Senior Manager, Benefits

Modivcare

Senior Manager, Benefits leading organization’s benefits design and implementation. Ensuring compliance, efficiency, and competitiveness in employee benefit programs.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeDenver • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $133,300 - $179,900 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Administers comprehensive employee benefit program, including life, disability, and health plans, 401(k) plan, personal savings plan, employee stock purchase plan and deferred compensation programs.
Helps maintain company's competitive position with benefits, by evaluating and comparing existing company benefits with those of other employers.
Maintains and track benefit census data.
Ensures compliance with applicable government regulations; ensure timeliness and accuracy of required reporting and fees.
Serves as primary contact for plan vendors and third-party administrators, coordinate transfer of data to external contacts for services.
Evaluates and revise internal processes to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Works with broker to prepare annual employee census, to select appropriate benefits carriers; advise with respect to changes in coverage as appropriate.
Reconciles benefits accounting and ensure benefits accounts are properly funded.
Ensures proper funding mechanism and collaboration with Payroll, Finance, and Accounting to ensure accounts are reconciled monthly.
Assists in policy development, budgeting and planning for benefits department.
Manages transition of Benefits for all M&A transactions.
Manages Open Enrollment/Life Event changes to ensure compliance with federal laws.
Recommends new and/or improved employee benefit plans and cost-saving measures.
Installs approved new plans and changes by preparing announcement material, booklets, and other media for communicating new plans and updated to employees.
Revises and reissues all communications material on benefits from time to time.
Advises and counsels management, senior leaders, and employees on existing benefits.
Provides technical guidance and updates in HRIS system related to Benefits.
Ensures compliance with all legal requirements of various employee benefit programs and prepares and files required legal reports.
Monitors processing of employee benefit claims, surveying competitor benefit programs, requiring emerging benefit practices, and counseling employees regarding benefit status.
May lead projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources or similar field required.
Master's degree preferred.
Twelve (12) plus years experience in Benefits.
Eight (8) plus years leadership responsibility.
Public company experience required.
Proven experience in the implementation and use of technology to drive efficient administration of total rewards programs.
Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills across all levels of the organization.
Demonstrated experience partnering with HR Ops/IT to leverage emerging technologies in core systems to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and employee experience.
Demonstrated experience work cross functionally in a diverse organization.
Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills, including ability to collaborate, influence, negotiate with all levels of leadership; resolve conflicts, and ability to collaborate and effectively work in a team-based environment.
Excellent leadership, facilitation, critical thinking, decision making and problem-solving skills.
Strong business and financial acumen.
Strong project management skills.
Ability to educate leadership and employees on the value and understanding of rewards programs.
Excellent oral, written and communication skills including ability to organize and present information concisely to executive leaders and BOD.
Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and analysis skills required.
Strong initiative, creativity, and ability to think “out of the box.”
Must be results oriented, customer-focused, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Ability to work independently while working effectively as part of a team required.
Exercise good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
Must have general knowledge of US and other global employment laws and practices.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office packages.

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Hard Skills & Tools

employee benefits administrationbenefits accountingHRISdata analysiscompliance reportingproject managementcost-saving measuresbenefit census data managementM&A benefits transitiontotal rewards program implementation

Soft Skills

communication skillsinterpersonal skillscollaboration skillsleadership skillscritical thinkingproblem-solving skillsrelationship buildingnegotiation skillsdecision makingcreativity

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in BusinessBachelor's Degree in Human ResourcesMaster's Degree (preferred)HR certifications (e.g., SHRM, HRCI)