BENEFITS OPERATING MODEL
The data foundation your benefits operating model is missing.
Center of Excellence, shared services or local: Origin™ brings every plan, vendor and cost into one place, without changing how you work.
Common benefits operating model challenges
Whatever the model, benefits data sits across vendors, insurers, spreadsheets and email. When an experienced person leaves, much of what they know leaves with them.
Global benefits Center of Excellence (CoE)
Your CoE spends more time collecting data than setting strategy.
Benefits shared services
You moved the work into shared services, but not the data. Every task still starts with a spreadsheet.
Decentralized and local benefits teams
Local teams make great decisions. But when the board asks for a group view, nobody can produce the number quickly.
VISIBILITY · SEE IT
One global benefits inventory
Every plan, vendor and cost in one structured view, so no task starts with a data request.
Every plan in every country in one place, so there's one answer to “what do we offer where?”
INTELLIGENCE · DECIDE IT
Answers and comparisons across every market
The center sets policy on evidence, and routine questions stop landing on a small central team.
GOVERNANCE · RUN IT
The same renewal workflow in every market
One way of running renewals everywhere, with central oversight and local decisions kept local.
What this looks like in practice
How benefits teams running different operating models use Origin today.
LOCAL AND REGIONAL BENEFITS TEAMS
13 local plans became one regional plan
A global pharma company had 13 local insurance policies across one region, each managed separately. With every policy in one place, the team replaced them with a single regional plan. Cost per employee fell by 20%, and 40+ hours of work were removed in the first year.
GLOBAL BENEFITS COE
A leadership request answered in 30 minutes, not days
When the Chief Legal Officer and Treasury asked for detail on a benefits policy, the global rewards team answered in about 30 minutes. Before Origin, the same request would have taken three to four days.
INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE
Nothing was lost when a colleague left
When a benefits colleague left a global software company, the documents she managed were in her personal storage, out of reach. Because the data was already in Origin, the team kept moving. "Having this data in Origin really helps us to move quickly."
"…shift from being reactive and spending our time pulling information together to being proactive and more strategic."
Global Benefits Lead, global pharma company
Benefits operating model
FAQs
A benefits operating model is how an organization divides its benefits work: who sets strategy and standards, who runs renewals and vendor management, and who makes local decisions. Most multinationals use a global Center of Excellence, a shared services center, local country teams, or a mix of all three.
No. Origin fits the model you already run. You choose which markets and processes move onto Origin, and when.
A platform adds capacity, so a small central team can govern more countries.
Yes. Local teams can keep their vendors, timelines and decisions, with read-only access to their own countries. Origin adds a shared view above them, so leadership can answer the board.
See how Origin supports your benefits operating model.
Start with one priority, such as a CoE, a renewal cycle or one region, and build from there.