Global Category Manager, Employee Benefits

Overview

In this role you will shape and lead the global Employee Benefits category, partnering with HR and Total Rewards to deliver value across healthcare, wellbeing, retirement, and related services. You will negotiate with strategic suppliers, influence senior leaders, and drive sustainable programmes that enhance employee experience while balancing affordability and risk. You will use market insights and data-driven analysis to inform category strategy and transformation initiatives. This opportunity offers broad cross-functional impact across a global enterprise and significant visibility with senior stakeholders.

Pay / Benefits

• generous annual bonus and pension schemes
• Save As You Earn share options
• hybrid working model
• private health and dental plans
• paid holidays and volunteering hours
• mentorship

Responsibilities

• Lead the global Employee Benefits category strategy across healthcare, wellbeing, retirement, benefits administration, consulting, and related Total Rewards services
• Partner with HR, Total Rewards and key stakeholders to balance employee experience, affordability, compliance, risk, and innovation
• Shape and deliver long-term category strategies and drive complex supplier negotiations
• Build and manage strong supplier relationships to create measurable business value
• Leverage market insights and emerging technologies to optimise programmes and support transformation
• Collaborate across a diverse international stakeholder network and influence senior leaders
• Support strategic transformation and broaden procurement value delivery

Key requirements

• Significant experience managing Employee Benefits, Total Rewards, HR Services or related categories within a global organisation
• Proven track record of developing and executing category strategies that deliver measurable value
• Experience leading complex negotiations and managing strategic supplier relationships at regional or global scale
• Ability to influence senior leaders, use market intelligence and data-driven insights to support decisions

• relationship building
• influencing senior stakeholders
• strategic thinking
• category strategy development
• supplier relationship management
• negotiations

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