Global Senior Benefits & Wellness Manager

Sage is looking for a Senior Global Benefits & Wellness Manager to design, manage, and improve multi-country benefits, wellbeing, and recognition programs across the U.S., Canada, India, Romania, and Israel, with a strong focus on North America. This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role with meaningful ownership across program design, governance, renewals, supplier management, communications, systems improvements, and business cases for future investment. You'll be part of our Global Benefits, Wellness & Recognition team of 6 within Sage's broader Global Total Rewards Center of Excellence team of 20.

You'll own work that supports Sage in attracting, retaining, and enabling high-performing talent, while directly affecting how employees understand, access, and value their benefits. You'll partner closely with HR/People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, and People Operations to ensure programs are competitive, compliant, scalable, cost-conscious, and deliver measurable value to employees and the business.

Who is Sage and Why Join? Sage helps small to medium-sized businesses to succeed with AI-powered Accounting, Finance and ERP software. Knowing that over 6M of our global customers depend on our solutions, motivates us to keep innovating so they keep growing. Sage Copilot is a prime example.

• Own multi-country benefits, wellbeing, and recognition programs with influence over program design, governance, renewals, supplier performance, and colleague experience.
• Work on the issues benefits leaders are solving now: rising health care costs, affordability, compliance, vendor value, program effectiveness, and helping colleagues better understand and use their benefits.
• Partner directly with Benefits Administration team, HR/People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Compliance, Procurement teams giving you visibility across both the business and employee-experience side of benefits strategy.
• Continue to grow your career within a stable, global SaaS company guided by our mantra "we do the right thing" and values: Human, Bold, Trust, and Simplify, with 40 paid volunteer hours through Sage Foundation.

Location Requirement: Hybrid - 3 days per week from our Atlanta office (Ponce City Market)

Minimum Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, implementing, and managing benefits programs across multiple countries, with strong knowledge of U.S. and Canadian benefits.
• Experience working in a global company/benefits team, contributing to the design and implementation of global benefits programs.
• Proven experience managing third-party brokers and suppliers.
• Strong understanding of benefits, wellbeing and recognition compliance and taxation requirements.
• Knowledge of benefits management systems (Darwin and/or similar third-party system)
• Experience designing and managing colleague recognition and wellbeing programs with an understanding of the link between wellbeing and organizational productivity.
• Strong research, analytical, problem-solving and project management skills.
• Excellent relationship builder, supplier management and negotiation capabilities, including experience managing large contracts and partnering with Procurement and Legal teams.
• Experience improving employee understanding and driving engagement with benefits, wellbeing and recognition programs, evidenced through measurable outcomes and feedback.
• Cultural awareness and the ability to work effectively across global time zones.
• Highly organized, impact-oriented and able to manage priorities effectively
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.