Lynda Brown
EMEA Director of Talent AcquisitionBirmingham, United Kingdom
My experience has taught me to give people chances - it’s amazing to see how much they can flourish when you do.
The team
Our team is dedicated to enhancing the employee experience through thoughtful program design, efficient execution, and clear communication.
As a Benefits Team Lead, you will lead efforts to streamline processes, manage vendor relationships, and ensure compliance, while also driving engagement through wellness initiatives and benefits-related events. Working closely with HR partners and cross-functional stakeholders, you’ll help shape and evolve our benefits strategy to meet the diverse needs of our workforce.
The role
• Support strategic Benefits programs and operations for North America and Latin America regions
• Assist employees with Benefits related inquiries and issues, including Health Insurance, retirement plans, and other employee benefits.
• Facilitate the onboarding process by managing registrations, documentation, medical coverage, etc., ensuring a good employee experience.
• Support ongoing benefits communication and coordinate/drive benefit related events (ex. open enrollment, health fairs, employee wellness)
• Creates efficiencies by leveraging HR technology to help automate operational processes
• Creates, maintains, and updates accurate Benefits related documents, processes and procedures
• Propose and execute improvements to the existing processes of the area, guaranteeing a great experience for all those involved, ensuring optimization and effectiveness in its execution and control.
• Assists with various standard and ad hoc reports, audits and filings throughout the year
• Stakeholder management with benefits´ vendors
What you’ll bring
• At least 5+ years of experience in multiple HR disciplines including benefits, payroll, HR policies, HRIS
• Bilingual or multilingual capabilities, especially in English and Spanish, Portuguese is a nice to have
• BS degree in Human Resources or related field preferred
• Analytical, detail-oriented and project management focused
• Experience working with Excel sheets and formulas
• Successful experience working in high growth, dynamic entrepreneurial environments
• Excellent organizational and collaboration skills
• Experience as administrator for enterprise HRIS/payroll systems (i.e. ADP, Paylocity), Workday, ADP Workforce Now highly preferred - It´s a plus
• US benefits experience
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Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
My experience has taught me to give people chances - it’s amazing to see how much they can flourish when you do.
I love to have discussions with employees and managers on what we can do to support the overall wellbeing of our teams.
Working as a group has always given me energy and kept me motivated, we can deliver amazing results as a collective.
Hitachi’s commitment to sustainability and proactiveness to support clients as a social responsibility makes me excited about the future.
Hitachi offers great work-life balance, and flexible working arrangements - from remote to hybrid. If you are interested in comprehensive and competitive perks and benefits, you will find it all here.
Empathy is important. When we love working with the people around us, we like coming into work and dealing with those people every day.
