Senior Specialist, Total Rewards

About the role

As part of the Human Resources team, you'll help attract, hire, and retain top talent needed to achieve the company's bold vision. You'll play a vital role in defining, developing, and maintaining a winning culture that empowers diverse individuals to work together and create the impossible. This position leverages expertise in labor relations and employee engagement to collaborate with UAW leadership, Trust representatives, and external partners. You will develop and implement innovative wellness solutions that enhance employee access to support resources, drive operational excellence, and improve service effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain effective partnerships with UAW leadership and ESSP Representatives to provide strategic guidance and support initiatives that improve employee wellness and engagement.
• Develop and deliver the annual training program for ESSP Representatives by identifying and addressing gaps in training, processes, and program effectiveness.
• Administer annual intervention training as contractually required.
• Support and participate in 2028 collective bargaining activities by providing subject matter expertise, data analysis, benchmarking, cost modeling, proposal development, and implementation planning related to healthcare and wellness programs.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert (SME) for various programs, ensuring program effectiveness, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Provide strategic oversight of vendor relationships and performance, establishing service expectations, monitoring key performance indicators, identifying improvement opportunities, and driving optimal employee experience, quality, and financial outcomes.
• Investigate and resolve complex employee and stakeholder escalations, building strong relationships founded on trust, respect, and responsiveness to prevent issues from becoming significant concerns.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify, engage, and coordinate cross-functional resources, including Labor Affairs, Security, Medical, Office of General Counsel, Health Care Operations, Purchasing, Communications, Finance, and UAW leadership, to address issues and implement solutions.
• Ensure compliance with ERISA, plan governance requirements, and applicable federal and state regulations through the development, maintenance, and review of Summary Plan Descriptions (SPDs), Plan Documents, and related communications.
• Develop and draft collective bargaining agreement language related to assigned programs and benefits.
• Support the development, review, and delivery of annual enrollment communication materials, ensuring employees have clear, accurate, and timely information regarding available benefits and program changes.
• Provide strategic analysis and thought leadership by leveraging employee feedback, utilization data, workforce demographics, benchmarking, market trends, and cost evaluations to develop recommendations that optimize health, wellness, and support programs.
• Apply Lean Principles and continuous improvement methodologies to benefit changes or issues to ensure best-in-class operational performance.
• Prepare executive-level presentations, reports, and recommendations that communicate program effectiveness, business impact, risk considerations, and strategic opportunities.
• Develop annual ESSP Representative educational conferences with 70+ attendees.
• Oversee the management of plant fitness centers.
• Conduct early intervention training.
• Support Employee Support Services Program (ESSP) Representatives.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of work experience with a Master’s degree or 8 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Labor Relations, Total Rewards, or a related field.
• Involves occasional (defined as one-third or less of the time) lifting of no more than 10 pounds at a time.
• Work is performed primarily in a seated position and entails no significant stooping, standing, climbing, or walking.
• Many sedentary jobs require good use of the hands and fingers for repetitive hand-finger actions.
• Working conditions occur within low to moderate noise levels related to the use of standard office or classroom equipment.
• Minimal domestic travel, typically up to once per quarter.

Qualifications

Even better you'll have a Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree (preferred) in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience. You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care, and more.
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Established and active employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

Pay

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility, and competitive market value.