Make a meaningful impact by shaping how employees experience financial wellbeing and retirement across a truly global organization. In this role, you will design and govern retirement strategies that influence employees across multiple regions, bringing consistency, innovation, and strategic clarity to complex global programs. This is a unique opportunity to build and evolve global frameworks that directly support business growth and employee financial security.

What You Will Do

• Lead the end-to-end strategy, design, and execution of global defined contribution and defined benefit programs across EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, ensuring alignment with local market practices and organizational priorities
• Evaluate investment strategies and governance structures, partnering with internal and external stakeholders to ensure programs remain compliant, risk-managed, and financially optimized
• Develop and implement global retirement program enhancements, identifying gaps across regions and driving consistent, scalable solutions where permitted by local regulations
• Design and launch financial wellbeing initiatives that improve employee understanding and engagement, increasing participation and perceived value of retirement programs
• Own vendor strategy by leading RFP processes, negotiating contracts, and optimizing vendor relationships to improve service quality, cost efficiency, and program outcomes
• Manage annual renewal and enrollment cycles across regions, ensuring timely execution, regulatory compliance, and seamless employee experience globally
• Partner cross-functionally with legal, procurement, and HR teams to assess program feasibility, mitigate risk, and align benefits strategies with business and compliance requirements
• Support mergers and acquisitions by evaluating inherited benefits programs, identifying gaps, and implementing aligned retirement strategies during integration
• Establish and monitor service level agreements, using performance data to drive continuous improvement and hold vendors accountable to defined standards
• Present and influence senior leadership by translating complex retirement and investment topics into clear, actionable recommendations that shape global decision-making
  
  

Required

What you will need

• Bachelor’s degree or 6 years of equivalent experience
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience
  
  

Preferred

• Minimum 5 years of experience managing global benefits programs
• Minimum 5 years of experience in vendor management
• Experience managing global retirement programs across multiple regions
• Minimum 5 years of experience in HR, HR operations, or related function supporting business leaders
• Minimum 4 years of people leadership experience
  
  

Preferred work arrangement: Candidate based in the Eastern Time Zone to effectively support global stakeholders across multiple regions

Posted Date: 06/18/2026 This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN: $135,600 - $225,900 USD Annual
• US5: $142,400 - $237,200 USD Annual
• US10: $149,200 - $248,500 USD Annual
• US15: $155,900 - $259,800 USD Annual
• US20: $162,700 - $271,100 USD Annual
• US30: $176,300 - $293,700 USD Annual
  
  

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Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.