Head of Benefits

Essential Functions

• Develop and execute a multi-year enterprise benefits and wellbeing strategy aligned with Providence’s workforce, mission, financial, and business objectives.
• Integrate benefits, retirement, caregiver health, wellbeing, and absence management into a cohesive Total Rewards experience.
• Anticipate workforce, healthcare, regulatory, labor, and market trends to ensure Providence maintains competitive and sustainable programs.
• Translate enterprise priorities into clear goals, roadmaps, metrics, and decision frameworks for the benefits organization.
• Provide strategic direction over one of Providence’s largest investments in caregivers and serve as a key advisor to senior leadership on benefits strategy, healthcare cost management, retirement readiness, wellbeing, leave administration, caregiver health, vendor performance, and program governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Public Health, or a related field.
• Master’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Human Resources, Finance, Public Health, or related discipline (preferred).
• CEBS, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CFP, or other relevant professional certification (preferred).
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in employee benefits, total rewards, healthcare strategy, retirement, wellbeing, caregiver health, absence management, or related disciplines.
• 10+ years of people leadership experience, including leadership of managers, senior professionals, and enterprise-wide programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex benefit programs, significant operating budgets, large vendor portfolios, and executive-level governance processes.
• Strong knowledge of health and welfare plans, self-funded plan dynamics, retirement programs, leave administration, disability programs, compliance requirements, and benefits operations.
• Experience influencing senior executives and cross-functional partners in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience leading healthcare cost management, wellbeing strategy, retirement readiness, caregiver health, absence management transformation, or benefits technology initiatives (preferred).
• Strategic Enterprise Leadership: Sets direction across complex programs and translates strategy into clear execution priorities.
• Financial and Business Acumen: Understands cost drivers, risk, forecasting, and tradeoffs; makes balanced decisions that protect long-term sustainability.
• Mission-Centered Judgment: Connects Total Rewards decisions to Providence’s mission, values, caregiver experience, and community impact.
• Executive Influence: Communicates clearly with senior leaders, builds trust, and supports disciplined decision making.
• Operational Excellence: Simplifies processes, clarifies accountability, and raises standards for service delivery and program performance.
• Talent Development: Builds durable leadership capability, strengthens succession, and creates an inclusive, high-trust team environment.