East Tennessee Children's Hospital · 2 hours ago
Manager- Total Rewards Full Time Days
Knoxville, TN
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expEast Tennessee Children's Hospital is dedicated to providing compassionate care, and they are seeking a Manager of Total Rewards to oversee the organization's compensation and benefit plans. The role involves managing and supporting the design of compensation models, ensuring compliance, and improving HR systems and processes.
Health CareHospitalNon Profit
Responsibilities
Proficiently directs the responsibilities that encompass a successful and effective compensation and benefit program for the organization. This includes, all health and welfare plans, pension, life, voluntary benefits, etc
Seeks and maintains the most current knowledge and understanding for their area of responsibilities
Demonstrates commitment to investing in HR systems and Reward programs and their processes that support our business needs, improve efficiency and put decision making, accountability and rewards in the hands of employees and managers
Leads strategy to drive automation for all HR functions as much as possible and approved
Supports cross-functional process improvements across the HR team that increase and customer service and satisfaction
Provides necessary training, training guides and ongoing support to internal HR team
Actively participates in the New Employee Orientation and Leadership On-Boarding process for all new employees and new leaders in their department/unit
Effectively leads and participates in the performance management of staff
Accomplished ability to partner with outside vendors, managing their services so that we get the most ROI out of the contract
Creative abilities to create training, enrollment and other publications and materials internally with support from Marketing
Plans are based upon strategic goals of the Hospital, financial position of the Hospital, employer of choice objective, presenting a positive image to the public, legal requirements, and employee feedback
Designs ongoing monitoring processes to assure consistency, controls and compliance for being met through all of the reward programs
Utilizes hospital resources and time respectfully and accountably
Willingly accepts any other assignment that may be requested
Qualification
Required
Bachelors Degree required; Masters preferred
Degree in related field
Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) or other combination of comparable World at Work certifications, is preferred
3-5 years of experience in leading an organization's function of compensation, benefits (including retirement plans) and the human resources information systems that support those programs; at least 2 years of leadership experience is required
Expert knowledge of compensation, benefits, and applicable regulatory compliance
Demonstrated knowledge and capability to manage and support the design of compensation models and establishing pay ranges
Must display strong self initiative and demonstrated ability of analytical skills and accomplished project management
Strong experience with conducting market survey analysis to make sound recommendations on competitive pay practices
Comprehensive knowledge with HRIS systems, Microsoft Office suite including Excel, Word and Power Point required
In depth work experience or knowledge of fully funded and self insured benefit plans and incentive compensation programs
Practitioner of total rewards concept- including employee appreciation, work/life experience, etc
Company
East Tennessee Children's Hospital
East Tennessee Children's Hospital is a comprehensive pediatric hospital providing compassionate care to children and their families.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Matt C. Schaefer, MBA
President & Chief Executive Officer
Caryn Hawthorne
Vice President - Finance / CFO
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