Benefits Senior Specialist - EMEA Region

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At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

 

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Benefits Senior Specialist to join our Benefits Center of Expertise (CoE) team, focused on the EMEA region. In this role, you will support the design and scaling of innovative, competitive, and compliant benefits programs aligned with SAP’s global strategy, business needs, and evolving market trends.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Contribute to the implementation of global benefits programs and harmonization efforts such as pension governance, time-off, transportation benefits, Perks, and recognition frameworks
• Support vendor assessments, selection, and ongoing management for EMEA region
• Monitor performance metrics to ensure optimal delivery standards and cost efficiency
• Partner with legal, finance, and other teams to ensure compliance with local laws and SAP’s global policies
• Act as a trusted advisor to Total Rewards Relations Managers offering guidance on benefits-related decisions by providing data-driven insights on benefits costs, compliance considerations, and evolving employee benefits designs

 

YOUR PROFILE

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Benefits across multiple European countries, with solid hands-on involvement in supporting the design and management of benefits programs
• Experience in managing external vendors and brokers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring high-quality service delivery
• Project management skills and the ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities in
  cross-functional teams
• Solid knowledge of benefits practices, policies, and legal requirements
• Strong communication and persuasive stakeholder engagement skills in a matrixed, international setting
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

 

ABOUT THE TEAM

 Benefits Center of Expertise (COE) team ensures comprehensive oversight of all benefits available worldwide, drives the SAP Benefits strategy that aims to enhance administrative efficiencies, consistency, and provide impactful solutions that support the Total Rewards employee experience narrative. Our mission is to align overall costs to the market, while creating a consistently above-market Benefits experience that maintains flexibility for local entities.

 

What you can expect is professional onboarding, exciting career progression, a diverse work environment providing growth opportunities, learning & development possibilities, and an international business network for you to leverage. Interesting non-work related activities (volunteering, charity, sport events,..)

This role is based at the ultra-modern Metronom office building directly above the Nove Butovice metro station. The location encompasses SAP's vision for the perfect work-life balance by featuring uniquely decorated relaxation rooms, parents' and kids' room.

 

BENEFITS

Yearly bonuses, sick days paid and sick leaves fully refunded, flexible start/end of working hours, contributions to the pension/life insurance, meal vouchers, holidays 5 weeks, educational courses, coaching and mentoring opportunities, free massage, cafeteria plan, free fitness studio, generous shares program, etc

 

 ​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management.