Benefits Manager

About the Role

At TravelPerk, we’re not just revolutionising the world of business travel—we’re setting the standard for what it means to be a top employer. Our people-first values are the foundation of our success, and we are dedicated to delivering meaningful and competitive employee experiences.

As we continue to scale, we’re looking for a Benefits Manager who thrives in an autonomous, hands-on role, where they can shape, execute, and continuously improve benefits programs across the UK, Spain, Germany, and the US.

This is a senior individual contributor position, reporting to the Senior Director of Total Rewards, where you’ll own the end-to-end benefits strategy and operations. You’ll work closely with leadership, vendors, People Operations and employees to create best-in-class programs while ensuring seamless delivery.

If you love balancing strategy with execution, making data-driven decisions, and solving challenges in a fast-paced environment, we’d love to meet you and tell you more about our plans!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Owning and executing benefits administration: Partnering with People Operations to support managing the day-to-day operations of global benefits, including enrollment, payroll integrations, compliance, and resolving employee queries.
• Managing vendors and systems: Serving as the primary point of contact for external benefits providers, negotiating contracts, overseeing invoices, and managing benefit systems, such as Darwin in the UK, Benify in Spain and Insperity in the US. HiBob is our internal HRIS.
• Managing renewals and benefit implementations: Managing global benefit renewals throughout the year and any new benefit implementations. Including surveying employees, measuring employee satisfaction, creating and delivering employee communications and in person presentations.
• Solving problems and handling escalations: Troubleshooting system and employee issues, ensuring smooth benefits processes across all regions.
• Strategic planning and benchmarking: Researching market trends, identifying opportunities, and recommending improvements to maintain competitive, employee-centric benefits offerings.
• Collaborating cross-functionally: Partnering with Payroll, People Operations, and Finance to ensure seamless execution and compliance of benefits programs.
• Taking full ownership: Managing benefits independently with minimal oversight, ensuring both operational excellence and long-term strategic improvements.

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive experience in benefits administration, with a strong track record of managing programs across multiple countries.
• Deep system expertise, particularly with Darwin or similar benefits platforms, and ability to navigate complex administrative processes. Experience with various platforms is a plus, along with the ability to quickly adapt to new systems you may not have used before.
• Scrappy, hands-on approach, comfortable managing multiple operational tasks across different systems.
• Independent problem solver who thrives in managing benefits autonomously with little leadership involvement.
• US benefits experience is a plus but not required—a high-level understanding and willingness to learn are expected.
• Strong vendor management and negotiation skills, with experience overseeing external providers and ensuring cost-effective benefits solutions.
• Analytical mindset with data fluency, capable of forecasting costs and optimizing benefits strategy.
• Experience in fast-growing, high-change environments, where adaptability and execution are key.
• A comfortable presenter, the role requires regular presenting to employees in each of our locations, whether it’s monthly new joiner on-boardings (held virtually) or annual renewal launch presentations (held in real life).

Our Benefits

• 💰 A competitive compensation package, including equity in TravelPerk
• 🌴 Generous vacation days so you can rest and recharge
• 💊 Health perks such as private healthcare or gym allowance, depending on your location
• 🥳 Unforgettable TravelPerk events
• 💙 A mental health support tool for your wellbeing
• 📒 Exponential growth & personal development opportunities
• 🫶 VolunteerPerk - 16 paid hours per year to volunteer for a cause of your choice
• 🌎 "Work from anywhere" in the world allowance of 20 working days per year
• 📚 IRL English or Spanish Lessons are held in the Barcelona office

How We Work & Values

Our Vision is for a world where TravelPerk is the platform for human connection in real life (IRL). We take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be within commuting distance of our Barcelona HQ or London office. We fundamentally believe in meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, and creativity, ultimately making us a great workplace.

At TravelPerk, we prioritise experience and potential over academic qualifications for this role. We believe that talent and ability aren't always reflected in formal credentials.

We provide relocation assistance for specific roles. Please specify your need for this in your application, and we will evaluate the possibility on a case-by-case basis. English is our official office language, so we request that resumes be submitted in English for effective communication.

TravelPerk is a global company with a diverse customer base—, and we want to ensure that the people behind our product reflect that. We're an equal opportunity employer, meaning you're welcome at TravelPerk regardless of your appearance, where you're from, or anything else that makes you. 

You can check about our values here. We'll guide you through our culture and explain how it will underpin your success in this role.

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