Senior Benefits & Wellbeing Transformation Leader

FIS; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

FIS seeks a Senior Manager, Benefits and Wellbeing to lead prioritized benefits transformation across markets. You will drive Workday optimization, M&A integrations, and vendor transitions, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely, scalable results and improved employee experience.

You will manage complex programs, balance timelines and risks, and deliver post-implementation learning to drive future improvements in benefits programs and operations.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant and applicable experience. Future-proofing mindset: shape products, workflows and system connectivity so benefits activity can scale and adapt over time.
• Product and workflow optimization, including simplification of benefit processes, employee experience and scalable ways of working.
• Technology-enabled design thinking, including Workday Benefits, HR systems, data, AI tools, automation and digital employee journeys.
• System connectivity mindset: connect product design, platforms, data flows, vendor processes and BAU readiness.
• M&A integration and harmonization, including side-by-side comparisons, transition planning and future-state benefit design.
• Stakeholder influence across Benefits, Transformation, Ops, Finance, Legal, Tax, Comms, ER, brokers and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of prioritized Benefits transformation and optimization projects, turning approved strategy / design into executable plans across markets and teams.
• Own Benefits M&A integration activity end to end, including data collation, side-by-side comparisons using Origin, integration planning, benefit harmonization and transition into Ops for key projects.
• Deliver optimization projects for Benefits products, working with the go-to-market team to shape requirements, implementation approach, employee impact and launch readiness.
• Manage WAVE activity that sits outside BAU, ensuring non-standard work is scoped, tracked, resourced and handed over appropriately once stabilized.
• Lead Workday Benefits optimization projects, including configuration requirements, process improvements, testing coordination and readiness for operational use.
• Implement benefit changes, vendor transitions (including Wellhub for example roll out and EAP RFP) and cross-market harmonization activity, managing timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks and outcomes.
• Coordinate with Ops teams to confirm delivery capacity for new projects, requirement forms with portfolio analyst for Systems and Ops, handover points and escalation routes where operational blockers impact delivery.
• Package transformation work into structured execution bundles, ensuring Finance, Legal, Tax, Comms, ER, brokers, vendors and local teams are engaged at the right point post design and strategic design decisions.
• Track post-implementation outcomes and lessons learned so optimization activity improves future delivery, employee experience and operational scalability.

Skills

Benefits optimization

Workday Benefits

Data integration

M&A integration

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

FIS seeks a Senior Manager, Benefits and Wellbeing to lead prioritized benefits transformation across markets. You will drive Workday optimization, M&A integrations, and vendor transitions, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely, scalable results and improved employee experience.

You will manage complex programs, balance timelines and risks, and deliver post-implementation learning to drive future improvements in benefits programs and operations.