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Los Angeles, CA, US

Denver, CO, US

• Navigating corporate objectives and employee’s needs to offer competitive and innovative health, wealth, and wellbeing benefits in a highly competitive healthcare system.
• Led the benefits team through annual open enrollment activities including presenting design and rate changes to executives for approval, configuring systems, and communicating to 8,000+ hospital system employees.
• Managed the business team efforts to transition the company’s medical plans from a fully insured to a self-insured insurance product.
• Oversaw the integration to the Workday system for Benefits and Payroll to include system configuration, testing, and procedure development for Benefits, LOA, and Wellbeing plans administration.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Lead Benefits Consultant responsible for launching employee benefits for a joint venture medical device company. Solutioning for employee benefits in eleven countries including the United States, Mexico, EMEA and APAC.
• Collaborating with consultants and brokers to implement a suite of global employee benefit programs and services to attract and retain top talent within the competitive Healthcare Technology Industry.
• Managing the execution of benefit plan provider contracts/policies, accounting, and funding infrastructure, and employee transition planning/communications.
• Establishing provider data integrations, invoicing schemes, and business process standards to support the global benefit operations of health, wealth, wellbeing, voluntary, time-away, and workers compensation benefits.

US

• Balanced corporate objectives and employee’s needs to offer competitive and innovative health, wealth, and wellness benefits in a rapidly changing and growing financial services environment.
• Gained approval for a $100M Benefits budget and rolled out unified benefits for 8,000 employees, within 90 days post-merger.
• Formulated and presented benefits strategy and design alternatives to human resource/executive leadership and investment committees.
• Negotiated seventeen new or changed key supplier contracts within 90 days to advance business initiatives and control benefits expense.
• Established and maintained international benefit programs in Australia and Canada.
• Cultivated partnerships with service providers, brokers, consultants, legal, business partners and payroll.

US

• Analytical thinker and corporate steward who collaborated with key business stakeholders to deliver leading-edge benefit products and tools to employee consumers, within budget.
• Influential communicator of complex benefits concepts to business leaders and employees.
• Demonstrated M&A experience in due diligence, benefit plan integrations, plan terminations/mergers and asset integrations including preparation of final plan/government filings.
• Implemented new PTO policies, reducing geographic tracking of carry-over from 17 to 3 regions, and future PTO accruals by over 50%.
• Bolstered retirement plan competitiveness and engagement through, implementing a Safe Harbor 401(k) design and adding Target Retirement Funds and Roth 401(k) contributions.
• Launched change management tools and communications utilizing business partners, managers, and all-employee webinars.

US

• Managed group health, life, disability/LOA, dental, PTO, retirement (defined contribution, defined benefit, and executive deferred compensation), health savings and flexible spending accounts.
• Launched Consumer Directed Health Plans (CDHPs) and implemented a Health Savings Account (HSA) plan to assist employees in managing their healthcare spend after PPACA.
• Provided training and mentoring to benefits and business partner staff and ensured compliance to regulations (PPACA, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, IRC Sec. 125) and corporate/department policies.
• Managed performance and career development for the benefits team.
• Crafted plan guides, notices, and campaigns to communicate the benefits and rights of participation in employee benefit plans.

US

Managed the company's 401(k), pension and non-qualified executive deferred compensation programs.

Neuilly-sur-Seine, FR

Bachelor Of Science, Finance, Real Estate And Insurance

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Business Administration And Management, General