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Job description
Make a meaningful impact by shaping how employees experience their benefits every day. In this role, you will lead strategy and execution for key health and welfare programs, ensuring they are competitive, compliant, and aligned to business priorities. You’ll collaborate across teams to drive innovation, improve outcomes, and deliver high-value benefits at scale.
What You Will Do
Evaluate market trends, benchmarking data, utilization, and plan performance to recommend program changes that improve value, compliance, and cost effectiveness.
Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local benefits regulations, including ERISA, HIPAA, ACA/PPACA, Section 125, and COBRA
Develop employee benefit communications, enrollment materials, and plan change communications to improve understanding and participation.
Manage vendor relationships, including service delivery, performance reviews, escalations, service-level agreements (SLAs), and continuous improvement plans.
Lead Request for Proposal (RFP) processes for assigned plans, including9 bid analysis, and contract evaluations in partnership with Procurement, Legal, and other internal/external teams.
Support benefit integrations for acquisitions, mergers, divestitures or other organizational changes, including compliant transition planning and implementation.
Monitor program costs, budget performance, risk factors, and vendor results to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
Manage vendor relationships, including service delivery, escalations, service-level agreements (SLAs), and continuous improvement plans.
Present annual program recommendations and execute approved plan changes with cross-functional partners including HR Operations, Payroll, Legal, and Finance.
Research escalated benefit issues, policy questions, and plan administration matters and provide guidance to internal stakeholders.
What you need
Required
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent 6+ years of additional work experience
8+ years of work experience including experience in health and welfare benefits plan design and strategy
Previous HR or role-related experience
Preferred
4+ years business-facing HR, HR COE, HR Operations, or role-related experience
8+ years' experience supporting health and welfare benefits plan design and strategy
Experience in multiple HR disciplines or client groups
Experience in health and welfare benefits plan design and strategy
CEBS certification or similar training
Candidates should ideally be based in the Eastern or Central Time Zone to align with team collaboration and business hours.
Posted Date: 06/25/2026 This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.
United States of America Pay Ranges:
- USN: $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual
- US5: $107,700 - $179,600 USD Annual
- US10: $112,900 - $188,100 USD Annual
- US15: $118,000 - $196,600 USD Annual
- US20: $123,100 - $205,200 USD Annual
- US30: $133,400 - $222,300 USD Annual
View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.
Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Click here to learn more about: US Stryker employee benefits Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.
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