Manager Benefits

• Closing date: 10-Sep-2025

About the Role

An exciting opportunity to join the Qatar Airways HR - Compensation and Benefits team as Manager Benefits. This role will be responsible to oversee the design, implementation, and governance of global benefits programs, including retirement, medical, wellbeing, and other offerings, ensuring alignment with QR Group’s Total Rewards strategy. Also, responsible to drive initiatives that enhance employee experience and satisfaction, ensuring transparency, competitiveness, and compliance across all geographies to support employee attraction, retention and development.

Your duties would include:

• Define and continuously refine strategic scope of global benefits programs, including retirement, medical, wellness, and other offerings, ensuring alignment with QRG’s total rewards philosophy and evolving workforce needs.

• Design and implement KPIs and success metrics for all benefits programs, enabling data-driven evaluation of program effectiveness, employee experience, cost-efficiency.

• Lead comprehensive reviews and benchmarking of benefits offerings across all geographies, identifying gaps, emerging trends, and opportunities to enhance competitiveness, equity, and value.

• Shape long-term benefits roadmap by integrating internal analytics, external market intelligence, and employee feedback to inform strategic decisions and future program design.

• Collaborate with senior HR and business leaders to ensure benefits strategy supports organizational goals, talent attraction and retention, and global compliance.

• Manage end-to-end delivery of global benefits programs, enabling consistency, compliance, and operational excellence across all regions.

• Ensure transparent communication of benefits policies and program changes across the organization, providing timely updates on scope and eligibility for employees through accessible channels to support employee understanding and engagement.

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders (e.g., Compensation and Benefits, HR Systems, Finance) to ensure seamless execution of benefits processes and accurate data flow.

• Monitor regulatory changes across jurisdictions and ensure timely updates to benefits programs and documentation to maintain legal compliance.

• Oversee vendor relationships, including contract management, service level monitoring, and issue resolution, to ensure high-quality delivery of benefits services.

• Support annual benefits cycles, including renewals, open enrollment, and audits, ensuring timelines, accuracy, and employee support are maintained.

• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to track program utilization, cost trends, and employee feedback, enabling continuous improvement and informed decision-making.

• Set up frameworks for responses, queries and cases, ensuring resolution is timely, and aligned with policies and procedures.

• Contribute to Total Rewards transformation initiatives, ensuring benefits operations are aligned with broader Compensation and OD strategies.

Be part of an extraordinary story

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

Together, everything is possible.

We are looking for a passionate and experienced professional to join our HR - Compensation and Benefits team. The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent with Minimum 8 years of job-related experience

• Relevant experience in benefits, including medical, retirement etc.

• Expertise in benefits, including knowledge of current market trends

• Data-driven mindset with experience and ability to interpret date and derive actionable recommendations

• Experience in benefits benchmarking activities, including knowledge of benefits survey tools

• Regulatory knowledge and experience, esp. with focus major compensation related laws in Qatar, European Union and the US

About Qatar Airways Group:

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. So, whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.

How to Apply

If you are interested to submit your application and feel you are a good fit for this role, please complete our application form and upload your CV for our review and consideration.