Summary
Description
Position Title: Manager, Total Rewards
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Department: Global Human Resources
Location: Washington, DC – Hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in the office)
Salary Range: $68,000 – $85,000 – $102,000
Contact: Corus International, Global Talent Acquisition, hrhq@corusinternational.org
Corus International provides a competitive, growth-oriented, yet fiscally responsible compensation program. When determining an offer for employment, multiple factors are considered including relevant years of experience, education, skills, internal equity, and budget. Our overall approach is to target the minimum to midpoint for starting salaries, based on these factors.
Additionally, Corus provides a comprehensive and competitive employee benefit package to protect our valued and dedicated staff and their families. Our benefits include three medical plan options with comprehensive prescription drug coverage, low-cost dental coverage with 100% paid vision insurance. Corus also provides a generous retirement plan and PTO to include vacation, sick, holiday, parental, jury, international travel, and bereavement leave; employer-sponsored basic life/AD&D insurance; employee wellness incentives, and employee work/life balance and assistance programs.
Position Summary:
The Manager, Total Rewards (Manager) plays an essential role in supporting the organization's strategies designed to attract, motivate and retain talent. The Manager is responsible for designing, implementing and managing Corus' total rewards approach, with a focus on benefits programs and compensation administration. This position will collaborate with other Global HR team members to design and implement effective benefits and compensation programs and provide needed guidance and thought-partnership, as needed. The Manager will also maintain and track HR data and analytics by using people-related technology systems to produce accurate and timely reports. Lastly, the Manager will stay abreast of best practices and trends with a mind toward program, policy and process improvement.
Responsibilities:
Benefits
- Manages all US employee benefit programs including health, life, AD&D, long & short term disability (LTD/STD), workers compensation, retirement plans: 403(b) and 457(b), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), transit benefits, leave benefits, COBRA, and other ancillary benefits to include international benefits for expats and third country nationals, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and industry standards; assists employees with enrollments, changes, and other benefits-related needs.
- Tracks all forms of employee leaves of absence usage, to include FMLA, STD, LTD, and DCPFL; serve as primary point of contact for staff needing to take a leave of absence; work with staff to inform them of leave benefits and ensure all forms are submitted, reviewed, and approved in a timely manner.
- Serves as the primary liaison with insurance carriers, benefits brokers and vendors; stays abreast of benefits trends; and recommends process improvements and/or plan design changes to enhance current benefits.
- Reconciles monthly invoices, verify calculations, and ensures prompt accurate payment to vendors to include resolving administrative problems.
- Works closely with payroll to process accurate benefits and retirement deductions; conducts regular quality control checks to ensure alignment.
- Leads the annual 5500 audits for health and wellness and retirement plans, performing needed plan testing and making needed adjustments throughout the year.
- Ensures plan documents are accurate and filed/communicated appropriately throughout the year.
- Leads the internal retirement plan committee in coordination with the retirement plan advisor.
- Manages the annual Open Enrollment (OE) process including HRIS self-service design and testing, OE communication, training, and audit of OE data; updates benefits plan summary guides and SharePoint site to reflect changes to benefits offered.
- Develops and maintains updated benefits materials and conducts new employee benefits orientation.
- Assists in the exit process of employees to include calculating final benefits and timely termination of benefits.
- Drafts appropriate benefits-related correspondence.
- Advises country offices on benefit offerings as needed.
Compensation
- Works with the Senior Director on the analysis and administration of compensation for US and internationally assigned staff; evaluates internal equity, external competitiveness, and legal compliance of the organization's compensation practices.
- Reviews new or modified position descriptions and performs job analyses to determine classification, market value, salary range, and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) status.
- Ensures compensation programs are consistently administered across the organization.
- Manages annual compensation programs/projects such as performance increases, bonuses and special market adjustments. Prepares and issues staff compensation adjustment/bonus letters.
- Participates in salary surveys to obtain competitive market information to maintain equitable and competitive pay practices.
- Responds to and submits employment verifications.
Data Analysis and Reporting
- Works closely with Payroll and IT to ensure that people-related systems are effectively meeting the needs of HR and organization; identify and recommend areas for system improvements and changes; provides quality control of benefits data using ADP, payroll change notices, system audits, etc.
- Updates salary and benefits changes via the HR/payroll system.
- Uses HR systems and reporting tools to review, monitor and produce accurate HR data, reports & metrics; prepare presentations, dashboards and other documents as directed; and utilize HR metrics and analytics to assess the effectiveness of total rewards programs.
- Produces standard and ad-hoc reports to include required government reporting.
Supervisory:
- There are no direct reports.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field with at least five (5) years' experience in compensation and benefits administration and program development and design, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Extensive experience directly managing a wide range of employee benefits functions, preferably in a global and/or non-profit environment; experience working closely with benefits vendors and service providers; and high comfort with benefits-related technologies.
- Experience with broad compensation management to include job classification and leveling, conducting market reviews, and benchmarking compensation data.
- Experience with Federal and local benefit laws and managing paid family leave.
- Experience tracking and maintaining HR data and metrics and producing accurate and timely reports.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of relevant federal, multi-state and local regulations as they pertain to benefits and compensation; strong knowledge of filing and compliance requirements affecting employee benefit programs, including LTD/STD management, COBRA, ERISA, HIPAA, FMLA, IRS codes, etc.
- Possess a high level of interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity to interact globally with all levels of staff; excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively communicate with internal and external clients.
- Possess strong analytical skills, detail-orientation, data management, and project management skills.
- Ability to formally present and convey complex benefits, compensation and/or compliance regulations to staff.
- Ability to apply discretion and maintain confidentiality.
- Advanced skills and/or competencies working with HR technology (ADP is a plus), Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Other Duties:
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities for the position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. All positions are required to perform any additional tasks assigned by the supervisor. Global positions that are bound by contracts will not be changed without notice and approval.
Working Conditions, Travel and Environment
- Corus has a hybrid work policy, allowing work to be done remotely; two days per week (Tuesday and Wednesday) in the office is required. The employee must be available to work outside normal office hours or weekends as required.
- This position must be able to travel as required for standard domestic business purposes.
- Must have authorization to work in the country of assignment.
