Benefits Manager Us - New York, United States - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Description
Job Title:
Benefits Manager US and Canada
Salary:
$74,200-$94,000 USD
Location:
Remote or Hybrid, New York
Contract:
Full time, permanent
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
We're searching for a benefit's professional to provide internal support and to administer the Cambridge University Press and Assessment (CUP&A/Cambridge) employee benefits programme, for the US and Canada.
Serving as an internal consultant and expert on benefit practices and processes, including retirement plans, leave policies, wellness programs, and insurance policies such as health, life, and disability.
About the role
As the organisation's expert in US benefits and reward related practices and legislation, review, design and broker the benefits offering, selecting benefits vendors and overseeing enrolment, renewal, and delivery.
Communication of these benefits and encouraging engagement and understanding throughout a Cambridge's employees journey from onboarding onwards. Setting up and managing awareness programmes, including pension clinics and wider benefits seminars
The position holds a number of key relationships both internally and external and requires excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
About you
- Selfsufficient with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team, including the ability to build close working relationships with a large number of individuals across the organisation and external providers.
- Bachelor's degree or beyond from an accredited college or university in human resources, finance, tax, or accounting.
- Good working knowledge of legislation as it relates to benefits.
- Strong analytical skills and understanding of retirement and benefit concepts and problemsolving skills, to assess, identify problems and develop corrective procedure.
- Demonstrated experience with auditing, and process design, where attention to detail is critical.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple health and welfare plans, through good vendor management skills, utilizing broker services.
- Strong absence management experience with the ability to research and keep updated on ever changing legislation and making proactive recommendation for changes to policies and processes.
- Experience in working in an environment with HR Shared Services and partnering with various stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, adjusting information as needed for various audiences.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it.
In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- Group personal volunteer retirement scheme (403b)
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Private medical, dental, vision insurance for individuals and families, plus supplemental insurances
- Green travel schemes
- 25 days annual leave, bank holidays and summer fridays
We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
- _Why join us
- Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. _
- Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet. _
