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This position is responsible for managing the organization's employee benefits program including but not limited to group medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) and related coverages. Interfacing with consultants, vendors, and others as necessary. The supervision of the Benefits Department teammates.
• Proactively work to reduce costs, improve or enhance benefits program to increase teammate satisfaction or improve processes to increase customer satisfaction, to support company goals.
• Supervise the funding, reporting, auditing and reconciliation process of health and welfare and retirement programs. This includes the payment of invoices, and budget preparation.
• Provide fiduciary responsibility over all plans including review and response to all plan appeals.
• Lead and manage projects, provide direction on company benefit strategies, establish priorities and manage multiple priorities.
• Provide direction to and manage relationships with several third-party vendors and broker.
• Remain current on legislative and IRS changes relative to plan regulations and procedure to ensure compliance.
• Ensure all plan documents and summary plan descriptions are current, correct, in compliance and distributed.
• Implement smooth transitions to new benefit programs.
• Develop or contribute to the development of teammate communications.
• Provide direction of subsidiary benefit plans, and integration of their teammates into the company plan, where applicable.
• Manage and enhance each year the open enrollment process.
• Lead a team of four teammates ensuring each team member receives development opportunities.
• Communicate well with all levels of the organization, including Executive Leadership.
• Manage the annual benefit planning process and make recommendations to executive team.
Qualifications:
• Must have bachelor's degree
• 5 years’ experience in benefits.
• Have leadership abilities, can communicate both verbal and written, have a professional attitude and appearance, a highly organized individual with a strong self-confidence, multi-task oriented decision maker who can plan for success.
• Have strong MS Office skills including Word and Excel. PowerPoint will be useful;
• PeopleSoft experience preferred.
• Must be willing to travel as requested.
• Must have large company experience