Job description

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 Hats 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 advantages 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 creative 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
- Bachelors degree in human resources, business, economics, or a related field is desirable

📌 Benefits Analyst (Pune)
🏢 Red Hat
📍 Pune