Senior Manager, Benefits

Senior Benefits Manager

This role sits within People & Places org. and offers the opportunity to work closely with talented, mission driven colleagues while partnering with leaders across the business to solve meaningful challenges.

You will lead a global team of three Benefits Specialists in enhancing Benefits functional capabilities, principles, and playbooks to tackle complex business challenges and opportunities.

In this role, you will:

• Act as a credible resource for knowledge of Benefits and internal policies and procedures
• Manage the design, implementation and administration efforts of Benefits to produce solutions and facilitate improved performance
• Integrate timelines and milestones across projects, identifying areas of synergy or dependency
• Identify strategic issues and raise questions to help customers explore and understand their wider business challenges
• Use your thorough understanding of current business processes and challenges to recommend and match solutions to meet business needs
• Evaluate the progress of projects and make adjustments (e.g. to task order or timeline)
• Create and monitor metrics on performance across multiple teams and ensure efficient execution and effective delivery of work
• Assist others in keeping current on laws, controls and regulatory requirements framework and structure
• Ensure organizational adherence to legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., reporting mandates, compliance requirements) when reviewing other's work
• Leverage your knowledge of internal and external market control environments to determine internal controls necessary to properly mitigate standard legal and regulatory risks
• Resolve complex and non routine benefit issues, managing cases from beginning to end
• Serve as an expert on how products/services are applied across a particular industry; recommend the best options for the business
• Recognize staff potential and guide employees in developing skills by recommending appropriate training and sources of information
• Create an environment for team effectiveness, where strengths are known and built upon and learning is shared to build capacity

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's in a Human Resources field or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of working experience in a Human Resources field
• 3+ years of People Management experience
• Experience working in an international business across complex regions
• Understanding of tax, compliance and legal requirements
• Strong grasp of benefit risk models
• Strong working knowledge and experience of pension and benefits regulations
• Excellent stakeholder management and internal communication skills
• Vendor Management skills - RFPs, Annual Renewals, SLAs, Account Management, etc.
• Experience leading Total Rewards as part of the Employee Value Proposition
• Experience with M&A impacts on compensation and benefits (including acquisition, merger and disposal)

Location: London (flexible work model requires employees to be in office at least three days a week).

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