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    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.

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    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. 

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    Global benefits Center of Excellence (CoE)

    Your CoE spends more time collecting data than setting strategy.

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    Benefits shared services

    You moved the work into shared services, but not the data. Every task still starts with a spreadsheet.

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    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.

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    Global benefits inventory

    Every plan in every country in one place, so there's one answer to “what do we offer where?”

    Monitor dashboards
    Vendor and contact records
    Statutory benefits
    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.

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    Local and shared services teams answer their own plan, cost and vendor questions, so fewer land on the center.
    Portfolio or country view
    Benefit comparison
    Embedded insights
    GOVERNANCE · RUN IT

    The same renewal workflow in every market

    One way of running renewals everywhere, with central oversight and local decisions kept local.

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    Renewals workflows
    Tasks, decisions and approval gates, so every market runs renewals the same way.
    Default renewal workflow
    Audit trail
    Scoped access

    What this looks like in practice

    How benefits teams running different operating models use Origin today. 

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

    What is a benefits operating model?

    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.

    Do we need to change our operating model to use Origin?
    Can a benefits CoE govern more countries without hiring?
    Does Origin work with a decentralized benefits model?
    Does Origin replace our HRIS?

    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.

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