Sr. Benefits Specialist

Sunnyvale, CA 

Hybrid: Two days in office required

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, the Sr. Benefits Specialist will own global Benefits programs for Illumio’s almost 600 employees in a dozen countries.

Every day you will work to identify cost effective ways to enhance the Illumio benefits offerings while ensuring compliance with local laws and statutes, and deliver a robust, competitive Benefits Program for employees and the business.

In order to thrive in this role, you must have mastered the ability to span between strategic and tactical activities on a regular basis. You naturally default to influencing through data and have a strong portfolio of benefits expertise that clearly defines you as the expert in the room on all things benefits.

About the Team:

The Illumio Human Resources Team is composed of motivated, experienced, and talented team members who come together to build programs centered on our employees while strengthening our growth centric company culture. You will apply a consultative, data driven approach to delivering impactful benefits programs in a high growth, fast paced environment.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Ensure that the leave and disability programs are administered accurately, consistently, and uniformly and in line with established policies and procedures including applicable laws and regulations

• Coordinate leave of absence and salary supplement process in coordination with our external third-party administrator and in-house departments

• Develop and conduct new hire and annual benefits open enrollment; including enrollment system configuration and testing

• Manage vendor relationships, measure performance, and look for opportunities to optimize performance

• Conduct international benefits projects / analyses, and recommend plan design changes as appropriate

• Develop / deliver supporting communication strategies that drive program awareness globally

• Prepare data submissions for compliance or documentation related actions such as 5500s, non-discrimination testing, applications, and audits

• Plan and deliver special events such as annual wellness fairs and “lunch & learns”

• Monitor benefit enrollments, terminations, changes in coverage, and beneficiaries administered by third party administrators, and audit as necessary

• Review and validate periodic premium payment

• Respond to employee benefit inquiries and resolve issues

• Create or maintain current procedures documentation and planning calendars

• Update company information resources such as IllumiNATION, Illumio’s intranet, and recruiting summaries

Experience:

• 6+ years of progressive benefits experience across areas of design, implementation, management, and administration preferably in a fast-paced, mid-size, scaling global environment

• Bachelor degree in a related field

• Significant experience administering Health & Welfare, Retirement, Income Protection, Time Off, Wellness, and other benefits programs

• Highly analytical with the critical thinking skills required to resolve complex administrative and accounting issues

• Organized but flexible, with the ability to stay agile in a fast-paced environment

• Strong project management skills

• Strong communication and presentation skill set with the ability influence all levels of the organization

• Demonstrated experience using database and reporting systems, preferably Workday

• Must be highly proficient with MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook

• Benefits certification preferred

About Illumio: