Be the Brains Behind the Benefits!

Ready to take your Benefits career to the next level? We're looking for a Corporate Benefits Manager who's equal parts strategic thinker and benefits guru.

In this exciting and high-impact role, you'll lead the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of a Total Rewards program that includes health and wellness plans, executive perks, workers' compensation, defined-benefit contribution plans, retirement offerings, leave policies, and more. You'll ensure everything runs smoothly, stays compliant, and is communicated in a way employees actually get (and appreciate!).

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee all benefit programs from enrollment to renewal
• Drive strategic initiatives to enhance the employee experience
• Ensure regulatory compliance and accurate reporting
• Lead benefit communications that truly connect with your audience
• Help make the company an Employer of Choice

If you're a data-driven, people-focused, big-picture benefits leader ready to make a real impact—this is your sweet spot. 

Come shape the future of work—one benefit at a time.

Worksite Location: This role is hybrid, but travel to onsite is required. There are two office locations in the Minneapolis metro area. The successful candidate can reside in a western rural suburb or southwest metro.   

Salary Range: $100K - $115K/yr base salary + 20% bonus

Benefits:  Total rewards package for full-time employees emphasizes physical, mental, and social well-being, inclusive of Health Insurance, Dental Coverage, Disability Benefits, and Retirement Plans

Roles & Responsibilities: 

Benefit Administration and Oversight - Provides leadership and supervision for the benefits administration, including: 

• Benefit plan design, modification, implementation, and evaluation.  
• Worker's compensation plan design, implementation, and evaluation.  
• Leave of absence design and implementation, ensuring the administration of Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) provisions, and ensuring the company remains compliant with the COBRA legislation.
• Wellness plan design and implementation, including the Employee Assistance Program.    
• Evaluates current and future benefit and wellness programs by:
• Managing internal and external relationships and partnerships with current and future benefits vendors, insurance brokers, and investment managers. 
• Partnering with the team to conduct proposal requests (RFP) with current and future vendors, ensuring a strategic and competitive approach for benefit and wellness program evaluation and administration.
• Investigating ad hoc benefit offerings or enhancements to benefit provisions based on market trends, benchmarking information, independent or consulted analysis, and employee feedback through mediums such as online surveys and face-to-face discussions.
• Engaging in benefit and wellness plan cost analysis, including

Regulatory Compliance and Reporting - Ensures plans are administered in accordance with federal and state regulations and plan provisions are followed.  Specifically, this position ensures that all reporting requirements and deadlines are met and comply with key federal and state regulations.

• Partners with the HRIS Analyst to compile relevant and required annual statistics and reporting, including non-discrimination testing.
• Leads open enrollment and benefit census reporting annually. 
• Assists the Safety Department in the timely reporting for work-related injuries and illnesses, including supporting the OSHA-300 log.
• Collaborates with the Accounting Department to support annual audits.

Strategic Communication - Serves as an ambassador for all benefit and wellness programs, which include:

• Building and driving communication efforts that proactively engage employees in key benefits programs, including:  healthcare, retirement, and wellness.
• Creating and implementing multi-channel communication strategies, including conducting research and analysis, strategy and media planning, drafting, reviewing, branding, and delivering communication materials.
• Writing, editing, and proofreading print and online communication materials, including key messaging, newsletters, websites, video scripts, and multimedia presentations, to ensure the Total Rewards messaging is clear and concise.
• Participating in benefits utilization studies, analyzing the data, and communicating results to appropriate partners.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field.
• Minimum 5-7 years of experience working with benefits plans, including health and welfare insurance, 401 (k), and pension.
• A broad understanding of general human resource practice
• Knowledge of principles and procedures for benefits and personnel information systems.
• Ability to interpret, apply, and explain federal, state, and local laws, codes, regulations, and proceedings to ensure compliance for benefits programs.
• Ability to evaluate information to determine compliance using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether policies, procedures, and programs comply with laws, regulations, and standards.
• Ability to keep up-to-date with and apply changes to regulations and standards at the company.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills
• Excellent customer service skills
• Strong Microsoft Office skills
• Strong conflict management and resolution skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

About Versique 

Versique: /ver-seek/ adj. being both versatile and unique; n. a high-performance recruiting firm specializing in executive leadership search, direct hire, and interim hiring solutions. 

Versique Executive, Professional, & Interim Recruiting is a locally owned and operated hiring and placement firm based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. With specialized practice areas across our three divisions, Versique delivers tailored expertise to a wide range of industries. What sets us apart is our team of recruiters—seasoned professionals who have worked in the very fields they now hire for, providing unmatched industry insight and connections.

We believe people are more than just resumes—they are transformative, unlocking the potential for organizational growth and success.

Versique is proud to be award-winning, earning recognition on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal's Fast 50 list for 2023. We are also consistently recognized as a Star Tribune Top Workplace and were named a Best Place to Work in 2022 by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

Let's find your people, together.

Versique is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

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