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

• Education & Credentials: 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).
• Experience & Expertise: 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).