Sr Consultant - Employee Benefits

About us

Join us at Orange Business!We are a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business.Every day, you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent, sustainable global solutions, no matter where our customers operate. With over 30,000 employees across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.

About the role

• Lead the employee benefits strategy and governance across assigned countries, aligned with business, HR, and global objectives.
• Develop multi-year roadmaps across health, life, disability, pension, workers’ compensation, and other benefits.
• Drive benefit renewals, vendor negotiations, and cost optimization while maintaining competitive coverage and a positive employee experience.
• Manage consultants, brokers, insurers, and other providers; establish performance standards and continuous improvement plans.
• Use claims, utilization, financial, and market data to identify risks, savings opportunities, and strategic recommendations.
• Modernize benefits through digital platforms, flexible benefits, well-being solutions, automation, analytics, and other innovations.
• Partner with HR and Communications to improve benefits communication, awareness, utilization, and employee experience.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, oversee audits and risk remediation, and maintain accurate reporting and dashboards.
• Advise senior leaders and build alignment across HR, Finance, C&B, business teams, and country stakeholders.
• Lead and develop benefits teams and cross-functional partners, fostering collaboration and building internal expertise.

Benefits Strategy & Governance

• Lead benefits strategy and governance across assigned countries, aligned with business, HR, and global objectives.
• Develop multi-year roadmaps across health, life, disability, pension, workers’ compensation, and other benefits.
• Identify opportunities to harmonize, simplify, and enhance benefits programs.

Benefits Renewal, Cost & Vendor Management

• Lead benefit renewals, negotiations, implementation, and post-renewal governance.
• Manage advisors, insurers, and vendors, setting performance standards and driving continuous improvement.
• Use claims, utilization, financial, and benchmarking data to identify risks and cost-saving opportunities.

Benefits Transformation & Innovation

• Modernize benefits delivery through digital platforms, flexible benefits, well-being solutions, automation, and analytics.
• Develop business cases for new solutions and transformation initiatives.

Employee Experience, Well-being & Communication

• Partner with HR and Communications to deliver clear, engaging benefits information.
• Use employee feedback to improve benefits awareness, utilization, and experience.

Compliance, Risk & Reporting

• Ensure benefits programs meet legal, regulatory, and company requirements.
• Oversee audits, risk remediation, reporting, and dashboards to monitor costs, utilization, and vendor performance.
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to senior management.

Strategic Stakeholder Management

• Advise HR, Finance, C&B, and business leaders on benefits strategy and complex decisions.
• Build trusted relationships and align local needs with global strategy.
• Serve as an escalation point and represent the organization with external partners.

People Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, coach, and develop benefits team members and professionals.
• Build internal expertise through knowledge sharing and mentoring.
• Lead collaborative, high-performing teams across geographies and time zones.

About you

• Significant experience in international employee benefits consulting, strategy, or management.
• Customer service-oriented mindset.  
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to translate business priorities into benefits solutions.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in cost optimization, financial analysis, and negotiations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to engage with senior leadership.
• Strong vendor, broker, consultant, and partner management capabilities.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.
• Strong understanding of benefits strategy, funding arrangements, risk management, and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to lead transformation, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong communication, presentation, and executive storytelling skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a complex, matrixed, and global environment.
• Ability to challenge constructively and operate with a solution-oriented, win-win mindset.
• High level of ownership, accountability, integrity, and sound judgment.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across geographies and time zones.

You bring open mindedness, ability to handle pressure, leading with courage and empathy, assertiveness and communicate effectively.

What we offer

• Global Opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world.
• Flexible Work Environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working).
• Professional Development: Training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities.
• Career Growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange.
• Caring and Daring Culture: Health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events.
• Reward Programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards.

Only your skills matter