Director, Benefits – EMEA

Position Summary
The Director Benefits EMEA is a senior regional leader responsible for elevating modernising and integrating Marriotts employee benefits practices across the EMEA region. This role exists to simplify and strengthen a complex and decentralised benefits landscape transforming it into a coherent competitive and easytonavigate ecosystem that supports attraction engagement and retention across diverse markets.

Reporting to the Vice President Total Rewards EMEA the role drives forwardlooking benefits strategy governance and optimisation. The position ensures benefits remain locally relevant competitive compliant and financially sustainable while positioning benefits as a strategic enabler of talent and employee experience.

The role requires a highly selfdirected strategic deliveryfocused leader capable of driving complex multicountry initiatives without direct line management.

Scope

• Location: London
• Hybrid Model: 2-3 days in the office
• Role Type: Individual Contributor

Key Responsibilities

EMEA Benefits Strategy & Modernisation

• Define own and evolve the EMEA Benefits Strategy aligned to Total Rewards and People Strategy.
• Position benefits as a strategic talent lever for attraction retention wellbeing and engagement.
• Modernise benefit practices to reflect market expectations and employerofchoice standards.
• Establish clear design principles: competitiveness equity sustainability affordability and experience.

Benefits Ecosystem Simplification & Governance

• Lead transformation of fragmented marketspecific practices into a unified EMEA ecosystem.
• Create a consistent benefits taxonomy framework and standards.
• Clarify governance policies and decision rights.
• Balance simplification with legal regulatory and cultural requirements.

Insured Benefits Pooling & Financial Optimisation

• Lead development and optimisation of EMEA pooling strategies (medical life disability risk).
• Improve benefit value reduce cost and enhance governance via pooling.
• Partner with Finance brokers and insurers on financial outcomes and reinvestment opportunities.
• Serve as regional subjectmatter expert on insured benefits financing.

Vendor Broker & Platform Strategy

• Own EMEA relationships with brokers insurers consultants and TPAs.
• Drive consistency and simplification of vendor/platform strategies.
• Lead tenders renewals and performance reviews.
• Improve transparency on costs utilisation and longterm exposure.

Benefits Review Harmonisation & Transformation Projects

• Lead large multicountry transformation reviews (e.g. leave wellbeing insured benefits).
• Introduce repeatable datadriven evaluation frameworks.
• Prioritise initiatives based on competitiveness equity and employee experience.
• Manage complex project plans risks timelines and stakeholder expectations.

Policy Compliance & Local Relevance

• Own and maintain EMEA benefits policies and governance documentation.
• Ensure compliance with legislation social security works councils and labour requirements.
• Maintain cultural relevance and local competitiveness.

Retirement & Pension Oversight

• Provide oversight and governance for EMEA retirement and pension programs.
• Partner with internal and external experts on renewals compliance and provider evaluations.
• Ensure fiduciary and regulatory standards are met.

Senior Stakeholder Partnership & Influence

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior HR Finance and Global Total Rewards partners.
• Translate complexity into businessfocused recommendations.
• Provide thought leadership to EMEA Total Rewards evolution.

Collaboration & Networked Delivery

• Deliver results through influence rather than authority.
• Collaborate with Total Rewards HR Operations HRBPs and country HR leaders.
• Drive alignment and adoption through frameworks tools and decision support.
• Enable HR teams with simplified playbooks and guidance.

Candidate Profile / Experience

Required

• 10 years experience in Benefits or Total Rewards in complex multicountry environments.
• Proven track record in modernising and integrating benefits practices.
• Experience leading complex multistakeholder initiatives.
• Deep understanding of EMEA benefits and employment environments.
• Highly selfdriven strategic and comfortable with ambiguity.

Preferred

• Experience in hospitality consumer or similarly complex labourintensive industries.
• Exposure to insured benefits pooling or multinational benefits structures.
• Experience partnering with global headquarters Total Rewards teams.

Skills & Competencies

• Strategic and handson leadership.
• Ability to simplify complexity into practical frameworks.
• Credibility with senior executives.
• Strong financial discipline and analytical capability.
• Employeecentric mindset.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influence across matrixed environments.

Why Join Marriott International

Bring your talent expertise to the world stage and help shape a modern competitive and compelling benefits ecosystem across one of the worlds most diverse regions.

Bring your talent expertise to the world stage. Apply today and make your mark with Marriott International.

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