Working with KinderCare Learning Companies means using your outstanding talents to help set the foundation for lifelong learners, where you can collaborate with colleagues, grow and learn, and positively impact the families we serve.

With over 50 years of experience, 30,000+ employees, and more than 2,000 early learning center programs, we are the most accredited leaders in early childhood education. Together, we create environments where kids grow and thrive. As one of only four companies to receive the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award six times, we’re confident that you can grow and thrive here, too. We can’t wait to meet you.

Overview:
The Senior Healthcare Specialist will be an advocate for our employee's healthcare needs. This individual will reduce complexities and optimize the KinderCare suite of benefits by using point solutions and resources. They will build relationships and collaborate with the vendors, HR team, corporate partners, and field leaders to deliver an exemplary employee experience, influence program outcomes and drive organizational change. This person will closely collaborate with our medical partners to address issues with both temporary and long-term solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Support the employee experience in navigating KinderCare Learning Companies' Health Care Programs.
• Counsel & provide timely and vital information to employees so that they can make accurate and informed decisions regarding their healthcare needs.
• Act as an advocate for both the employee and the company to ensure program success.
• Ensure all compliance activities tied to the medical program are tracked and performed timely.
• Develop solid relationships with all KinderCare teams and act as liaison when trouble-shooting roadblocks; includes navigating contentious situations and opposing views.
• Manage and partner with multiple vendors, seeking opportunities to enhance service and close identified gaps through the life of the contract.
• Process and maintain confidential personnel records.
• Support other benefits teams and projects as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in benefits administration, with the clinical side of health insurance highly desired.
• Knowledge of benefit plans, current labor laws and related regulations.
• Ability to communicate effectively to support employees and convey feedback to all levels of the organization.
• Ability to set clear expectations, ask probing questions, develop action plans and provide frequent updates on progress and accountability on expectations.
• Possess a passion and curiosity for finding the right solution in the simplest way.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively balance the needs of the business with the needs of individual employees and to handle situations to increase positive outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and apply complex business operations, practices, procedures, and policies to ensure compatibility with company culture.
• The ability to handle confidential and sensitive issues.
• Highly accountable.

Our benefits meet you where you are. We’re here to help our employees navigate the integration of work and life:

• Know your whole family is supported with discounted child care benefits.
• Breathe easy with medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!).
• Feel supported in your mental health and personal growth with employee assistance programs.
• Feel great and thrive with access to health and wellness programs, unlimited paid time off and discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones.
• … and much more.

At KinderCare Learning Companies you'll use your skills and expertise to help craft and contribute to our shared mission of supporting communities and encouraging lifelong learners. From our teachers to our cooks to our financial analysts, we are all passionate about crafting a world of learning, happiness and adventure for more than 150,000 children every day.

As the first national early childcare education provider to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute, we continue to follow the latest science-backed and evidence-based strategies for maintaining a safe and worry-free workplace.

Our highest priority has always been to keep our employees, children, families, and communities as safe and healthy as possible. KinderCare highly encourages its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and their communities. We are proud to provide paid time off for employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We are also subject to state law, local ordinances, and Health Department requirements for employees working in child care, school facilities, and corporate work spaces.

We truly believe that everyone belongs in our circle, and everyone deserves to be celebrated for who they are. By partnering with underrepresented groups and experts in DEI, we are identifying areas to improve and forging a path forward through accountability, compassion, accessibility, and inclusion.

Primary Location : Portland, Oregon, United States

Job : Corporate