Senior Manager, EMEA Benefit Operations

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Position Purpose

The EMEA Benefits Operations Senior Manager plays a pivotal role in overseeing and managing the delivery of a diverse range of benefits across the EMEA region.

This position is essential for providing leadership in benefit operations with their team, instilling a continuous improvement mindset, and having an excellent project management skillset.

The role will also have a focus on data-driven analytics, leveraging data insights and metrics to identify opportunities for process streamlining and automation.

This position requires fostering effective stakeholder management and communication skills to build relationships with cross-functional teams both regionally and globally, ensuring excellent service for our EMEA customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise to the team by providing clear prioritization, assigning tasks and responsibilities, and monitoring outcomes.
• Focus on data metrics to ensure the team delivers on service level agreements and analyze trends that can support opportunities for automation.
• Lead and collaborate on projects to ensure successful outcomes for the region, including open enrollments and country, regional, and global initiatives.
• Proactivity looks for opportunities for process improvements and automation in our benefit delivery to our customers.
• Accountable for robust compliance controls in the region's benefit processes that will support audits and compliance requests.
• Collaborate with the Benefit Centre of Expertise and Service Delivery Management on operationalizing benefit offerings in the region to reduce manual actions and streamlining processes.
• Oversee regional escalations, ensuring stakeholders are kept informed of issues and incidents, and support their Senior Specialist in the resolution.
• Manage the region's knowledge documents to ensure the team is updating documentation and providing further insight on benefit processes.
• Establish and uphold high-quality standards in benefit operations to ensure exceptional service for our EMEA customers
  
  

Required Skills

• Benefit expertise within health, welfare, and retirement programs
• Leadership of a regional team
• Collaboration and influence with multiple stakeholders regionally and globally
• Project Management
• Data-Driven & Analytical Skills
• Vendor Management
• Customer-focused
• Communication and presentation skills in simplifying complex benefit topics
  
  

Ideal Candidates Would Also Have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience working with Workday, ServiceNow and Benefits Enrollment Platform (Mercer Darwin or other)
• Language Requirement - English (other language is a plus)
  
  

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