective employee and manager experience. 

Your Impact: 

• End-to-End Service Ownership: Own service delivery for Payroll, Compensation & Benefits, and Talent Management processes within the assigned global scope. Ensure services meet agreed quality, timeliness, and employee experience standards. Maintain clear accountability across retained and outsourced activities. 

• Vendor & Platform Management: Manage relationships with payroll providers, benefits administrators, compensation-service partners, talent-platform providers, and other external vendors. Monitor vendor performance against SLAs and contractual commitments. Support governance of payroll, compensation, benefits, performance, succession, and talent technology platforms and their operational processes. 

• Payroll, Rewards and Talent Operational Excellence: Oversee payroll calendars and controls, compensation and incentive-cycle administration, benefits operations, performance cycles, talent reviews, succession planning, and associated employee and manager support. Ensure operational readiness for payroll cutoffs, year-end activities, annual compensation and benefits events, performance cycles, and talent-review processes. Drive standardization and process harmonization globally. 

• Governance, Risk & Compliance: Ensure compliance with payroll, tax, social-security, employment, compensation, benefits, data-privacy, and internal-control requirements. Manage risks, escalations, and corrective action plans. Monitor process adherence and audit readiness. 

• Continuous Improvement & Transformation: Identify automation and digitalization opportunities. Optimize employee and manager experience within payroll, rewards, performance, succession, and talent systems. Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the portfolio. 

• Change & Process Management:  Support implementation of payroll changes, compensation and benefits programs, and talent-management solutions. Maintain process documentation and operating procedures. Coordinate change requests and release activities. 

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Payroll, Compensation & Benefits, Talent Management, HRBP, Finance, Legal, Tax, HRIS, and Procurement teams. Provide operational insights and recommendations to support business objectives. Coordinate cross-functional dependencies impacting talent programs. 

Your Experience and Qualification: 

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Finance, Accounting, Organizational Development, or related field 

• 5-8 years of relevant experience in Payroll, Compensation & Benefits, Talent Management, HR Shared Services, or outsourced service delivery 

• Experience supporting payroll, compensation, benefits, performance, succession, and talent-management platforms 

• Knowledge of payroll controls, compensation and benefits administration, performance management, talent reviews, and succession planning 

• Global Payroll operations experience preferred 

Your Benefits:  

India: 

• GLOBAL DIVERSITY – Diversity means many things to us, different brands, cultures, nationalities, genders, generations – even variety in our roles. You make us unique!  

• ENTERPRISING SPIRIT- Every role adds value. We're committed to helping you develop and grow to realize your potential.  

• POSITIVE IMPACT – Make it personal and help us feed the world.  

• INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES - You can combine your love for technology with manufacturing excellence – and work alongside teams of people worldwide who share your enthusiasm.  

• MAKE THE MOST OF YOU – Benefits include health care and wellness plans and flexible and virtual work options. 

Hungary: 

• Attractive, fair remuneration including participation in our bonus scheme and reimbursement of commuting expenses  

• Cafeteria system with additional elements you can pick from    
  Balance of work, family, and free time due to flexible working opportunity and the possibility of hybrid/remote work including home office monetary allowance   

• Private health insurance, dental services, and compensation for the purchase of computer monitor glasses  

• Employee Assistance Program including professional counselling, webinars, sports challenges, and newsletters  

• Development opportunities including monthly trainings held by the local training team and teacher guided language classes   

Your Workplace: 

India 

This role follows AGCO’s onsite work model, with employees primarily working from an AGCO location for a minimum of 3 days per week to support collaboration and teamwork.