Global Benefits & Wellbeing Lead

Would you like to be part of an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees? Imperial Brands has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and passionate Global Benefits & Wellbeing Lead to join our global People & Culture organisation.

This is a newly created role and a unique opportunity to bring together a benefits landscape that has historically been managed locally across different markets. You will help establish a more consistent enterprise-wide approach, creating global standards while retaining the flexibility needed to remain locally relevant.

Alongside benefits, you will lead the development of our global wellbeing agenda, ensuring our programmes are competitive, inclusive, evidence-based, compliant and financially sustainable.

Working closely with colleagues across P&C, Reward, Finance, Legal, DE&I and our external partners, you will play a key role in improving the employee experience and ensuring our investment in benefits and wellbeing delivers measurable value.

Principle Accountabilities

• Develop and deliver the global benefits strategy, creating a clear enterprise-wide framework that balances market competitiveness, internal equity, cost effectiveness and appropriate local flexibility.
• Lead the global wellbeing agenda, designing scalable and evidence-based programmes that support employee engagement, resilience, inclusion and retention.
• Assess and evolve the current benefits landscape, using market benchmarking, employee insights, utilisation data and analytics to identify opportunities and shape future priorities.
• Establish strong governance and compliance, working with Legal, Tax, Finance and local P&C teams to ensure benefits and wellbeing programmes meet global standards and local regulatory requirements.
• Lead vendor and financial management, including supplier selection, commercial negotiations, service levels, performance oversight, benefits budgets and opportunities to improve value and efficiency.
• Drive stakeholder alignment, communication and adoption, partnering with Performance & Reward, People Experience, DE&I, Strategic Business Partners, Internal Communications, Talent Acquisition and technology partners to embed the strategy across the organisation.

Skills and Experience Required

• Extensive global benefits experience, with a strong track record of designing and implementing benefits strategies across a large, complex and multi-country organisation.
• Proven experience bringing together locally managed benefits, creating a more consistent global framework while maintaining appropriate market flexibility.
• Strong wellbeing strategy experience, with evidence of developing and implementing wellbeing programmes as part of a broader benefits, reward or employee experience proposition.
• Strong commercial and vendor management capability, including supplier negotiations, performance management, budgeting and value realisation.
• Highly analytical and data-driven, with experience using market data, utilisation insights and employee feedback to shape strategy and measure impact.
• Strong stakeholder and change leadership skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, build effective partnerships and translate strategy into practical implementation across multiple markets.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we're fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants.