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Hebrew SeniorLife · 1 day ago

Director, Employee Benefits and Wellbeing

Boston, MA

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$100K/yr - $181K/yr

8+ years exp

Hebrew SeniorLife is seeking a Director, Employee Benefits and Wellbeing to lead the development and administration of benefits and well-being programs. This role involves partnering with leadership to create competitive strategies, managing benefit programs, and ensuring compliance while fostering an inclusive environment.

Health Care

Culture & Values

Responsibilities

Partner with leadership to define, develop, communicate, and execute a competitive strategy that includes employee benefit programs, well-being benefits, retirement benefits, paid time off programs, and other reward and recognition programs, that is cost effective and aligned with trends in the market and organizational objectives

Manage the design of group life, medical, dental, disability, accident, critical illness and other ancillary benefit programs to assure alignment to company business objectives and external market-competitiveness

Partners with Occupational Health Services in the administration of leave of absence policy creation and administration

Ensure that HSL’s strategy is aligned with and supports the vision of a more inclusive and diverse community

As a subject matter expert propose, design and implement industry best practices and lead effective, competitive, inclusive and fair benefits and well-being programs

Provide strategic day-to-day leadership to the Benefits and well-being team, including coaching, motivating and providing opportunities for development

Ensures staff is knowledgeable about programs and are following all federal, state, and local legal requirements. Foster a collaborative, value-driven team culture of high standards, strong productivity, and innovation

Conduct and analyze internally and externally the effectiveness of existing executive and staff benefit and well-being programs and policies and practices to inform the program direction in the future. Intentional focus on developing internal talent through coaching, mentoring, influencing, and advocating

Manages execution and implementation of initiatives using status, milestones, risk, and quality key performance indicators (KPIs) and other success measures. Facilitates meetings with stakeholders to track and report on deliverable progress and to identify and mitigate risks. Monitor the impact to budget and advise the organization appropriately

Manages relationships with vendors, brokers, and carriers, including monitoring service levels, costs, utilization, and other metrics to ensure a positive employee experience and value to the organization

Partners with benefit broker to understand market trends and assess, design, and refine HSL’s total rewards strategy to ensure HSL is well positioned competitively to attract and retain talent

Develops strategy for communication and education about benefit programs across HSL

Manages compliance requirements including, but not limited to, ERISA, FMLA, COBRA, HIPAA, ACA, Form 5500 filings, OSHA, nondiscrimination testing, and audits utilizing established vendors

Leads continuous improvement of processes and procedures to drive efficiencies, reduce manual processes, and improve the employee experience

Partners with other functions in areas such as legal, finance, risk management, and Occupational Health, to build new programs, manage risk to the organization, and understand legal implications to policy or design changes

Work closely with Benefits team and Compensation team overseeing and refining the process for handling benefits and earned time related to LOAs

Qualification

Employee Benefits ManagementWell-being Program DesignCompliance KnowledgeLeadership ExperienceCertified Employee Benefit SpecialistHuman Capital Management SystemsAnalytical SkillsCoaching SkillsCommunication SkillsTeam Player

Required

8 to 10 years of relevant experience required

Bachelor's Degree required

Extensive knowledge of employee benefits and well-being program experience required

Thorough understanding of benefit and wellness plan design and management

Experience with implementation and communication of employee benefit and wellbeing programs

A proven history of influencing senior leadership with a combination of deep subject matter expertise, relationship-building abilities, and a passion to create competitive, equitable and inclusive programs that contribute to a great company culture

Experience in leading large-scale projects with heavy change management requirements

Demonstrated experience building and coaching a high performing and engaged team, as well as working cross-functionally with key dependencies in other departments

Ability to work with confidential information with high levels of discretion

Strong team player and servant-leadership approach to working with the community

Thorough knowledge of State and Federal wage and hours laws, including, but not limited to, FLSA, FMLA, PFML, ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, ADA, Section 125, and Workers' Compensation

Experience with administering defined contribution plans

Experience with implementing and working with Human Capital Management Systems

Strong analytical and quantitative skills

Strong written and oral communication skills with attention to detail and the ability to communicate tactfully across all levels within the organization