Health & Welfare Strategy Leader (Remote)

Company: Albertsons Companies
Location: Austin
Posted on: June 23, 2022

Job Description:

What you will be doingThe Senior Manager, Benefits -- Health & Welfare Strategy plays a vital role in ensuring we deliver a best-in-class package to our 300,000 team members. In concert with the VP, Benefits, this exciting role manages the health and welfare vendors and plans, develops innovative programs targeted to mitigate chronic conditions, and creates strategies to proactively address health trends. This is a key strategy role on the benefits team.We are looking for a candidate with strong, corporate Benefit Strategy experience.This role will be based near one of our divisional offices: Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Pleasanton, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Boise, ID, Phoenix, AZ, Dallas, TX, Denver, CO, Chicago, IL, Philadelphia, PA or Boston, MA.Core responsibilities:

• Acts as subject matter expert for a set of vendors/plans; able to understand and clearly articulate claims trends, develop strategies for cost mitigation, analyze current patterns of program usage to evaluate effectiveness, ensure adherence to contracts.
• Supports the benefits function in the strategic design, evaluation, implementation and on-going management of health and welfare programs initiatives, including analyzing current patterns of program usage to evaluate their effectiveness from a cost, process efficiency, and utility to the associate perspective.
• Manage and ensure adherence to vendor contracts, develop performance guarantees (PGs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and manage RFPs, RFIs, market checks and audits.
• Act in a consulting-type relationship with internal/external partners to share knowledge, drive strategy decisions, and make recommendations.
• Specific expertise in medical and Rx plan management, driving recommendations based on thorough understanding of current data analytics and findings.
• In partnership with Corporate Communications, develop editorial calendar to communicate benefits to associates using various methods of communication to drive engagement; may write and edit content. May create and lead benefit education webinars.
• Work closely with data analytics partners to understand trends to predict future needs.
• Provides recommendations to management for plan or provision modification or expansion. May identify a new benefit that would support the overall goals and objectives of the benefits function.
• Evaluates status of current programs to identify cost-savings and to ensure employee satisfaction.
• Manage and review program metrics and ROI results. Make plan recommendations based on results.
• Lead other ad-hoc projects and perform other responsibilities as required.We believe the successful candidate has these qualifications and experience:
  • Bachelor's degree required. Relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience is also acceptable
  • 5-7 years' benefits strategy experience. Specific PBM knowledge a plus.Our Full Job Description Will Be Made Available.What it is like at Albertsons?Albertsons Culture PrinciplesCompassion: We always treat each other with kindness and respectTeam: We always support and recognize each otherInclusive: We always value everyone's perspectiveLearning: We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and othersCompetitive: We always act with integrity to win over the customerOwnership: We always take actions to drive our success

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