Benefits Director jobs in Illinois

Benefits Director oversees the development, implementation, administration, and maintenance of benefits programs, policies, and procedures. Ensures programs are chosen to be equitable, meet employee needs, comply with legal requirements, and to be cost effective. Being a Benefits Director establishes practices for evaluating existing benefits programs against peer organizations to determine competitiveness, trends and developments. Makes high-level decisions to modify existing benefits programs or institute new ones. Additionally, Benefits Director requires a bachelor's degree. May require Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS). Typically reports to top management. The Benefits Director typically manages through subordinate managers and professionals in larger groups of moderate complexity. Provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility. May give input into developing the budget. To be a Benefits Director typically requires 3+ years of managerial experience. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)

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Director - Business Analysis and Agile Transformation
  • Wespath Benefits and Investments
  • Glenview, IL FULL_TIME
  • Location:

    1901 Chestnut Ave
    Glenview, Illinois, 60025
    United States

    Category:
    Information Technology

    Date Needed by:
    2/20/2023


    Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

    You bring the motivation, teamwork, and integrity and we’ll provide the collaborative culture, professional development, and respect you deserve. And if you’re good at what you do, you’ll have a career at Wespath Benefits and Investments. Join our team in Information Technology – and, if you’d like, teams such as our DEI Council, Green Team on environmental sustainability, or our Change Management team – and make an impact through your work!

    Wespath, recognized as a 2017-2022 Chicago’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® and a 2018-2022 National Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®, has an opportunity for a Director – Business Analysis and Agile Transformation that responsible for leading the Business Analysis function as well as providing leadership for an enterprise transformation to agile delivery. This position serves as the leading authority on preparing, defining, educating, implementing, and maintaining an organization agile delivery model.

    More specifically, as the Director – Business Analysis and Agile Transformation you will have the opportunity to:

    • Directly supervise members of the Business Analysis (BA) team. Establish and maintain expectations and create growth and development opportunities for direct reports.
    • Lead the BA team in terms of adoption of progressive analysis and elicitation techniques and tool usage.
    • Allocate BA team resources and monitor deliverables to meet client needs.
    • Coordinate with other teams to identify and implement new systems to support business function at an effective cost basis.
    • Help establish governance structures that align strategy formulation with enterprise execution.
    • Ensure that teams and programs are well managed through the creation of controls that optimize delivery, minimize risk, and maximize throughput.
    • Lead the agile transformation across technology from adoption to maturity.
    • Facilitate cross-team, cross-department initiatives and manage complex dependencies.
    • Ensure continuous improvement by establishing quick feedback cycles and leveraging data-driven metrics to identify areas of improvement.
    • Deliver hands-on training and coaching of defined agile practices to individual teams and programs.
    • Drive continuous improvement to enable higher performing programs/organizations and/or teams with improved business and customer outcomes.
    • Coach Agile Product Managers, Product Owners, Agile Team Facilitators / Scrum Masters, Team Members (Analysts, Developers, Testers) and Leaders.
    • Define and implement scaled agile framework and practices when necessary. Advance adoption through partnering and influencing change.
    • Collaborate with individual teams/programs and organizations to discover their needs; plan and deliver instruction and coaching while ensuring alignment with their organizational strategy.
    • Coach / coordinate team or cross-team planning events such as rolling wave planning, Increment planning, or other similar ceremonies / events.

    Director – Business Analysis and Agile Transformation Benefits:

    • Medical, dental, vision and well-being benefits from our HealthFlex Exchange on day one.
    • 8% employer contribution to retirement plan with an additional match up to 2% on day one.
    • 28 days of PTO 12 paid holidays.


    Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

    • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent; MBA preferred.
    • 8 years of combined Agile or project management experience.
    • Ability to influence change across both team and leadership levels through relationship building and collaboration.
    • Demonstrate Agile mindset and working knowledge of Agile techniques including Scrum, Kanban, User Story Writing, eXtreme Programming, and a scaling framework such as SAFe or LeSS, scaled Agile methods and hybrid models.
    • Experience with training development and delivery.
    • Strong collaboration, facilitation, and conflict management skills.
    • Ability to conduct Value Stream Mapping.


    Wespath Benefits and Investments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in hiring.

  • 10 Days Ago

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Benefits Administrator
  • Wespath Benefits and Investments
  • Glenview, IL FULL_TIME
  • Location: 1901 Chestnut Ave Glenview, Illinois, 60025 United States Category: Customer Service Date Needed by: 11/1/2023 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: Wespath Benefits and Investments, recogniz...
  • 23 Days Ago

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Data Entry Specialist
  • Director of Supply Chain
  • Des Plaines, IL FULL_TIME
  • Job Description Job Description Data Entry Specialist Des Plaines, IL $45,000 - $50,000 / Annually (plus full health benefits) We are a global logistics company looking for a Data Entry Specialist to ...
  • 14 Days Ago

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Communication officer
  • Office of the Director of National Intelligence
  • Scott, IL FULL_TIME
  • Duty Description The incumbent will be assigned to the USTRANSCOM Commander's Action Group (CAG) and will provide mission support to the Commander and other senior leadership. They will leverage analy...
  • 15 Days Ago

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Stop Loss Underwriter
  • Optimyl Benefits
  • Chicago, IL FULL_TIME
  • Job Summary Optimyl Benefits is seeking a Senior Underwriter to price, quote, and analyze the structure of a contract and policy for a group employer based on group demographics, medical claims and ut...
  • 15 Days Ago

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Account Coordinator
  • Evolution of Benefits
  • Des Plaines, IL FULL_TIME
  • About us Evolution of Benefits is a small business in Des Plaines, IL. We are professional, agile, innovative and our goal is to deliver platinum client service through a team that strives to conduct ...
  • 1 Month Ago

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Director of Benefits
  • Oxford Global Resources
  • POSITION SUMMARY As the Director of Benefits, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing all e...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Director - Health and Benefits
  • Willis Towers Watson
  • New York, NY
  • As a Health and Benefits Director you will lead client engagements involving the design and management of the full array...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Director - Health and Benefits
  • WTW
  • New York, NY
  • As a Health and Benefits Director you will lead client engagements involving the design and management of the full array...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Technical Director/Director
  • CGTN America
  • Washington, DC
  • CGTN is hiring a Technical Director/Director to join our team in Washington D.C. The successful candidate will work well...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Director of IT
  • Clinical Management Consultants
  • Othello, WA
  • A reputable hospital that is committed to deliver exceptional healthcare services to the surrounding community in Centra...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Director
  • Visa
  • Homestead, FL
  • Company Description Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Director of Benefits
  • Pedagog Recruiting & Careers
  • Indianapolis, IN
  • One of our BEST clients with an established brand is looking for an outstanding Benefits Director! Compensation Base up ...
  • 3/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Director
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Clinton, MD
  • Chick-fil-A Woodyard Landing in Clinton, MD is looking for a passionate and experienced Director to lead a seasoned and ...
  • 3/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Income Estimation for Benefits Director jobs
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Benefits Director in Utica, NY
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