Global Benefits Manager

As Global Benefits Manager, you'll oversee benefits activity across IFS globally, helping ensure benefits are consistent, well-governed, commercially appropriate, and aligned to our defined Total Reward frameworks.

As part of your role you'll manage, guide and support the Benefits team, ensuring regional benefits activity is coordinated, visible and aligned to global standards. You'll maintain a clear, global view of benefits across countries, identifying inconsistencies, risks, gaps and opportunities for improvement, recommending practical actions for review and approval.

Across Europe, you'll work closely with local HR teams on benefit renewals, provider reviews, employee communications, benefit changes, and new benefit implementations, while local HR retains day-to-day benefits administration. You'll also manage the relationship with the global insurance brokers, using broker advice, market insight and renewal support to inform options, recommendations and governance discussions.

Other areas of responsibility will include:

• Coordination of global benefit renewals and provider reviews, partnering with brokers, vendors, regional Benefit Managers and local HR teams to prepare analysis, options and recommendations for accountable decision-makers.
• Supporting and maintaining benefits principles, governance standards and documentation so local and regional benefits activity is guided by clear, consistent frameworks.
• Working with regional Benefit Managers, local HR, Finance, Legal, Procurement and HR Operations to review benefits, costs, compliance, risk and operational impact within defined areas of responsibility.
• Helping ensure benefits communications and employee-facing information are clear, accurate, accessible and consistent, supporting employee self-service.
• Delivering defined benefits projects, including launches, implementations, vendor transitions, process improvements and governance enhancements within agreed scope, timelines and decision-making routes.
• Using market data, employee insight, utilisation trends and cost analysis to highlight risks, opportunities and practical recommendations for review and approval by accountable stakeholders.
• Providing benefits expertise, guidance and mentoring to HRBPs, regional Benefit Managers, local HR and the Global Benefits Coordinator on benefits governance, exceptions, escalations and communications.

Department: Human Resource Management
Function: Human Resources
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level