Global Benefits & Wellbeing Manager

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence.

The People team exists to ensure Baringa’s people experience enables our strategy, growth, and performance. The team designs and delivers future‑ready people solutions across reward, benefits, wellbeing, people operations, systems, and policy, ensuring our colleagues are supported to do their best work wherever they are in the world.

What you will be doing

• You will define and deliver Baringa’s global benefits strategy, ensuring benefits are competitive, compliant, cost effective, and aligned to the firm’s Employee Value Proposition.
• You will own global benefit design, benchmarking, and investment decisions, using market insight and data to balance employee experience, risk, and commercial outcomes.
• You will lead end‑to‑end global insurance renewals (including medical, risk, and travel benefits), developing clear, evidence‑based recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• You will act as the owner of broker and provider relationships, leading negotiations, managing performance, and escalating issues where required.
• You will own the global benefits operating model, ensuring processes are scalable, efficient, and consistently applied across countries.
• You will own the long‑term benefits systems roadmap, including Workday and connected tools.
• You will ensure strong financial governance across benefits, including budget management, forecasting, invoice control, and audit readiness.
• You will set and sign off the global benefits communications strategy, ensuring high‑impact communications are clear, consistent, and aligned to key employee lifecycle moments.
• You will design and lead Wellbeing Weeks and key wellbeing initiatives across the organisation, partnering with internal stakeholders and suppliers to deliver high‑impact, inclusive programmes.
• You will lead, coach, and develop the Global Benefits Team.
• You will act as the senior benefits partner to People, Finance, Payroll, HR Operations, and Business Enablement leadership, influencing decisions through trusted relationships and data‑led insight.
• You will represent global benefits at leadership forums, providing clear advice, effective challenge, and recommendations aligned to Baringa’s values and strategy.

Your skills and experience

• Experience owning global or multi‑country benefits programmes.
• Systems experience, ideally experience using Workday Benefits Portal / experience in integrating new benefit technology systems.
• Proven delivery of end‑to‑end benefit renewals, including benchmarking, financial analysis, and senior‑level recommendations.
• Strong commercial capability, with experience negotiating with brokers and providers and managing ongoing vendor performance.
• A track record of driving operational excellence, including process improvement, controls, audits, and risk management.
• Experience in FlexBens offerings bearing in mind global nuances.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience.
• Confidence partnering with senior stakeholders, influencing through insight and judgement.
• Proficient and experienced in regularly creating and presenting via software such as PowerPoint.
• Strong communication skills, able to translate technical and financial detail into clear employee messaging and exec‑ready decision papers.

What a career at Baringa will give you

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: All our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes.
• Wellbeing Fund: We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions.