Global Benefits and Well-being Lead

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We’re inviting passionate, forward-thinking individuals to join our Global Performance & Rewards team—a unique and exciting opportunity to grow your career while making a real impact on our newly unified organization.

With a global mindset and a bold ambition to be a catalyst for growth, innovation, and transformation, we’re empowering our people—and our business—to reach their full potential. Through strategic performance & development, meaningful recognition, and impactful rewards, we’re creating an environment where excellence is nurtured, engagement thrives, and success is shared across borders.

We believe some of the most impactful change comes from within.  That’s why we’re excited to invite internal talent to step into this opportunity – because we know the strength of our organization lies in incredible people who are already part of it.  

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The Global Benefits and Well-being Lead will provide oversight and value realization for our global benefits and well-being strategy.  In alignment with the performance & rewards philosophy and strategy, this individual will set the global guidelines, frameworks, and standards for benefits plan design to enable consistency, alignment, and impact across geographies.  Working closely with country-level Total Rewards (TR) leaders, this individual will ensure that all local programs are aligned with our global philosophy and contribute to our goal of being a great place to work, while also enabling us to evaluate effectiveness, value, and ROI from a global perspective.

Key Responsibilities:

• Global Governance & Strategic Alignment
  • Serve as the global steward to ensure benefits programs, though designed and implemented locally, enable an inclusive culture and are aligned with a unified vision to support our broader employer value proposition.
  • Partner with country Total Rewards Partners to promote consistent standards and best practices that balance local compliance and needs with global cohesion.
• Oversight & ROI Tracking
  • Establish global frameworks for measuring the effectiveness, employee impact, and return on investment of benefits and well-being programs.
  • Collect, analyze, and synthesize data provided by country TR leaders into holistic insights for senior leadership.
  • Monitor overall global benefits spend to ensure alignment with business objectives and value delivery.
• Vendor Strategy & Global Partnerships
  • Manage and/or track spend for global relationship management of enterprise-level vendors (e.g., Employee Assistance Programs, insurance pooling, well-being platforms).
  • Work in close partnership with Total Rewards COE team members, who will execute and manage in-country implementation.
• Mergers & Acquisitions Support
  • Coordinate with country TR teams and global Total Rewards COE members to ensure benefits and well-being considerations are addressed during M&A due diligence and integration activities.
  • Guide alignment of acquired entities’ programs with global strategy and standards.
• Well-being Leadership
  • Champion a global well-being strategy that enhances employee engagement and supports a healthy, productive workforce, enabling us to be a great place to work.
  • Provide strategic direction and global frameworks to help local teams build effective, culturally relevant well-being programs.

Qualifications:

• 10 years experience in global Total Rewards or Benefits roles, with expertise in strategic oversight or governance.
• Knowledge of global benefits trends, regulatory environments, and program evaluation.
• Experience managing vendor relationships and global benefits infrastructure.
• Demonstrated success in building cross-functional, cross-regional alignment without direct control.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Experience in M&A support related to benefits is strongly preferred.

Please note: Regardless of your location, this role requires alignment with Eastern Time (ET) business hours. We value flexibility and global collaboration, but successful candidates must be prepared to work during ET hours to ensure effective communication and team synergy.

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