Senior Manager, Benefits

🕒 5 days ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $125k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Macmillan

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1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

📚 Education

Media • Education

Macmillan is a leading global publishing company and home to a wide range of imprints that publish adult and children’s fiction, nonfiction, and educational materials. Part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Macmillan also operates Macmillan Learning and Macmillan Education, providing interactive course solutions, higher education content, language learning, and school curriculum publishing across dozens of countries. The company focuses on supporting authors, educators, students, and institutions with world-class content and digital learning tools.

📋 Description

• Develop and evolve benefits strategy supporting talent attraction, retention, and total rewards • Conduct benchmarking and market analysis for plan design, funding, and policy decisions • Partner with brokers and Communications on benefits branding and materials • Build and manage strategic relationships with benefits vendors and stakeholders • Monitor vendor performance and service-level compliance • Lead vendor RFPs, selection, and contract negotiations • Coordinate retirement plan governance meetings, agendas, records, and minutes • Monitor regulations and advise leadership on compliance risks and mitigation • Translate benefits data and process performance into leadership recommendations • Manage and coach the benefits administrator and part-time benefits coordinator • Serve as escalation point for complex eligibility, claims, and vendor issues • Maintain documentation and process guides • Support HRIS and benefits-platform automation initiatives • Evaluate automation tools, workflows, and system enhancements • Direct project management and communications for Open Enrollment, flu shot clinics, and regulatory updates • Plan targeted wellness events and ensure responsive, knowledgeable, and empathetic support

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in benefits management, spanning benefits strategy/plan design and hands-on program administration • Experience in benefits or a related field at a mid- to large-size employer • Ability to develop benefits strategy, including market benchmarking and plan design • Working knowledge of benefits compliance and regulatory requirements • Understanding of benefits administration systems, file feeds, and integration technologies • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills • Bachelor's degree required • CEBS, CBP, and SHRM designations are a plus • Prior benefits brokerage experience is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits strategy and total rewards program involvement • Retirement plan oversight • Wellness events, including flu shot clinics and financial seminars • Remote work classification • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities • Equal opportunity employment