Global Benefits Lead: Data-Driven, End-to-End Programs

Kraken; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking an experienced Benefits Lead to own our global benefits programme across all countries we employ in. You’ll manage brokers and vendors, ensure compliance, and translate data into the right benefits mix that supports retention and hiring.

You’ll collaborate with People Ops, shape the benefits roadmap, and build a compelling business case to invest in wellness, pensions, insurance and local perks.

Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years experience running employee benefits, ideally across more than one country.
• A good grasp of how benefits work in practice: pensions, risk and health cover, and the tax and compliance basics that sit behind them.
• Comfort managing vendors and renewals, and a track record of getting good value.
• Strong organisation. You keep lots of moving parts on track without dropping things.
• Confidence with data and spreadsheets, and good judgement about what the numbers mean.
• A self-starter mindset. You're happy owning your area without a big team around you.
• Build the business case for what we invest in benefits, and show the return: what it costs, what people actually use and value, and what it does for retention and hiring.
• Bring the numbers and the story together so leadership can make confident calls on benefits spend, and so we can explain to our people why we've invested where we have.
• Track how our benefits are landing, be honest about what isn't working, and make the case to shift the money to what does.

Responsibilities

• Partner with in country People Ops to help manage our benefits programmes day to day across our employing countries, including pensions, insurances, health and wellbeing, leave and any local perks.
• Manage brokers, providers and renewals. Push for better value and a better experience for our people, and keep a close eye on cost.
• Track legislation changes & keep our benefits compliant in every country we operate in, and flag anything that needs a decision early.
• Help managers understand what we offer and why, so they can talk to their teams with confidence.
• Use data to spot what people actually use and value, and bring ideas for what we should add, change or drop.
• Take the lead on the day-to-day of our global benefits review: gather data on what we offer in each country, benchmark it against the market, and help shape recommendations.
• Support benefits as we grow into new markets, and help scope new benefits from idea to launch.
• Keep our benefits records, systems and vendor data clean, accurate and secure.
• Partner with the local People Ops team to manage our benefits platforms and push it to be genuinely good.

Skills

Benefits management

Cross-country experience

Vendor management

Data analysis

Excel skills

Project ownership

Business case

Tools

HRIS

Payroll systems

Job description

Kraken is seeking an experienced Benefits Lead to own our global benefits programme across all countries we employ in. You’ll manage brokers and vendors, ensure compliance, and translate data into the right benefits mix that supports retention and hiring.

You’ll collaborate with People Ops, shape the benefits roadmap, and build a compelling business case to invest in wellness, pensions, insurance and local perks.