America Benefits Team Lead

Our Company   We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.   Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.   Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The Team

Our team is dedicated to enhancing the employee experience through thoughtful program design, efficient execution, and clear communication.
As a Benefits Team Lead, you will lead efforts to streamline processes, manage vendor relationships, and ensure compliance, while also driving engagement through wellness initiatives and benefits-related events. Working closely with HR partners and cross-functional stakeholders, you’ll help shape and evolve our benefits strategy to meet the diverse needs of our workforce.

The Role

• • Support strategic Benefits programs and operations for North America and Latin America regions
• • Assist employees with Benefits related inquiries and issues, including Health Insurance, retirement plans, and other employee benefits.
• • Facilitate the onboarding process by managing registrations, documentation, medical coverage, etc., ensuring a good employee experience.
• • Support ongoing benefits communication and coordinate/drive benefit related events (ex. open enrollment, health fairs, employee wellness)
• • Creates efficiencies by leveraging HR technology to help automate operational processes
• • Creates, maintains, and updates accurate Benefits related documents, processes and procedures
• • Propose and execute improvements to the existing processes of the area, guaranteeing a great experience for all those involved, ensuring optimization and effectiveness in its execution and control.
• • Assists with various standard and ad hoc reports, audits and filings throughout the year
• • Stakeholder management with benefits´ vendors

What You’Ll Bring

• • At least 5+ years of experience in multiple HR disciplines including benefits, payroll, HR policies, HRIS
• • Bilingual or multilingual capabilities, especially in English and Spanish, Portuguese is a nice to have
• • BS degree in Human Resources or related field preferred
• • Analytical, detail-oriented and project management focused
• • Experience working with Excel sheets and formulas
• • Successful experience working in high growth, dynamic entrepreneurial environments
• • Excellent organizational and collaboration skills
• • Experience as administrator for enterprise HRIS/payroll systems (i.e. ADP, Paylocity), Workday, ADP Workforce Now highly preferred - It´s a plus
• • US benefits experience

About us   We’re a global, 1000-strong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We’re curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you’re not just another employee; you’re part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future. #LI-GG1  

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.