VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BENEFITS

(USA - Remote/Hybrid)

The Opportunity

The Vice President, Global Benefits is a high-impact leadership role responsible for the strategic vision, financial optimization, and operational delivery of a comprehensive global benefits portfolio. Managing an annual spend exceeding $200M in 60+ countries, this leader will oversee health and welfare, retirement, wellbeing programs and benefits administration for a diverse, international workforce.

Reporting to SVP, Global Head of Total Rewards, the successful candidate will lead a multi-year global transformation of the benefits operating model—transitioning from a localized, approach to a centralized, scalable framework. This role requires a sophisticated blend of financial acumen, executive-level storytelling, and the ability to drive operational excellence in a high-growth, complex multi-national environment.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Strategic Global Leadership & Governance

• Global Operating Model Transformation: Lead the end-to-end execution of a multi-year, three-phase strategic roadmap to transition the organization from a regional approach to a centralized, high-performance global delivery model that scales with business growth.

• Total Rewards Integration: Align the global benefits strategy with the broader Total Rewards philosophy to ensure market competitiveness and support for the company’s high-growth talent needs.

• Global Governance: Establish a global governance committee with oversight of benefit design, compliance across 60+ countries.

2. Financial Stewardship & Data Analytics

• Strategic ROI: Drive a long-term financial strategy to optimize spend, targeting significant savings through global benefit pooling, strategic renewals, and centralized financial tracking.

• Executive & Board Communication: Act as a key advisor to the C-Suite, developing data-driven analytics, rewards recommendations, and high-impact slide decks for executive decision-making.

• Risk Mitigation: Proactively manage global healthcare inflation and regulatory risks through sophisticated modeling and vendor management.

3. Operational Transformation & Scalability

• Service Excellence: Oversee the build-out of the global benefits administration team to improve service delivery and global operational efficiency.

• Digital Transformation: Evaluate and implement global third-party administration technology to move toward automated data flows and enhanced reporting capabilities.

4. Global Program Design & Wellbeing

• Talent Attraction: Ensure benefit offerings are competitive for a diverse workforce, from frontline operations to corporate leadership, particularly in high-growth international markets.

• Mental Health & Support: Advance the global wellbeing agenda, addressing critical needs for mental health support and work-life balance through innovative program design.

• Communication: Drive a "One-Company" communication strategy that empowers employees to make informed benefit choices and enhances the employer value proposition.

5. Team Leadership & Global Management

• Leadership: Provide direct management and mentorship to a global team of professionals across Strategy, Design, and Benefits Administration.

• Regional Oversight: Provide leadership to regional leads in North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC, ensuring high performance and local compliance.

The Ideal Candidate Characteristics & Credentials

• Experience: 15+ years of progressive HR/Total Rewards leadership experience, with at least 5-7 years in a global benefits leadership role for (30k+ employees).

• Transformation Expertise: Proven track record of leading large-scale operating model transformations or HR globalizations in a complex, multi-national environment.

• Financial Acumen: Deep expertise in global benefit pooling, captive arrangements, and sophisticated cost-projection modeling.

• Executive Presence: Exceptional ability to synthesize complex financial and benefits data into compelling narratives for the C-Suite and Board of Directors.

• Global Perspective: Strong cultural competency and experience navigating the regulatory and benefit landscapes across multiple countries.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, or Finance; MBA or relevant professional certifications (e.g., CEBS) preferred.

Category: Human Resources