Jobs · Human Resources · Massachusetts

Manager, Benefits and Compliance

MITRE · Bedford, MA · 1 mo ago
Human Resources$141k–$177k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes intro paragraphs about MITRE, then description of Benefits & Wellbeing department, then role description. We need to use

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when posting has real specific content. We have content: About the role: we have description of role (Manager, Benefits & Compliance). Could be "About the role". Responsibilities: list of duties under "Roles & Responsibilities". Requirements: maybe "Basic Qualifications". Qualifications: maybe "Preferred Qualifications". Skills: maybe not separate; but we could combine? The instruction: prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We can include About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (Basic Qualifications), Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications), Benefits (maybe not given? There's mention of benefits programs but not employee benefits for this role; but there is a Benefits & Wellbeing department description; but not the benefits offered to employee. There's no explicit benefits for the role. So we should not create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does not list benefits like health insurance, 401k, etc. So skip Benefits. Pay: we have salary compensation range: $141,200 - $176,500 - $211,800. So include Pay section. Schedule: we have "This position requires a minimum of 3 days per week on-site" and "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite". So schedule info: onsite requirement 3 days/week. So include Schedule section. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: legal, EEO, accommodation, copyright, etc. We need to preserve all substantive information. So include description paragraphs. Structure:

About the role

... description of MITRE, Benefits & Wellbeing department, role overview ... maybe combine. Better: About the role: include the paragraph that describes MITRE and the department and the role's purpose. Then Responsibilities:

  • each bullet from Roles & Responsibilities. Then Requirements: Basic Qualifications. Then Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications. Then Pay:

    salary range. Then Schedule:

    onsite requirement. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to ensure we don't duplicate lines. Let's extract content. Intro: "At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future." Then department description: "MITRE’s Benefits & Wellbeing department supports the health, wellbeing, and financial security of our employees through comprehensive programs and services across the employee lifecycle. The team is responsible for MITRE’s health and welfare benefits, retirement programs, wellbeing, leave and disability programs, and relocation services. Benefits & Wellbeing partners across MITRE to deliver programs that are competitive, compliant, and responsive to employee needs. The department focuses on providing a high-quality employee experience by making benefits and services accessible, understandable, and easy to navigate, while ensuring effective program administration and responsible stewardship of MITRE resources." Then role description: "The Manager, Benefits & Compliance is a key leadership role within MITRE’s Benefits & Wellbeing organization, responsible for overseeing the management, compliance, and delivery of MITRE’s benefits programs, including health and welfare, retirement, relocation, and wellbeing. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Benefits & Wellbeing, this role leads the teams responsible for benefits program management and translates Benefits & Wellbeing strategy into operational priorities and effective execution. The Manager oversees program and vendor performance, manages compliance and operational risk, and drives continuous improvement. A key focus of the role is delivering a high-quality employee experience by ensuring benefits programs are administered effectively and are accessible, understandable, and easy to navigate." Then "Roles & Responsibilities:" followed by list. Let's capture each bullet: - Lead the Benefits & Compliance team, establishing clear priorities, expectations, and accountability for program delivery and results. - Oversee the management and administration of MITRE’s health and welfare, retirement, relocation, wellbeing, and related benefits programs. - Translate Benefits & Wellbeing strategy and direction into operational priorities and lead the implementation of approved program changes and initiatives. - Ensure programs are administered in accordance with plan provisions, MITRE policies, regulatory requirements, and established service expectations. - Provide leadership and subject matter expertise for benefits compliance and governance, including required controls, audits, testing, filings, notices, and documentation. - Monitor legislative and regulatory developments, assess risks and operational impacts, and partner with Legal and other stakeholders to ensure readiness and compliance. - Oversee MITRE’s retirement programs, including administration, compliance, governance and fiduciary processes, required testing and filings, vendor performance, and employee support. - Manage day-to-day relationships with benefits consultants, carriers, administrators, recordkeepers, and other partners; monitor performance, resolve issues, and hold vendors accountable for service quality and employee experience. - Ensure benefits programs and processes are accessible and easy to navigate and lead the resolution of complex employee issues and escalations. - Oversee annual enrollment and other major program cycles, ensuring operational readiness, effective execution, and coordination with Benefits Communications & Operations. - Monitor program performance, employee feedback, and operational data to identify risks, trends, and opportunities for continuous improvement. - Build strong partnerships across HR, HRIS, Legal, Finance, Payroll, Procurement and other teams to support effective benefits delivery. - Serve as a trusted advisor on complex benefits, operational, and compliance matters, elevating broader policy, design, financial, or enterprise implications to Benefits & Wellbeing leadership. - Lead, coach, and develop benefits professionals, building team capability and fostering a collaborative, accountable, and inclusive environment. - Support effective management of program resources and assigned budgets. Then "Basic Qualifications:" list: - Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; 8 years with a Master’s degree; or 5 years with a PhD; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience. - Significant progressive experience in employee benefits, total rewards, or a related field, including complex health and welfare and retirement programs. - Demonstrated experience leading and developing benefits professionals and/or people leaders. - Strong knowledge of benefits laws, regulations, and compliance requirements, including ERISA and applicable federal and state requirements. - Experience with retirement plan administration, governance, compliance, and fiduciary processes. - Experience overseeing benefits operations and translating strategic direction into effective execution. - Experience managing benefits vendors, including consultants, carriers, administrators, and recordkeepers. - Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional work, manage competing priorities, and navigate complex or ambiguous issues. - Strong communication, collaboration, and influencing skills with a focus on delivering a high-quality employee experience. - This position requires a minimum of 3 days per week on-site Note: The last bullet about onsite is actually schedule; but it's under Basic Qualifications. We'll still include it maybe but we also have Schedule section. Might duplicate. Better to keep schedule info in Schedule section and not duplicate. However we must preserve all substantive information; we can keep it in Schedule section and not repeat. But the Basic Qualifications bullet includes that; we could omit it from Basic Qualifications to avoid duplication, but that would be removing substantive info. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep that info somewhere. If we put it in Schedule section, we still preserve it. We can remove it from Basic Qualifications list to avoid duplication, but that would be removing it from that section; but the info is still present elsewhere. That's acceptable as we are not removing the info, just relocating. However the instruction says "do NOT repeat the job title as a heading" and "do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

