Director, Health and Welfare Benefits (Versant Media)

About the Company

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, and GolfPass.

About the Role

The Director of Health & Welfare Benefits is responsible for designing and delivering comprehensive programs and solutions with the goal of maximizing employee engagement to promote prevention, primary care, and effective chronic condition management as an integral part of Versant’s overall health care benefits strategy. This role leads the clinical engagement strategy for key health care programs, ensuring seamless integration with Versant’s advocacy and navigation platform while aligning future product development with business objectives and workforce needs.

This position works cross-functionally across Versant’s Total Rewards strategic wellbeing pillars (physical, emotional, and financial) to ensure alignment with Versant’s HR Operating Model and employee journeys. The role also involves liaising with outside organizations, including consultants, benefit vendors, and legal counsel.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development of Versant’s health care clinical engagement strategy to drive greater usage of preventive and primary care services while identifying priorities for future clinical intervention based on population health and cost drivers.
• Develops, implements, and maintains a cadence for ongoing review of engagement and navigation services on an enterprise-wide basis to continually refine processes and member care journeys.
• Provides input and direction to existing service partners on strategic roadmap/product development to better support Versant’s business objectives.
• Develops innovative approaches to expand and transform the engagement and cross-utilization of benefits and services leading Versant’s health advocacy and navigation access platform.
• Develops and recommends employee benefit changes to maintain external equities and effectively participates in employee communication/change management rollout.
• Provides strategic relationship oversight of key vendor partners, including Versant’s health advocacy and navigation platform.
• Analyzes Versant health plan utilization to assess employee health outcomes and identify future strategic priorities.
• Collaborates on business case development for annual health plan strategic initiatives, including integration requirements with Versant’s navigation resources.
• Develops metrics and dashboards to monitor ongoing plan performance and engagement.
• Collaborates on materials and discussions for governance meetings and approvals.
• Oversees financial and ongoing administration related to physical wellbeing programs and initiatives, including:
  • Budgeting and forecasting for key vendor partnerships and integration into broader multi-year forecasting of self-funded health care program costs and Long Range Planning.
  • Retains, negotiates, directs, and manages benefit consultant(s) and service providers.
• Partners with the communications team to develop and deliver effective employee communications and materials.
• Partners across Total Rewards teams to deliver cohesive strategies/recommendations, measure outcomes, and drive operational efficiencies.
• Understands and communicates interdependencies of strategy across Total Rewards.
• Establishes standards for potential alignment with international program offerings.
• Supervisory responsibility for analysts supporting health care engagement strategy, leave of absence, and escalations.
• Participates at industry conferences and other peer company events, where appropriate.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent, and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s), and overtime as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 10+ years of relative work experience.
• Employees at all levels are expected to:
  • Understand Versant’s Operating Principles and make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
  • Own the customer experience—think and act in ways that put customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
  • Know your stuff—be enthusiastic learners, users, and advocates of game-changing technology, products, and services, especially digital tools and experiences.
  • Win as a team—make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
  • Drive results and growth.
  • Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
  • Do what's right for each other, customers, investors, and communities.

Skills

• Benefits Strategy
• Employee Engagement
• Health Outcomes
• Managing Ambiguity
• People Leadership
• Results-Oriented
• Taking Initiative

Benefits

We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance, and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially, and emotionally through big milestones and everyday life.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• A variety of discounts and perks

Pay

Salary range: $150,000 - $190,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible).

Schedule

Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week. Subject to change based on business need.