Travelport is a place of opportunity. It's our incredible team that makes our company great - our people drive our winning culture. What's Travelport? Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform. Our next-generation marketplace connects buyers and sellers that share our passion for delivering exceptional travel experiences. Unconflicted and independent, we are reinventing a simpler future for travel's complex ecosystem.
What does a great Benefits Manager do? This role will partner with our broker and internal stakeholders to shape our benefits strategy and implement health/welfare, and retirement benefits within our global ecosystem.
Specifically, he/she will need to work collaboratively to understand business needs, translate these needs into tangible offerings for employees. This leader will continuously monitor and look to evolve offerings.
The Benefits Manager is an integral part of the People team at Travelport. This role is highly regarded. This role impacts recruitment and retention.
Responsibilities: The manager will be responsible for overall design, implementation, communication, and administration of Travelport's benefits programs globally, excluding the US and Canada. He/She will ensure that the benefit programs support the organization from a strategic and compliance perspective. He/She will foster positive team environment and mentor junior members in the team. This role manages our global mobility assignments and policies.
Partner with Senior Leadership, People Team Partners, and broader teams
- Maintain effective relationships with key internal customers and support organizations
- Engage business units on their strategies and resulting needs
- Lead and coach internal business partners and team members on the benefit offerings
- Create collaborative partnerships with business stakeholders
Strategic Objectives
- Maintain ownership of plans and evaluate for purpose
- Engage business units on their needs and resulting needs
- Partner with external broker to manage relationships and timely renewals
- Partner with local People Teams to deliver programs and platforms
Management and Leadership
- Participate in a Global Reward team that supports the Company's objective to Put People First
- Create an environment that emphasizes "Partnership" with all team processes.
- Effectively motivate and collaborate within their team and across their peer group
- Mentor team members
- Lead efforts to drive business process improvements in support of team objectives
What we look for/who would prosper in this role? - SME for global benefit programs and retirement schemes.
- 5+ years proven experience within organizations supporting global (excluding US and Canada) management of benefit programs/platforms, and retirement schemes including sourcing, supplier management, supplier quality management
- Previous experience managing global mobility
- Ability to work in fast paced, complex and dynamic environment
- Demonstrated ability to think globally/strategically, turn information into effective strategies and drive results.
- Superior interpersonal skills, strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
- Strong organizational and multitasking capabilities
- Analytical skills to solve complex problems
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Must have strong team building skills to integrate and motivate people from different organizations to work together in achieving process objectives and project goals
- Must be adept at communicating with vendors and internal business partners to establish and maintain credibility.
- Positive attitude.
As we evolve and grow as a business, so will you. You will thrive within an inclusive and diverse workplace where you are encouraged to think differently, and have the courage, confidence & ambition to challenge what's been done before, and be bold to win!
These are just a few of our employee's favourite benefits/perks... - Opportunity to work on high profile strategic projects in Marketing, HR and Finance within a fast paced, dynamic global technology business.
- Part of a highly regarded team with a "hand in glove" relationship with the internal customers that we serve.
- Excellent flexibility in working arrangements, where working from our offices and from home are welcomed and encouraged.
- Travelport's "people first culture" provides for highly engaging and transparent relationships among employees and line managers.
Interested? We'd love for you to get in touch! We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.