Director - Employee Benefits (Hybrid)

Description & Requirements

The Director, Employee Benefits leads and directs all of our benefits programs here at Maximus.

In this role, you will report to the Sr.

Vice President Total Rewards and work collaboratively across our HR Team.

This role is responsible for contributing towards and driving a total rewards strategy that supports a culture of high performance to attract, reward, and retain top talent.

This role is pivotal to the embodiment of our core values which include; respect, compassion, innovation, accountability, collaboration, and customer focus.

The Director, Employee Benefit provides strategic leadership over all programs leveraging best practices to enhance employee experience, efficiency, and compliance.

This role requires a proactive approach to communication, follow-up, and delivering compassionate, timely, accurate responses, particularly within the Benefits department.

The ideal candidate will excel in fostering a "employee first", responsive environment to address and fulfill the needs of our staff effectively.

Candidates must reside in the DC Metro area and be willing to work out of the office a few days a week.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Delivers compassion and displays empathy when working with employees and managers on benefits related issues.

- Responsible for the development of a team of benefits professionals, with clear and mutually agreed upon career paths, and enabling them to reach milestones and succeed.

- Designs, manages and implements employee benefits, leave and retirement programs, policies, and administrative procedures that are market competitive, cost effective and legally compliant.

- Develops and manages effective working relationships with benefit program vendors and advisors to ensure accountability for delivering effective programs to employee population that yield desired results.

- Collaborates with the Total Rewards and Employee Wellbeing teams to ensure vendors are managed, programs are in sync and ensure a seamless employee experience.

- Ensures effective governance and administration of programs, including the administration of an SCA and ACA compliant VEBA trust.

- Proactively reviews programs and policies to ensure effectiveness, accuracy and compliance on a regular basis.

- Holds vendors accountable for delivering digital technology to support employee benefit programs and deliver increasingly effective and efficient outcomes.

- Leverages analytics to produce reports for Sr.

Management to measure effectiveness of programs and vendors on a regular basis.

- Focuses on the communication of the employee value proposition and all related programs and activities that support it, through successful and compelling communications program to drive higher adoption and understanding or all EVP health and wellness programs: including benefits open enrollment, new or revised program launches, new hire orientation, intranet content and distribution of required notices and ...