Job Description

The Total Rewards Manager is instrumental in implementing competitive and equitable compensation structures and benefit programs. The Total Rewards Manager will be responsible for the company design and administration of the benefits and compensation plans, and establishing policies in alignment with Lifespark’s strategic plan for growth and scalability. The Total Rewards Manager will perform data analysis and monitor trends to determine the best pay and benefits practices, while identifying and implementing ways to improve the current processes, practices, and policies. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a desire to own and develop a function that has a deep impact across the company to attract, retain, and build top-tier talent. Whether it is developing new world-class total rewards policies, diving deep into market research, analyzing big data, and benchmarking, the person in this position will be involved in solving complex and interesting problems within the organization. Given the nature of the work, it also creates huge opportunities for collaboration with departments in and outside of the Talent team.

Position: Total Rewards Manager

Salary: $110,000 - $128,000 annually, depending on experience

Service Area: Hybrid (with occasional office days in St. Louis Park, MN 55416)

Schedule: 1.0 FTE, Full - Time / Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

Lifespark Benefits Include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable}
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurances
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees
• Referral bonuses
• Career path to other positions within our growing company!

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Position Functions & Responsibilities:

• Drive the planning, vision, compliance, and development of competitive benefit & reward programs for Lifespark.
• Design and develop best in class benefits strategies to attract and retain an innovative, high caliber workforce.
• Manages a very competitive 401k plan, including Plan Administrator duties, planning quarterly meetings with the committee, as well as all ongoing compliance, reporting and filing requirements.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with external benefit providers and brokers.
• Partner with benefits broker to assess and analyze current trends and performance of our company benefit plans; provides regular reporting and strategic recommendations based on company and employee requirements and fiscal drivers.
• Partner with the benefits broker and HRIS team to launch the annual open enrollment process.
• Ensure company policies and protocols follow all relevant regulations, for example: ERISA, ACA-related, HIPPA, records management, etc.

• Serve as a resident subject matter expert for all things compensation and benefits
• Provide consistency in pay practices for the company
• Assist in the development of a core compensation philosophy and strategy, inclusive of salary ranges, variable compensation, and equity issuance to be regularly bench marked and evaluated.
• Design compensation policies to ensure external competitiveness and internal equity, through research on compensation policies and practices of competitors, as well as internal data analysis.
• Conduct job evaluations, and work with business leaders and HR Management team to determine proper salary ranges; manage the process for existing and newly created positions and conduct job audits as appropriate.
• Create and support uniform title and title levelling structures.
• Conduct comparative market benchmark reviews, analyze market rates for similar jobs in comparable labor markets and recommend changes as appropriate to maintain desired market competitiveness and ensure internal equity.
• Manage Performance Review and Promotion/Salary review projects, working closely with the HR Management team to create Performance Review and Promotion/Salary review policies.
• Partner with HRIS to ensure benefits and compensation modules are optimized for automation and accuracy.

Qualifications:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources or related field
• HR certification, Certified Employment Benefits Specialist (CEBS), Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or other HR certification designation preferred.
• 3+ years experience in Benefits and Compensation.
• 5+ years of related professional HR experience (health care or senior living experience highly preferred) to include supervisory responsibilities.
• Proven experience and knowledge of strategic relationship building and conflict resolution are required.
• Experience in activating human capital as a strategic contributor to long-term organizational success.
• Demonstrated success in project management, including organizational and planning skills.

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

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