Red hat Benefits Analyst 

India, Karnataka 

288323454

What will you do:

• Responsible for benefit plans, programs, and portfolios across multiple geographies, with a particular focus on APAC

• Design, recommend, and implement regional and country-specific benefits programs and portfolios, consistent with Red Hat’s overall rewards philosophy and People strategy through collaboration and consultation with key stakeholders, partners, and business leadership

• Drive the capture of local and regional requirements for benefit program enhancements and new programs through collaboration with People team colleagues and business leadership

• Analyze market data, statutory requirements, and benchmarks of country-specific benefits programs to provide insightful competitive and cost analysis to make program design recommendations and enable implementations

• Remain up to date on local and regional legislative changes, educate key stakeholders on changes, and recommend program changes accordingly

• Collaborate and provide subject matter expertise to internal partners, associates, and management on a variety of benefit matters in support of benefit programs

• Escalation point of contact for associate queries

• Interface with the Talent Acquisition team to provide enablement on benefit program changes and to review competitive reward data coming from the external candidate market

• Partner with our People Service Delivery team to ensure delivery processes are efficient and scalable

• Manage relationships with third-party benefit plan brokers, providers, and external vendors, including renewal and negotiation of benefits contracts and cost management

• Support benefits-related merger and acquisition (M&A), and geographical expansion efforts, such as due diligence, benchmarking, new program design, integration, and post-integration

What will you bring:

• Experience in international benefits and a strong working knowledge of benefits programs for multiple countries or regions

• Experience designing, implementing, managing, and delivering benefits programs at scale for a growing organization, across multiple geographies is essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate with both empathy and clarity across the organization

• Outstanding attention to detail is required

• Ability to work both independently with minimal direction and collaboratively across multiple functions

• Effective at influencing across virtual/cross-group teams

• Ability to forge close relationships, influence decisions, and gain trust as an advisor and consultant

• Strong customer focus

• Proven track record of aligning benefit programs with business strategy/objectives in a progressive environment while designing and delivering new programs for emerging markets

• Understanding of payroll processes related to benefits administration

• Ability to operate at a fast pace with clients and ever-changing business needs, remaining creative and innovative with team and clients

• Knowledge of international labor and/or benefits legislation.

• Innovation and creativity

• Change management

• Experience in working with or managing an outsourced benefits broker/vendor is preferred

• Experience with multinational pooling is preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, economics, or a related field is desirable