Benefits Analyst

Job description

What will you do:

• 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