Responsible for benefit plans, programs, and portfolios across multiple geographies, with a particular focus on APAC
Design, recommend, and implement regional and country-specific benefits programs and portfolios, consistent with Red Hats overall rewards philosophy and People strategy through collaboration and consultation with key stakeholders, partners, and business leadership
Drive the capture of local and regional requirements for benefit program enhancements and new programs through collaboration with People team colleagues and business leadership
Analyze market data, statutory requirements, and benchmarks of country-specific benefits programs to provide insightful competitive and cost analysis to make program design recommendations and enable implementations
Remain up to date on local and regional legislative changes, educate key stakeholders on changes, and recommend program changes accordingly
Collaborate and provide subject matter expertise to internal partners, associates, and management on a variety of benefit matters in support of benefit programs
Escalation point of contact for associate queries
Interface with the Talent Acquisition team to provide enablement on benefit program changes and to review competitive reward data coming from the external candidate market
Partner with our People Service Delivery team to ensure delivery processes are efficient and scalable
Manage relationships with third-party benefit plan brokers, providers, and external vendors, including renewal and negotiation of benefits contracts and cost management
Support benefits-related merger and acquisition (M&A), and geographical expansion efforts, such as due diligence, benchmarking, new program design, integration, and post-integration
What will you bring:
Experience in international benefits and a strong working knowledge of benefits programs for multiple countries or regions
Experience designing, implementing, managing, and delivering benefits programs at scale for a growing organization, across multiple geographies is essential
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate with both empathy and clarity across the organization
Outstanding attention to detail is required
Ability to work both independently with minimal direction and collaboratively across multiple functions
Effective at influencing across virtual/cross-group teams
Ability to forge close relationships, influence decisions, and gain trust as an advisor and consultant
Strong customer focus
Proven track record of aligning benefit programs with business strategy/objectives in a progressive environment while designing and delivering new programs for emerging markets
Understanding of payroll processes related to benefits administration
Ability to operate at a fast pace with clients and ever-changing business needs, remaining creative and innovative with team and clients
Knowledge of international labor and/or benefits legislation.
Innovation and creativity
Change management
Experience in working with or managing an outsourced benefits broker/vendor is preferred
Experience with multinational pooling is preferred
Bachelors degree in human resources, business, economics, or a related field is desirable