    or drop it." It doesn't forbid moving content. I'd keep the onsite requirement in Schedule section and not duplicate in Basic Qualifications. But we need to ensure we didn't lose any other Basic Qualifications content. Thus Basic Qualifications list will exclude the onsite bullet. Then Preferred Qualifications: - Experience supporting benefits for a large, complex, or geographically dispersed workforce. - Experience with self-funded health and welfare programs. - Experience overseeing significant benefits implementations, vendor transitions, annual enrollment cycles, or operational transformations. - Experience with complex retirement programs and associated governance processes. - Experience with HRIS platforms, particularly Workday. Then clearance info: "This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None" and "This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): None". This is minor metadata; we can fold into a short

    or drop it. Probably drop as it's not substantive? It's metadata about clearance; could be considered minor. The instruction: fold minor metadata into a short

    or drop it. We can drop it. Then Salary compensation range: "$141,200 - $176,500 - $211,800". Also "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite". We'll handle schedule. Thus sections: About the role: combine intro paragraphs (MITRE description, Benefits & Wellbeing department, role overview). Could be multiple

    elements. Responsibilities:

    • list. Requirements: Basic Qualifications (excluding onsite bullet).
      • . Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications.
        • . Pay:

          Salary compensation range: $141,200 - $176,500 - $211,800. Schedule:

          This position requires a minimum of 3 days per week on-site. Annual work location type: Onsite. We must not include sections like Benefits (no specifics). Good. Now produce HTML fragment. Make sure to use

          for each section heading. Let's craft. About the role: maybe two paragraphs: first MITRE intro, second Benefits & Wellbeing department and role overview. We'll include:

          At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

          MITRE’s Benefits & Wellbeing department supports the health, wellbeing, and financial security of our employees through comprehensive programs and services across the employee lifecycle. The team is responsible for MITRE’s health and welfare benefits, retirement programs, wellbeing, leave and disability programs, and relocation services. Benefits & Wellbeing partners across MITRE to deliver programs that are competitive, compliant, and responsive to employee needs. The department focuses on providing a high-quality employee experience by making benefits and services accessible, understandable, and easy to navigate, while ensuring effective program administration and responsible stewardship of MITRE resources.

          The Manager, Benefits & Compliance is a key leadership role within MITRE’s Benefits & Wellbeing

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