Director, Health & Wellness Benefits Full Time

Summary

The Director of Health & Wellness Benefits is responsible for developing, leading and maintaining a data-driven health and wellness benefits function that optimizes cost, improves employee health and engagement, ensures compliance, and supports our total rewards strategy. In partnership with our broker, responsible for benefits plan/program design, vendor relationships, employee health and wellness initiatives, analytics, and cross-functional partnership with People, finance, and legal. Works closely with location executives and senior management ensuring a strong partnership and alignment in meeting location specific Health & Wellness needs as applicable. This role will be leading and executing a comprehensive, enterprise-wide wellness strategy tailored to a corporate, remote & manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead H&W Benefits strategy, design, implementation, and ongoing management of medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, and all other core and supplemental program offerings. mental health, EAP, disability, leave, wellness and population health programs and processes
• Develop long-term benefits roadmap aligning programs to business goals (cost containment, attraction/retention and overall wellbeing
• Oversee vendor selection, contracting, SLAs, and vendor performance for TPAs, carriers, PBMs, wellness vendors, and more
• Oversee annual renewals with broker. This includes RFPs, rate negotiations, and budgeting; partner with Finance on forecasting and reserve modeling and forecasting
• Ensure compliance with ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, COBRA, FMLA and other federal/state regulations; lead audits and reporting needs
• Drive leader and employee communications, engagement and change management for benefit enhancements, open enrollment and various wellness engagement efforts; partner with HRIS for system configuration and benefits
• Lead, coach and develop a small team, establish goals, KPIs and SLAs
• Present annual and mid year recommendations to manager, CPO and applicable executive for feedback and support
• Manage multiple wellness projects across geographically dispersed manufacturing sites

NOTE: Current efforts this role will take on and lead in partnership the H&W Benefits team, Local People Business Partners, and the communications team:

• Annual/Monthly Wellness Theme Calendar
• Monthly Wellness Newsletter
• Monthly H&W Hubs in Plants
• Quarterly On-Site Events – Planning & project management end to end.
• Chobani Family Day
• Annual company wide step challenge (Year 3 is 2026)
• Partnership with Vendors (Current/New)

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required in Human Resources, Nursing, Occupational Health, Health & Wellness, Public Health, or a related field
• Advanced degree or wellness/occupational health certifications preferred
• 8+ years of progressive experience in employee wellness, occupational health, HR, or health promotion
• Prior experience in a manufacturing or industrial in a multi-site environment strongly preferred
• Proven success delivering on-site programs for hourly, shift-based workforces

Skills & Competencies

• Strong People Management skills to provide direction, feedback and on-going development.
• Exceptional project management and execution skills in complex, operational environments
• Exceptional event planning and coordination across multiple locations
• Strong vendor and medical provider management experience
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage frontline and leadership employees
• Data-driven mindset with experience measuring program effectiveness and outcomes
• Ability to influence across all organizational levels in a fast-paced manufacturing setting
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment

Travel Requirement

• Ability to travel frequently, approximately 50% of the time, to manufacturing plants and other company locations