Manager, Benefits & Rewards Workday

The Coca-Cola Company; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Workday Benefits Platform Manager to enhance their HR technology landscape. This role involves collaborating with global teams to optimize the Benefits platform, ensuring it meets the needs of employees and managers. You'll drive adoption and continuous improvement while managing vendor relationships and providing subject matter expertise. Join a diverse and inclusive culture that values your voice and offers career growth opportunities. If you're passionate about HR technology and want to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Career growth and development

Diverse and inclusive culture

International experience

Access to educational platforms

Coaching and mentoring

Qualifications

• 5+ years in the Workday ecosystem with strong HR technology knowledge.
• Experience in business processes, analysis, and requirements gathering.
• Advanced Excel skills for data manipulation.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and consulting in Workday Payroll and Benefits.
• Gather and analyze business requirements across global teams.
• Maximize Workday adoption through training and communication.

Skills

Business Processes

Communication

Human Resources (HR) Technology

Microsoft Excel

Vendor Management

Workday Benefits

Workday Software

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Workday

Excel

Job description

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

May 2, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Position Overview:

We are seeking a dynamic Workday Benefits Platform Manager who will collaborate with Global People Function leaders, HR Operational teams, and external vendors to implement and optimize the Benefits platform. This role maximizes Coca-Cola’s investment by leveraging the platform’s capabilities, driving adoption, and championing continuous improvement to enhance business processes. Understanding Coca-Cola’s policies, you will bridge the gap between internal Payroll, Benefits, and Rewards teams and external vendors, ensuring the platform is designed and configured to meet our needs and implementing enhancements and new features.

Please note: This is not a Remote role and will require the successful candidate to be based in Dublin and follow a hybrid work schedule. This is an Individual Contributor role.

What You’ll Do for Us:

• Thought Leadership, Strategy and Consulting - be a thought leader in Workday Payroll, Benefits and Rewards and a consultant to Coca-Cola’s business teams and the Global People Function organization to find solutions for requirements, opportunities, and problems, and to deliver process and technology improvements.
• Understand the full spectrum of the HR technology domain including Workday, non-Workday solutions, external providers and integrations amongst the various components. Consider the upstream, downstream and cross domain impacts when making design decisions to ensure minimal business disruption.
• Conduct working sessions in large, global organization to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements for various functional areas.
• Understand the needs of the Rewards team to manage benefit plans, comp plans, enrollment, configuration and management and how these can be met with Workday.
• Manage vendor resource who will design, prototype, configure, test and deliver HR technology solutions based on the Workday platform and represent the “voice of the customer” - keeping the needs of employees, people managers and business leaders at the center of all Workday design and deployment decisions.
• Ensure vendor is demonstrating configurations through iterative development of prototypes to gain customer acceptance of the business processes.
• Provide subject matter expertise regarding key business process decisions related to industry and/or functional areas.
• Maximize Workday adoption by employees, managers and the Global People Function through on-going communications, training, social collaboration and marketing.
• Support Workday Operations by suggesting monitoring and recommending ways to better utilize Workday, proactively identify and create metrics to drive operational improvements and institute and enforce data and process standards across managed functional areas to ensure consistent and simple solutions.
• Actively participate in the Workday Community contributing expertise, requesting enhancements, sharing ideas, collaborating with other customers, and participating in user groups.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience in the Workday ecosystem
• 5+ years of experience in business processes including analysis and requirements gathering
• 3+ years of experience with Workday EIBs
• Advanced Excel user with data manipulationskills
• Preferably some experience with Global Workday Benefits implementations(nice to have)
• Workday Pro certified (nice to have)
• Knowledge of other Workday functions such as Core HCM, Compensation and Talent Development (nice to have)

What We Can DoForYou :

• Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable.
• International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.
• Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.
• Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.

Skills:

Business Processes, Communication, Human Resources (HR) Technology, Microsoft Excel, Vendor Management, Workday Benefits, Workday Software

Pay Range:

$116,000 - $138,000

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

15

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.