• Responsible for analyzing organizational benefits performance, reporting, market trends and conditions and recommending changes to ensure the overall benefit program(s) are competitive • Provide recommendations based on gap analysis, benchmarking and trends regarding the strategic design, development and administration of plans • Assist the Benefits Leader with any changes or additions to the benefit programs as a direct result of legislative mandatory changes, management decisions, cost effective modifications to the plans or plan design changes to affect a timely and well documented communicated change • Responsible for vendor management as assigned • This includes but is not limited to facilitating regularly scheduled meetings, completing initiatives timely, proactively setting expectations and managing vendor(s) to those expectations as well as a vendor scorecard/dashboard mechanism • Responsible for full cycle implementations as assigned • Creating, managing and ensuring project(s) meet deadlines and objectives for a successful implementation and overall experience for team members • Responsible for leading and completing enrollment and conversion initiatives as assigned • This includes understanding all plan design changes and how it will impact team members and working with the vendors on updating processes that would be impacted by design changes • Escalating issues when appropriate and managing decisions within scope • Assist with completing analysis in data warehouse and compare data to vendor reporting as needed • Has the ability to identify discrepancies, create charts to illustrate findings, and can provide detailed and in-depth rationale about the findings and analysis • Responsible for reviewing and compiling reports in Microsoft Excel • This includes but is not limited to the ability to run pivot tables, V-lookups, charts, graphs, and analyze large amounts of data • Key liaison for more complex benefit assignments; providing guidance and education to team members, Finance, Treasury, Legal and site HR and consultants related to the interpretation and administration of the benefit program policies and procedures • Provides recommendations and content changes as the subject matter expert to various communication materials, such as newsletters, slide shows, video programs and other written forms of team member communication to increase knowledge of how the benefit programs work