Manager, Benefits Strategy & Global Projects - REMOTE
Beckman Coulter
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The Manager, Benefits Strategy & Global Projects is responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing comprehensive health and welfare benefit strategies for North America and globally—ensuring cost-effectiveness, compliance, vendor performance, data governance, M&A integration, and continuous improvement—while driving harmonization, wellbeing initiatives, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance associate experience.
This position reports to the Sr. Director, Benefits and is part of the Health & Welfare Team in the Total Rewards department of Human Resources and will be fully remote.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
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Design, implement, and manage a multi‑year strategy for health and welfare benefit programs (medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life, disability, voluntary benefits, wellness, and time away), balancing opportunity, associate experience, and cost management.
- Lead program updates through strong change management and business case development in partnership with People Analytics, Legal, Finance, and other key internal partners.
- Ensure programs remain competitive, cost‑effective, and compliant with federal/state regulations (ACA, ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, FMLA).
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Provide comprehensive stewardship of benefit programs, including:
- Annual performance assessments and analytics with key vendors
- Oversight of provider delivery, service levels, contractual adherence, and performance
- Establishing cycles for vendor review and contract changes
- Serving as the first point of escalation for vendor issues
Guide and improve absence management programs, including Flexible Time Off, PTO, Vacation, and Paid Sick Leave across diverse associate groups.
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Drive cost‑containment and data‑driven decision‑making, by:
- Monitoring cost trends using market benchmarks and associate engagement data
- Supporting feasibility studies and internal/external analytic efforts
- Owning Danaher’s U.S. Benefits Data Warehouse to track plan performance, insights, and opportunities
Lead M&A integration efforts, ensuring smooth transitions of acquisitions and divestitures into/out of Danaher’s benefit programs.
Coach and develop benefits team members across Corporate, Platform, and OpCo levels to build best‑in‑class capability and collaboration.
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Identify opportunities to expand and harmonize benefits across global regions, including:
- Identifying gaps, harmonizing offerings, consolidating vendors, and mitigating compliance risks
- Championing benefit plan engagement and ensuring consistent policy alignment
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Manage and scale global wellbeing and support offerings, including:
- The Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Targeted point solutions for health, welfare, and financial wellbeing
Participate in global benefits committees and contribute to shaping enterprise‑level benefit strategy.
Develop associate engagement insights, including the creation of surveys and storytelling using tools such as OneModel and conjoint survey methods.
Advance continuous improvement across all benefit programs, applying a continuous improvement mindset to strategy, design, and delivery.
Support emerging benefit capabilities, including defining and governing Danaher’s AI benefits strategy and building content management capabilities for Comp & Benefits leaders.
Lead initiatives to streamline benefit administration and communications, improving global benefit engagement and ease of access.
Partner cross‑functionally with Inclusion & Belonging, Talent Acquisition, Internal Communications, DBS Office, Legal, Finance, and L&D to ensure alignment, effective solution delivery, and enterprise process excellence.
Collaborate closely with HR Operations to drive process excellence through DBS tools, technology, and scalable operating mechanisms.
Qualifications
- Experience & Education: 7+ years in benefit design/delivery, with emphasis on Health & Welfare Programs. Global project and program implementation experience across multiple associate groups preferred. BA/BS in related field preferred
- Project Management: Strong acumen and expertise; experience in professional services/consulting preferred. Ability to connect with multiple stakeholders – from C-Suite to associates in a clear and effective manner.
- Continuous Improvement: Bring projects from ideation, validation of root cause using analytics, financial impact, KPIs and other measurements of success for both implementation and ongoing sustainment.
- Technology: Experience developing/delivering technology solutions for benefit programs. Workday or Data Warehouse experience a plus.
- Disability Programs: Experience with Short- and Long-Term Disability programs and outsourcing
It would be a plus if the candidate possess,
- M&A: Experience with due diligence and integration. Divestiture experience a plus.
Relationships
- Reports to Global Director of Benefits
- Exposure to senior management (Global Director of Benefits, VP of Total Rewards, CEO, CFO, CHRO, Global Controller, FP&A, VPs of HR, Platform EVPs, OpCo Presidents)
- Interaction with Platform/OpCo HR and Benefit leaders
- Key external relationships: Benefit Plan Administrators, Vendor Partners, Consultants, Plan Actuaries, ERISA Counsel
Danaher offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
At Danaher, we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Danaher can provide.
The annual salary range for this role is $140,000 - $160,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.
This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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