Benefits Role

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We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways. 

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VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BENEFITS

(USA - Remote/Hybrid)

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is the trusted partner to more than 240,000 customers in 61 countries, including 95% of the Fortune 1000.  Our solutions across information management, data centers, media, and IT asset management help organizations seamlessly manage digital and physical assets of all kinds across their lifecycle—unlocking more value with unparalleled security, governance, and sustainability at every step.

Every day, organizations generate more: content, data, devices, documents, archives, and digital artifacts, adding complexity, not clarity.  Most of it remains unseen, underused, and untrusted, scattered across systems or lost in storage.  In a world defined by speed and AI, progress doesn’t come from more information but from unlocking the value in what already exists.

At Iron Mountain, we believe information has power when it’s protected, connected, and activated.  And we’ve been building on this belief for 75 years as the trusted steward of the world’s most valuable assets.  We help organizations of all sizes seamlessly manage their digital and physical assets across their lifecycle, making them visible, secure, accessible, and AI-ready.

From payments to pathology, mortgages to media, fine art to IT, we are the trusted partner to 95% of the Fortune 1000 to unlock the value from what’s already within reach—transforming information into intelligence and assets into advantage.

Now, what can we unlock together?  For 75 years, our legacy has been Built on Trust and Driven by Innovation.  Our people are our greatest asset, and we commit to investing in your well-being, growth, and professional development every day.  Explore your ambition and potential with Iron Mountain - let’s unlock the power of your career together.

The Opportunity

The Vice President, Global Benefits is a high-impact leadership role responsible for the strategic vision, financial optimization, and operational delivery of a comprehensive global benefits portfolio. Managing an annual spend exceeding $200M in 60+ countries, this leader will oversee health and welfare, retirement, wellbeing programs and benefits administration for a diverse, international workforce.

Reporting to SVP, Global Head of Total Rewards, the successful candidate will lead a multi-year global transformation of the benefits operating model—transitioning from a localized, approach to a centralized, scalable framework. This role requires a sophisticated blend of financial acumen, executive-level storytelling, and the ability to drive operational excellence in a high-growth, complex multi-national environment.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Strategic Global Leadership & Governance

• Global Operating Model Transformation: Lead the end-to-end execution of a multi-year, three-phase strategic roadmap to transition the organization from a regional approach to a centralized, high-performance global delivery model that scales with business growth.

• Total Rewards Integration: Align the global benefits strategy with the broader Total Rewards philosophy to ensure market competitiveness and support for the company’s high-growth talent needs.

• Global Governance: Establish a global governance committee with oversight of benefit design, compliance across 60+ countries.

2. Financial Stewardship & Data Analytics

• Strategic ROI: Drive a long-term financial strategy to optimize spend, targeting significant savings through global benefit pooling, strategic renewals, and centralized financial tracking.

• Executive & Board Communication: Act as a key advisor to the C-Suite, developing data-driven analytics, rewards recommendations, and high-impact slide decks for executive decision-making.

• Risk Mitigation: Proactively manage global healthcare inflation and regulatory risks through sophisticated modeling and vendor management.

3. Operational Transformation & Scalability

• Service Excellence: Oversee the build-out of the global benefits administration team to improve service delivery and global operational efficiency.

• Digital Transformation: Evaluate and implement global third-party administration technology to move toward automated data flows and enhanced reporting capabilities.

4. Global Program Design & Wellbeing

• Talent Attraction: Ensure benefit offerings are competitive for a diverse workforce, from frontline operations to corporate leadership, particularly in high-growth international markets.

• Mental Health & Support: Advance the global wellbeing agenda, addressing critical needs for mental health support and work-life balance through innovative program design.

• Communication: Drive a "One-Company" communication strategy that empowers employees to make informed benefit choices and enhances the employer value proposition.

5. Team Leadership & Global Management

• Leadership: Provide direct management and mentorship to a global team of professionals across Strategy, Design, and Benefits Administration.

• Regional Oversight: Provide leadership to regional leads in North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC, ensuring high performance and local compliance.

The Ideal Candidate Characteristics & Credentials

• Experience: 15+ years of progressive HR/Total Rewards leadership experience, with at least 5-7 years in a global benefits leadership role for (30k+ employees).

• Transformation Expertise: Proven track record of leading large-scale operating model transformations or HR globalizations in a complex, multi-national environment.

• Financial Acumen: Deep expertise in global benefit pooling, captive arrangements, and sophisticated cost-projection modeling.

• Executive Presence: Exceptional ability to synthesize complex financial and benefits data into compelling narratives for the C-Suite and Board of Directors.

• Global Perspective: Strong cultural competency and experience navigating the regulatory and benefit landscapes across multiple countries.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, or Finance; MBA or relevant professional certifications (e.g., CEBS) preferred.

You may know Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) as a leader in information management and storage solutions. We also are a transformative force with a proud legacy of safeguarding and optimizing the value of our clients' assets. We’re rewriting our 75-year history every day, expanding our services to meet our customers’ evolving needs, empowering them to thrive in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

We provide comprehensive solutions, from physical records storage and data backup to information management, digital transformation, and secure data center space for colocation and hyperscale deployments. 

Our expertise helps organizations manage rising storage costs, ensure compliance, support disaster recovery, and maintain uninterrupted IT operations.  Iron Mountain’s growth in digitization is driven by strategic investments, while we continue leading in paper storage, retrieval, and secure destruction. 

Trusted by highly regulated industries, customers choose us for our proven performance, secure chain of custody, data protection, and commitment to sustainability — all backed by decades of reliable results and strong customer relationships.

We invite passionate individuals to join us on this journey of innovation, where we turn challenges into opportunities and set new benchmarks for excellence and agility. Your path to making a meaningful impact starts here in our culture of excellence and wellbeing.