Senior Manager, Benefits - EMEA and Latin America

Stryker; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 88,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Stryker Corporation in Ireland is seeking a Senior Manager, Benefits for EMEA and LATAM to provide strategic leadership for global benefits programs, vendor management, and renewal cycles. You will partner with HR, Finance, Legal and procurement to optimize cost, risk and employee experience.

This role requires 10+ years in benefits with global exposure, strong collaboration, and ability to drive changes across multiple regions.

Qualifications

• Relevant Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years relevant work experience.
• 5+ years experience managing global benefits / vendor management.

Responsibilities

• Lead global benefits management and regional renewal cycles with cross-functional teams.
• Oversee benefits design, funding strategies, and vendor management to optimize cost and risk.
• Partner with HR, Payroll, Finance, Legal and Procurement to execute cost-effective, compliant programs.
• Ensure consistency across geographies and manage communications with stakeholders.

Skills

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Multi-tasking

Global benefits management

Vendor management

HR operations liaison

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Work Flexibility: Remote or Hybrid or Onsite Senior Manager, Benefits - EMEA and Latin America Permanent position.

At Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World's Best Workplaces!

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

Pay Ranges

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

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.

Travel Percentage: 10%

Work Flexibility

Remote - Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.

Field-based - You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based.

Onsite - Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.

Hybrid - You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.