Work Flexibility: Hybrid About the Role Join a team that helps deliver an exceptional employee experience across the EMEA region through effective benefits administration and continuous improvement. As Lead,
Benefits
Administration EMEA, you will drive critical projects, optimise processes, and ensure high-quality service delivery while partnering with stakeholders across Human Resources, Finance, and external providers. What You Will Do Lead benefits administration activities across the EMEA region, ensuring service level agreements are consistently achieved. Manage business-critical projects, including mergers and acquisitions support, process transitions, and continuous improvement initiatives. Investigate, escalate, and resolve complex benefits and system-related issues to minimise operational disruption. Partner with Human Resources systems teams to identify and implement process enhancements and system improvements. Support testing, validation, and deployment of new system functionality to improve operational effectiveness. Analyse benefits data, trends, and employee enquiries to identify improvement opportunities and develop actionable recommendations. Develop, maintain, and standardise end-to-end benefits administration processes, knowledge articles, FAQs, and troubleshooting documentation. Provide onboarding, training, and ongoing guidance to team members to strengthen operational expertise and service delivery capabilities. What You Will Need Required
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience. Minimum 4 years of experience in an international Human Resources environment.
Experience
managing employee benefits administration within the EMEA region.
Experience
in process improvement and project management.
Experience
using Workday. Advanced Excel user. Demonstrated knowledge of EMEA benefits regulations and compliance requirements. Fluent English language proficiency.
Preferred Qualifications
Proficiency in German, French or an additional European language.
Experience
using ServiceNow. Additional Information This role supports employee benefits administration across multiple countries within the EMEA region. Regular collaboration with internal stakeholders, external benefits providers, and cross-functional teams is required. Participation in regional and global projects, including business transitions and acquisitions, may be required. Netherlands Pay Ranges: Netherlands: €56.300 - €104.500 EUR Annual At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package. If you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process. Travel Percentage: 10% Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com Work Flexibility Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location. Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based. Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category. Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.