DEIB Manager - Pune, India - Persistent Systems

Description

About Position

We have an exciting opportunity for a DE&I change agent who can apply data, business acumen, and empathy to identify opportunities for a more just workforce, values high performance cultures, understands employee experience strategy, and powerfully persists to make impact at the individual and organizational level.

Role: DEIB Specialist

Location: Pune

Experience: 6 to 9 years

Job Type: FTE

What you'll do

• We seek an experienced professional with experience driving DE&I strategies and programs in an expansive and impactful way.
• The DE&I Specialist will work as a critical change agent in the region, with special focus on increased representation, improved retention of underrepresented employees (e.g., women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ, etc.) and more visible inclusive behaviors within our India region.
• The right candidate will be critical to driving the region's diversity, equity and inclusion progress commitments and will help Persistent make impact by working closely with regional leadership, the global DEI Council, vendors and colleagues throughout Human Resources, Enterprise, and the region.
• They must identify, develop, and activate partnerships, programs and change to help Persistent remain a regional employee of choice and great place to work for an increasingly diverse workforce.

Expertise you'll bring

• 6+ years of relevant work experience in DEI
• experience designing company policies
• knowledge of labor and human rights legislation
• ideal candidate should be attentive to detail and have excellent analytical skills
• should have excellent written and verbal communication skills, should be to work effectively with colleagues of varying seniorities both within and outside their own team.
• should have a bachelor's or a master's degree with six to twelve years of comparable experience, with at least five years in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• candidates should be willing to take on challenging, high-impact projects and lead programs from strategy to execution while advising senior leaders.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Our company fosters a values-driven and people-centric work environment that enables our employees to:

• growth, both professionally and personally
• the world in powerful, positive ways, using the latest technologies
• collaborative innovation, with diversity and work-life wellbeing at the core
• global opportunities to work and learn with the industry's best

Let's unleash your full potential at Persistent

"Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind."