About Baringa
Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise and advanced technology, the firm helps clients deliver with greater confidence and certainty. Baringa has over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, combining global insight with local understanding.
What you will be doing
* Define and deliver Baringa’s global benefits strategy, ensuring benefits are competitive, compliant, cost‑effective and aligned to the firm’s Employee Value Proposition.
* Own global benefit design, benchmarking and investment decisions, using market insight and data to balance employee experience, risk, and commercial outcomes.
* Lead end‑to‑end global insurance renewals (including medical, risk and travel benefits), developing clear, evidence‑based recommendations for senior stakeholders.
* Act as the owner of broker and provider relationships, leading negotiations, managing performance and escalating issues where required.
* Own the global benefits operating model, ensuring processes are scalable, efficient and consistently applied across countries.
* Own the long‑term benefits systems roadmap, including Workday and connected tools.
* Ensure strong financial governance across benefits, including budget management, forecasting, invoice control and audit readiness.
* Set and sign off the global benefits communications strategy, ensuring high‑impact communications are clear, consistent and aligned to key employee lifecycle moments.
* Design and lead Wellbeing Weeks and key wellbeing initiatives across the organisation, partnering with internal stakeholders and suppliers to deliver high‑impact, inclusive programmes.
* Lead, coach and develop the Global Benefits Team.
* Act as the senior benefits partner to People, Finance, Payroll, HR Operations and Business Enablement leadership, influencing decisions through trusted relationships and data‑led insight.
* Represent global benefits at leadership forums, providing clear advice, effective challenge and recommendations aligned to Baringa’s values and strategy.
Your Skills And Experience
* Experience owning global or multi‑country benefits programmes.
* Systems experience, ideally using Workday Benefits Portal or integrating new benefit technology systems.
* Proven delivery of end‑to‑end benefit renewals, including benchmarking, financial analysis and senior‑level recommendations.
* Strong commercial capability, with experience negotiating with brokers and providers and managing ongoing vendor performance.
* Track record of driving operational excellence, including process improvement, controls, audits and risk management.
* Experience in FlexBens offerings, mindful of global nuances.
* Demonstrated people leadership experience.
* Confidence partnering with senior stakeholders, influencing through insight and judgement.
* Proficiency in creating and presenting via software such as PowerPoint.
* Strong communication skills, able to translate technical and financial detail into clear employee messaging and executive‑ready decision papers.
Benefits
* Generous Annual Leave Policy: 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year, plus a 5‑Year Recharge benefit granting an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years of continuous service.
* Flexible Working: Hybrid working policy and flexibility around unpaid leave.
* Corporate Responsibility Days: 3 days per year to support social and environmental causes.
* Wellbeing Fund: Annual People Fund providing support for individual wellbeing activities.
* Profit Share Scheme: Participation in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme for all employees.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and diversity is essential to driving creativity, innovation and value for our clients and our people.
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