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Senior Global Benefits Manager

Fivetran

Fivetran

Accounting & Finance
United States · Remote
Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2023

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About the Role

Fivetran is looking for a highly driven and proactive Senior Manager of Employee Benefits to join the People Team. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Global HR Operations and Employee Benefits, you will be a strategic thought leader who plays a critical role in development and execution of our roadmap for Global Benefits and Wellbeing.If you excel in fast-paced settings and seek a position that encourages innovation within a rapidly growing startup, we'd love to connect with you!

What You'll Do

  • Strategically lead the Global Benefits function to effectively design, implement, administer and manage the benefits and wellbeing strategy, philosophy, programs, policies, and initiatives
  • Ensure programs are developed to be aligned with our culture are cost effective, sustainable, market relevant and meet the needs of our employees
  • Develop and manager program budgets, global benchmarking strategies, and third party consultant/broker/vendor relationships
  • Keep current on regulations and new legislation; ensure all programs and policies are legally compliant; and oversee audits and required filings
  • Understand market trends, business challenges, and priorities by gathering competitive market data and networking with industry peers
  • Build collaborative relationships and provide consultative advice to Leaders and HR business partners on benefits strategy
  • Lead the benefits renewals processes
  • Implementation of pension programs and vendors
  • Partner on building and deploying strategy and a roadmap to create a culture of wellbeing for our employees
  • Provide guidance and consultation on all areas related to time off and leave of absence programs across US, APAC and EMEA
  • Act as a point of escalation for the Global HR Operations partners on matters that are complex to resolve
  • Train Global HR Operations partners on day to day administration and operations of global benefits programs
  • Lead and provide guidance to the 401(k) and Pension Committee
  • Manage, monitor and implement improvements and compliance changes to International Supplemental Pension plan and 401(K) program
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex benefits information in a simple manner to varying levels of employees, including senior leadership.

Skills We're Looking For

  • 5-7+ years in designing and managing Global Employee Benefit programs, with 3+ years developing and executing strategy
  • 2+ years experience with wellbeing program development and deployment
  • 3+ years experience in vendor management
  • Experience with utilizing global benefits benchmarking and market practice for improvement and implementation of programs
  • Strong Global Benefits compliance
  • Desire to grow and build a global benefits infrastructure
  • Empathy, cultural sensitivity, high emotional intelligence
  • Employee customer-centric mindset
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Effective Project Management skills
  • Ability to analyze data, apply critical and creative thinking to draw conclusions and develop solutions.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and trustworthiness in handling confidential information
  • Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills

Nice-to-haves (optional):

  • Working knowledge of Workday
  • Experience using benefits enrollment systems and tools

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The pay range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the target position and level. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.


This range represents base salary only and does not include incentive for sales roles, equity, or benefits, if applicable.


Pay Range
$150,920$188,650 USD

Perks and Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
  • Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
  • RSU stock grants
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Recharge, reenergize, and pursue personal and professional goals with a 30 day paid leave after 5 years

*may vary by country - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

To learn more about Fivetran's benefits by region - click here.

We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

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