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The Role:

The Team:

It is an exciting time in the People team at S&P Global.   With a “People Forward” philosophy, the People team shapes culture, develops talent, and drives reward strategies that support excellence. This role presents a unique opportunity for the incumbent to lead the Americas Benefits team.

S&P Global is seeking a Head of Global Benefits for the Americas region to collaborate with senior leadership in the development, design, and execution of S&P Global’ s benefits and wellness programs. This leader will have a people-centric mindset, commercial savvy, and the ability to develop and implement innovative and best-in-class benefits strategies.

This leader will be a key member of the Total Rewards Leadership Team, reporting to the Global Head of Total Rewards. This role will have full responsibility for benefits for the Americas region, and will lead the overall global benefits and wellness strategy in partnership with other regional leads and their teams.

This role is based in New York metropolitan area.

Responsibilities and Impact: 

• Drive strategic planning, design, implementation, maintenance, communication, and administration of benefits and wellness programs

• Be adept at identifying and analyzing data and behavioral patterns to help inform the design, communication, education and administration of benefits and wellness programs

• Demonstrate critical thinking and exceptional people skills in helping solve complex system-wide challenges and in building teams who work effectively with you and each other to provide strategic and operational support to senior management

• Active partner on all M&A activities and contribute to other corporate initiatives

• Benchmark activities across all areas of benefits and wellness to elevate our understanding of our competitiveness and evolve it over time to meet the changing landscape of total rewards

• Lead an effective, people-focused benefit and wellness team that instills company-wide trust and value for the People function, and delivers with operational excellence

• Communicates effectively with leadership and broad employees to convey the value and opportunity of S&P Global’ s benefits and wellness programs

• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations, including ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA, ACA, etc., as well as rules outside the US; keep up-to-date on legal and legislative issues related to all benefit and retirement plans and maintain accurate documentation and reporting for audits and regulatory requirements.

• Manage vendor effectively; monitor administrative costs and pricing of benefit programs and recommend cost-containment strategies.

Fundamental Functional Competencies

• Relationship Building/Influencing: Demonstrate effective and appropriate influencing skills with senior management/partners, combining high-level human capital knowledge with deep organizational understanding. Build strong relationships with solid trust and mutual respect as the foundation. Leverage strong judgement skills to make decisions. Instinctively know when and how to introduce change, in such a way that it is broadly accepted and institutionalized

• Intellectual Curiosity: Ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity and judgement. Quickly study, able to handle complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously. Able to deal effectively with strategic issues, as well as tactical operational details

• Solution- and Results-oriented: Resourceful, with strong service orientation and positive can-do attitude. Fully committed to the job and to deliver outstanding work. Never satisfied with status-quo, continually striving for excellence. Enjoy working hands-on

• Influencing Skills: Able to challenge the status-quo sensitively and constructively. Intellectually agile, self-confident and highly articulate at all levels in the organization

• Execution and Operational Effectiveness: Outcome orientated and able to act decisively and deliver

• Communication: Able to affect behavior and convey the value and opportunity of programs in a way that conveys the relevant information and resonates with the audience

• Deep understanding of financials that drive program costs

Compensation/Benefits Information: (This section is only applicable to US candidates)

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $150,481 to $263,788. Final base sala