Benefits Specialist, Solutions - LATAM

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

The position

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Specialist, Benefits Solutions, joining our Benefits team.

Requirements

• Experience in Benefits Administration, providing excellent customer service, and designing quality benefits plans, including retirement plans.

• Strong commercial acumen with a keen ability to assess business impacts and negotiate terms that enhance Remote's market competitiveness.

• Skilled in negotiating with a strategic mindset, ensuring the financial and practical competitiveness of benefits offerings.

• You possess top-notch project management skills to accomplish goals, drive reporting, due date adherence, and process iteration to ensure better quality of processes.

• Strong analytical skills and a thorough knowledge of plan designs.

• Ability to understand, evaluate and make judgment on proposals (RFPs).

• Knowledge of benefits contract language.

• Demonstrated ability to learn and configure HR or benefits platforms; prior experience with benefits administration systems, APIs, or workflow tools is a plus.

• Proficient in using AI tools to improve research, analysis, and operational workflows.

• You are a manager of one

• Fluent written and spoken English

• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Key responsibilities

• Research employee benefits plans and vendors to identify those that present the best value.

• Design, recommend and implement new benefits programs. Examine possible plan designs and benefits cost changes.

• Firmly negotiate with vendors and administrators to secure the best plans, options, and rates, thereby ensuring Remote's offerings remain market-leading.

• Serve as primary contact for plan vendors and third-party administrators.

• Ensure compliance with applicable government regulations.

• Act as a key player in strategic negotiations to maintain and enhance the attractiveness and competitiveness of Remote's benefits offerings.

• Analyze current benefits, evaluating the use, services, coverage, effectiveness, cost, plan experience, and competitive trends in benefits programs.

• Review short- and long-range cost estimates/projections and relevant statistical analyses regarding modifications in benefits programs and implementation of new programs.

• Forecast trends and assist with future benefits designs. Develop specific recommendations.

• Provide customer service support to internal and external customers. Develop communication tools to enhance understanding of the benefits package.

• Handle escalations of benefits plans issues.

• Identify automation and process improvement opportunities.

• Work closely and effectively with Benefits Ops, Product, Engineering, Automation, Payroll, International Operations, Legal, Sales, and Customer Success Remote teams to ensure scalability and success of new benefit programs implementation or standard renewals.

• Be able to go from "scout to scale" and actually start things up and get things done.

• Be an internal and external champion of Remote's values and Benefits team's goals.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Manager, Benefits Solutions

• Team: Benefits Solutions

• Location: LATAM

• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with future manager
3. Interview with team members (no managers present)
4. Interview with Senior Director
5. Bar Raiser Interview
6. Offer
7. Prior employment verification check

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is36.90—51.95 USD

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook atremote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:* work from anywhere

• flexible paid time off

• flexible working hours (we areasync)

• 16 weeks paid parental leave

• mental health support services

• stock options

• learning budget

• home office budget & IT equipment

• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.