Senior Manager, Benefits - EMEA and Latin America

Stryker; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Senior Manager, Benefits for EMEA and Latin America. The role offers remote or hybrid working arrangements and requires strategic leadership of regional benefits programs, renewals, funding strategies, and vendor management across multiple regions.

You will collaborate with global teams to manage cost, risk, and the employee experience while supporting mergers and acquisitions and ensuring consistent benefit programs across geographies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years relevant work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional benefits renewal, funding strategies, and vendor management.
• Partner with global and regional teams to optimize cost, risk, and employee experience.
• Oversee broker relationships and renewals across assigned regions.

Skills

Global benefits management

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Senior Manager, Benefits - EMEA And Latin America

Permanent position. Remote or hybrid working

Position Summary

This role provides strategic leadership for benefits across assigned regions, partnering with global and regional teams to deliver competitive, sustainable and employee-focused programs. You will lead benefits renewals, funding strategies and vendor management, support mergers and acquisitions, and collaborate with key stakeholders to manage cost, risk and the employee experience.

What you will do

• Partners with Senior Manager, Global Benefits Management (GBM) and regional HR teams to manage the Global Benefits Management (GBM) relationship with Stryker’s brokers, including driving regular strategic reviews and aligning broker services with the organization’s global benefits, financing, and acquisition objectives.
• Provides input into the pooling and captive strategies for assigned regional benefits to ensure appropriate cost management of offerings and support regional decision making.
• Serve as a strategic regional advisor on global risk management, insured benefit funding approaches, and market trends. Supports the evaluation of additional cost and plan design strategies, including captive arrangements
• Partners with Total Rewards Mergers and Acquisitions team to deliver on benefits strategy during and after deal closures. Partner with regional benefits teams to ensure effective transition and alignment of benefit programs.
• Oversee the regional renewal and enrollment timeline to ensure all requirements are completed by local deadlines
• Lead the development and execution of benefits renewal, remarketing, and funding strategies for assigned regions, exercising independent decision-making within the established governance framework and maintaining accountability for benefits spend, financial performance, market competitiveness, employee experience, and risk management.
• Drives strategic benefits initiatives by partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, including Human Resources, Payroll, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and HR Operations, to ensure effective planning, implementation, feasibility, risk and change management.
• Oversee contract negotiation and RFP process for assigned plans. Partner with legal and indirect procurement teams to approve contract terms.
• Ensure consistency across the geographies where applicable.
• Build relationships with all appropriate vendors as the main point of contact. Establish Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with all vendors and ensure they continue to meet defined performances measures.
• Develop the recommendation for annual revisions and enhancements.

What you will need

Required

• Relevant Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• A minimum of 10 years relevant work experience.

Preferred

• 10+ years of work experience required , with 5+ years of experience managing global benefits / vendor management.
• 5+ years business-facing HR, HR COE, HR Operations, or role-related experience preferred
• Experience managing a global broker relationship is preferred
• Strong collaboration skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively

Ireland Pay Ranges

• Ireland: €88,000 - €146,000 EUR Annual

United Kingdom Pay Ranges

• United Kingdom: £72,800 - £121,300 GBP Annual

At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package.

If you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process.

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.