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The Opportunity: Senior Manager, Benefits (Regional Lead)
Location: EMEA
Work Model: Full-Time Remote
Summary:
Iron Mountain is seeking a strategic and experienced Senior Manager, Benefits (Regional Lead) to join our Global Total Rewards team.
In this role, you will be responsible for driving regional benefits strategy, leading a high-performing team, and ensuring the financial sustainability and compliance of all benefit programs across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
You will join a dynamic and collaborative Total Rewards team dedicated to fostering an inclusive and competitive employee experience that supports our "Mountaineers" across the globe.
What You’ll Do
In this role, you will:
Drive Regional Strategy: Act as a transformative leader driving benefits design and delivery across your region.
Lead & Mentor: Represent and lead an effective regional benefits team, providing mentorship and guidance to help team members reach their full potential while fostering a culture of continuous learning.
Ensure Design & Accountability: Hold overall accountability for the design and delivery of compliant, financially sustainable benefits, including paid and unpaid time-off programs.
Collaborate Globally & Locally: Report to the Sr. Director of International Benefits. Represent the regional benefits team and partner with key local HR, procurement, finance, and business leaders.
Align with Corporate Frameworks: Ensure team members understand core design principles and their alignment with the broader business strategy and global framework.
Manage Renewals & Financials: Lead annual plan renewals, including plan design, cost-sharing strategies, funding recommendations, and overall budget management in partnership with leadership.
Leverage Data Analytics: Use data to understand cost drivers, mitigate risks, and identify opportunities to optimize financial cost management.
Maintain Compliance & Governance: Ensure strict compliance, strong financial controls, and accurate plan documentation, filings, audits, and required notices across all country-specific and local regulations.
Drive Operational Excellence: Set the framework for delivering a "frictionless" employee experience, ensuring timely issue resolution and robust controls around eligibility, billing, and data feeds.
Support HR M&A & Benchmarking: Establish controls and governance to act as an active partner on all M&A activities. Benchmark all benefits and wellness areas to evaluate and evolve our competitiveness within the changing total rewards landscape.
Manage Strategic Vendors: Partner with global brokers to establish strong governance. Manage vendors effectively against key performance indicators (KPIs) to deliver clear, engaging employee education and decision support.
Deliver Clear Communications: Communicate effectively with local stakeholders, HR partners, leadership, and Mountaineers to market benefit programs and convey plan changes clearly.
Standardize Operations: Enforce accurate documentation, process flows, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and program reporting for audits and leadership updates.
What You Will Bring
The ideal candidate will have:
Experience: progressive experience in benefits strategy and administration.
Leadership: Proven people management and team development skills.
Language Skills: Full professional proficiency (written and oral) in English.
Technical Savvy: Experience leveraging benefits technology platforms and people analytics to drive insights, improve decision-making, and elevate the employee experience.
Change Management: A change-management mindset with the relationship-building and influencing skills necessary to drive regional benefits transformation.
Financial Acumen: Deep understanding of the financial metrics and drivers that impact program costs.
Execution Focus: An outcome-oriented operational approach with the ability to act decisively and deliver results.
Communication Skills: Strong capability to develop and execute clear, concise strategic benefits communications that make it easy for Mountaineers to understand and utilize their benefits.
What We Offer
Work-Life Balance: Flexible work options to support a healthy work–life balance.
Health & Wellness: Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth within a global organization.
Ready to shape the future of benefits at Iron Mountain? Click "Apply" to start your journey with us today!
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Category: Human ResourcesSkills Required
- Progressive experience in benefits strategy and administration.
- Proven people management and team development skills.
- Full professional proficiency in English (written and oral).
- Experience leveraging benefits technology platforms and people analytics.
- Change-management mindset with relationship-building skills.
- Deep understanding of financial metrics impacting program costs.
- Outcome-oriented operational approach to deliver results.
- Strong capability in strategic benefits communications.
Iron Mountain Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Iron Mountain and has not been reviewed or approved by Iron Mountain.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Inclusive, modern offerings are emphasized, including support for mental health, gender‑affirming care (with travel/lodging where needed), and family‑planning benefits. Recognition for disability inclusion is also highlighted, which aligns with accessible benefits and leave support.
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Retirement Support — A formal 401(k) program is described with automatic enrollment and a clear employer match structure, with immediate vesting referenced in the materials. Access to supporting infrastructure and guidance is noted through dedicated benefits portals and administrators.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple national medical plan options are outlined, along with care navigation, virtual primary care, and pharmacy coverage. Additional wellbeing support is described via EAP services and structured wellbeing programming.
Iron Mountain Insights
What We Do
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 220,000 organizations around the world, Iron Mountain boasts a real estate network of more than 80 million square feet across more than 1,350 facilities in 45 countries dedicated to protecting and preserving what matters most for its customers. Iron Mountain’s solutions portfolio includes records management, data management, document management, data centers, art storage and logistics, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including critical business documents, electronic information, medical data and cultural and historical artifacts.
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