The

Global Benefits Senior Manager

oversees the development and implementation of benefit solutions for Accenture globally and in the US & Canada. This position manages the development of Accenture's short- and long-term benefit strategy and ensures that Accenture's benefit programs are competitive and aligned with Accenture's total rewards strategy in each country. Also manages the benefits philosophy, process, and operational guidelines.  
 
This role will also focus on US & Canada benefits and split their time 50/50 between US & Canada benefits and global benefits. 
 

Key Responsibilities:

 
Work to implement global and US & Canada solutions such as brokering strategies, global minimum standards, policies, financial strategies, etc. to drive innovation, employee experience and cost optimization. 
Monitor Accenture's benefit programs to ensure compliance with applicable laws, standards, and work council agreements and ensure that Accenture programs are fully integrated with statutory programs within each country. 
Global Governance: Assist countries with developing their benefit business cases for changes to the existing programs and/or the creation of new programs through assessment against our global principles and market intelligence 
Identify, develop and implement global and US & Canada solutions to maximize economies of scale and spending. 
Ensure our employees who transfer across the globe have adequate coverage and develop solutions to solve any gaps. 
Develop and maintain network benefit contacts within the geographies. 
Monitor benefit trends and provide guidance to leadership on direction of our programs  
Drive innovation and promotion strategies of our benefits ecosystem 
Manage other health & welfare and benefits projects, as necessary (e.g., multinational insurance pooling, analysis of coverage data for outsourcing or merger/acquisitions, senior executive new program design, communications strategies, vendors mgmt, etc.). 
Develop/refine benefits policies to guide geographic programs design and governance. 
Identify and implement strong and robust health and data trends using health and  vendor management offering to develop  and project management skills 
Other projects as assigned