Responsibilities include interfacing with stakeholders such as HR Business Partners (HRBPs), HR Operations/Shared Services, Finance, Global Mobility, Procurement, external Benefits Brokers, Staffing/Recruiting and Legal groups or departments, but will not be limited to the following:
1. Managing system set up and accuracy for benefits enrolment for all entities in responsibility, through use of the benefits broker and HRIS enrolment tools and/or online enrolment tools from insurance providers and utilizing reports from HRIS.
2. Managing liaison between HRBPs and insurance providers/benefits broker and to ensure quality and benefits presentation completeness. Validating the accuracy and consistency of all benefits materials including benefit plan documents, benefit guides, all associated materials posted on company intranet, employee handbooks and employment contracts.
3. Addressing employee benefit inquiries from HRBPs by utilizing research and/or plan docs, and preparing recommendation for International Benefits departmental review for ultimately presenting to HRBP and local management.
4. Collaborate with International Benefits, Operations and HRIS programmers to build benefits modules, interfaces to other systems and providing requirements for changes. Communicating and validating system changes with HRBPs and payroll groups.
5. Ensuring with local brokers, if applicable, that all benefit plan contracts and service agreements are obtained, reviewed, approved and implemented; identifying and coordinating with procurement, internal and/or external legal resources when applicable.
6. Preparing and presenting statistical and market data to support our rewards strategy to prove significance and positive impact on benefits, and ensuring competiveness.
7. Supporting the on-boarding and termination processes by validating, in coordination with brokers and /or HRBPs, the timelines, enrollment materials and processes for efficiencyt and support the local process. May include ensuring automation of systems interfaces is optimized.
8. Maintaining a comprehensive Benefits calendar to ensure adherence to upcoming deadlines and that all necessary operations are identified, accounted for and successfully managed.
9. Managing quarterly or semi-annual benefits meetings with your international affiliates group to summarize and review key information for both informational and strategic purposes (rewards strategy) and report key findings to the international benefits group.
10. Identifying and completing relevant surveys for comparative purposes to ensure competitive benefits and programs offered, including obtaining annual benefits costs from payroll and accounting.
11. Identifying and coordinating networking and educational opportunities for yourself to ensure a competitive position and awareness of best practices and emerging trends and upcoming initiatives.
12. Other related responsibilities as assigned by the International Benefits group.

Qualifications
Prerequisites:
Bachelor’s Degree or similar required. Multi-country experience in benefits is required, or other applicable operational experience in payroll or HR Information System (HRIS).

Skills/Knowledge Required:
- Organizational and planning skills, including demonstrated ability to: handle multiple tasks simultaneously and set goals and enforce deadlines while maintaining flexibility to reassess and prioritize goals, and recognizing when to escalate.
- Excellent analytical, reasoning and problem solving skills.
- Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven teamwork track record is a must: ability to work in groups with assigned responsibilities to achieve desired results.
- In-depth self starter with the ability to work independently to resolve issues and develop proposals and/or presentations. Responsibilities may range from administrative or tactical nature to those that support strategic direction and department goals.
- Computer literacy, including all Microsoft Office, PeopleSoft or similar, and general knowledge of data file transfers.
- High standard of customer service.
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.