mistral.ai - Benefits Manager

• Own benefits strategy end-to-end across our countries, including enrollment, renewals, changes, and offboarding, ensuring reliable issue resolution and compliance. • Drive benefits strategy by benchmarking market competitiveness, proposing local adjustments, and recommending offerings in line with our Total Rewards strategy. • Manage brokers, insurers, and benefits vendors: lead RFPs and renewals, negotiate cost-quality trade-offs, and enforce service level agreements. • Ensure compliance with local benefits, insurance, and social-security regulations in all operating jurisdictions, proactively adapting practices and flagging evolving risks in cooperation with Legal. • Design and enhance benefits processes and policies to be clear, scalable, and well-documented; lead impactful improvement projects as the company scales. • Leverage data to inform decisions by maintaining high-quality benefits data, building reporting and KPIs (such as cost per employee, participation, utilization, satisfaction), and translating insights into actionable recommendations. • Own the employee experience of benefits by delivering clear, empathetic communications during enrollment and life events and sensitively handling situations such as illness, family changes, or loss. • Partner with Finance for benefits budgeting and forecasting, and collaborate with HR Ops and payroll to ensure deductions and contributions are accurate and timely. • Serve as a key contributor on Mobility, working closely with cross-functional groups to keep our immigration and mobility offerings compliant and competitive.