[Hiring] Benefits Manager @The Community Solution Education System

Role Description

The Community Solution Education System seeks an experienced and strategic Benefits Manager to oversee, administer, and continuously enhance the organization’s employee benefits and leave programs, including healthcare, retirement, wellness, and leave administration (FMLA, ADA, Workers’ Compensation, STD, LTD, and related leave programs). This position plays a critical role in ensuring employees have a positive and supported experience throughout the benefits lifecycle while maintaining operational excellence, compliance, and effective vendor performance.

The Benefits Manager serves as a key functional role responsible for:

• Assessing and improving benefit programs
• Optimizing Workday benefits functionality
• Strengthening employee education and engagement
• Ensuring transparency and collaboration across Payroll, HR Operations, HRIS, Finance, Legal, and institutional stakeholders

This position reports directly to the CHRO.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local benefits and leave regulations, including ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA, FMLA, ADA, Workers’ Compensation, STD, LTD, and related compliance requirements
• Demonstrated understanding of benefits administration operations, process improvement, systems integration, and employee support models
• Strong proficiency with Workday Benefits administration and related HR systems functionality
• Ability to assess and improve operational workflows, documentation, and employee experience related to benefits administration
• Experience managing vendor relationships, service delivery expectations, and implementation efforts
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, problem-solving, and project management skills
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Payroll, HR Operations, HRIS, Finance, Legal, managers, and external vendors
• Ability to manage sensitive and confidential information with professionalism and discretion

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field required
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in benefits administration and leave management, including healthcare, retirement, and complex leave programs
• Experience administering and optimizing HRIS Benefits functionality and related HR systems, with experience in Workday preferred
• Experience managing benefits compliance activities, audits, reporting, and regulatory administration
• Experience leading benefits implementations, vendor transitions, process improvements, or operational enhancement initiatives preferred

Benefits

• Generous compensation and benefits package
• Generous paid time-off
• Medical and dental insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement plan with employer contribution
• Multiple flexible spending accounts
• Tuition reimbursement

Company Description

The Community Solution Education System (The Community Solution), founded in 2009, is a pioneering collaborative network of higher education institutions. Its defining characteristic is its commitment to “systemness;” a strategic coordination of multiple components that creates a synergistic whole greater than the sum of its parts.

This collaboration empowers the institution to evolve and adapt, broadening accessibility, and creating innovative programs responsive to the evolving needs of its students and the global community.

Through its partnership with The Community Solution, Saybrook is not just improving its own institution, but actively contributing to a transformative model for higher education that prioritizes collaboration, efficiency, and shared success.