Pensions & Benefits Manager North America

Description

• Serve as the main contact for strategic insured employee benefits in the region.
• Develop and direct IEB financial and risk strategies with support from Group US Benefits Pool team and brokers.
• Offering guidance on strategic and operational enhancements.
• Provide regular risk management reports to the global and regional management.
• Shape annual renewal strategies with Group Benefit Pool team’s and brokers’ input, considering market challenges.
• Monitor employee benefits/medical plan pools' performance, recommend cost-control actions, and address key cost drivers.
• Providing oversight for pension program design, implementation, and compliance, ensuring adherence to all applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
• Draft and prepare a communication strategy and communication material to effectively support employee communication and line manager support.
• Monitoring legislative developments, evaluating risks, managing costs, and recommending plan modifications as appropriate.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines
• Oversee and control Insured Employee Benefits Programs – with particular focus on medical programs/health benefits - across North America, including finance strategy, risk management, and cost control.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including legal, finance, compliance, and business at local, regional, and global levels including Hitachi Americas Benefits Committee, of which you will be a member.
• Manage relationships with internal and external vendors, ensuring quality service through coordination with the Group US Benefit Pool team and brokers.
• Contribute to governance and management of our regional pension plans, with an emphasis on regulatory reporting and compliance.
• Develop and provide target-oriented training to support HR and business as required.

Requirements

• Strong ability to effectively operate in a matrix organization and expertise in communicating across business units, functions and jurisdictions.
• Proficiency in use of IT tools/applications and strong skills to work with Microsoft Office.
• Excellent end-to-end process thinking and analytical skills.
• Self-driven, collaborative, enthusiastic and inclusive, curious, and wanting to learn new things, creating or responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs. Ability to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Solid understanding around pension and willingness to expand knowledge in the pension sphere to reach expert level in Pensions.
• Profound Project Management experience – leading and coordinating stakeholders to achieve project objectives.
• Strong presentation skills and stakeholder management.
• Degree (minimum bachelor or similar) in Economics, Business & Administration, Law, or comparable subject.
• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience in US employee benefits particularly around medical plan governance - ideally within a multinational matrix organization - having an excellent understanding of the multiple challenges in the area of medical plans and health benefits.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance