Benefits Manager

Fifty5Blue; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Fifty5Blue, a global marketing insights firm, is seeking a hands-on Benefits Leader to shape and deliver the global benefits and pensions strategy across international locations. You will lead from the front, partner with HR, and drive meaningful change while managing vendor relationships.

You’ll refine programs to reflect legislation and market trends, ensure regulatory compliance, and craft engaging communications for a diverse global audience.

Qualifications

• Extensive international benefits experience with multi-country scope.
• Design and deliver global benefits programs and pensions across regions.
• Strong knowledge of global benefits legislation and market norms.
• Experience with benefits operations – vendor management, payroll links, HRIS, and process design.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the global benefits and pensions strategy across international locations.
• Refine benefits to reflect legislation, market trends, cost, and employee needs.
• Ensure all programs meet regulatory, compliance, and reporting requirements.
• Own relationships with brokers, insurers, and benefits providers worldwide.
• Participate in renewal cycles, negotiate terms, and manage service performance.
• Maintain vendor management, due diligence and risk assessment processes.
• Maintain documentation and audit readiness for programs.
• Manage benefits platforms and enable engaging communications for employees.
• Act as expert advisor for HR partners, managers, and employees.
• Adapt messaging for global audiences and diverse cultures.

Skills

Global benefits leadership

Vendor management

HR data analytics

Workday

Tools

HRIS

Workday

Job description

We help partners understand the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable better understanding of media audiences and their relationships with brands.

Are you a hands‑on, commercially minded benefits leader who thrives in complexity and genuinely loves getting into the detail and shaping the bigger picture?

If you want a role where you can build, refine, challenge, and elevate global benefits across multiple regions - this is it.

This is not a "sit back and oversee" position.

This is for someone who wants to lead from the front, drive meaningful change, and work closely with a global team to deliver high‑quality outcomes.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Participate together with Rewards and HR Operations in the global benefits and pensions strategy across all international locations.
• Continuously review and refine benefits to reflect legislation, market trends, cost, and employee needs.
• Ensure all global benefits programs meet regulatory, compliance, and reporting requirements.
• Own relationships with brokers, insurers, and benefits providers worldwide.
• Participate in renewal cycles, negotiate terms, and manage service performance.
• Maintain a structured vendor management approach, including due diligence and risk assessment.
• Maintain documentation and audit readiness for all international benefits programs.
• Manage benefits platforms
• Create engaging communications that help employees understand and maximise their benefits.
• Act as the expert advisor for HR business partners, managers, and employees.
• Adapt messaging for global audiences and diverse cultures.

What You Bring

• International benefits experience, ideally with significant multi‑country scope.
• Demonstrated success designing and delivering benefits and pension programs across the Globe.
• Strong technical knowledge of global benefits legislation and market norms.
• Experience with benefits operations — vendor management, payroll links, HRIS, and process design.
• Skilled in HR technology and data analytics; experience with automation or AI tools is an advantage (Workday preferred)

This Role Is Perfect For Someone Who Is

• Extensive experience in a benefits role, working in a global environment.
• A doer. Action‑oriented, pragmatic, and willing to get hands‑on.
• Comfortable navigating complexity, ambiguity, and changing priorities.
• Resilient, resourceful, and solutions‑focused.
• A strong communicator who can influence at all levels.
• Detail‑driven yet able to zoom out and think strategically.
• Collaborative, but also capable of taking full ownership and running with work independently.
• Passionate about delivering a great employee experience globally.
• Spanish or Portuguese is a plus

Country

United Kingdom

We pride ourselves on understanding people, and what makes us think and act the way we do.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society.