Looking for an opportunity to make a significant impact on reward strategies and contribute to a company’s overall success?  We have a unique opportunity for a Manager Total Rewards – Benefits to join our team!

In this highly visible role, you will develop, execute strategies, and lead a team to support Alliant Energy’s philosophy regarding benefits programs and deliver services that enable business success.  You’ll ensure we are in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and standard operating procedures regarding all benefits offerings. By actively participating in these initiatives, you will contribute to shaping our organization’s rewards strategy, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and regulatory standards.

Our ideal candidate has experience with benefits administration, strategy and design, vendor management and compliance.  A strong process improvement mindset along with the ability to analyze data to drive business decisions is also strongly preferred.

This is a hybrid-remote position reporting to the Cedar Rapids, IA or Madison, WI office. Candidates must reside in Iowa or Wisconsin.

What you will do

• Performs all leadership duties including, but not limited to, hiring and rewarding talent, fostering an inclusive and safe workplace, partnering with employees to set clear goals and expectations, providing timely and specific feedback on performance, developing improvement plans to address performance gaps, addressing conflict with care and respect, identifying opportunities for growth and development, embracing and modeling a mindset of lifelong learning, ensuring employees report to work fit for duty, adhering to our Code of Conduct and modeling Alliant Energy’s Core Values at all times.
• Designs, implements, and administers benefit programs – e.g., pension plans, life, health and disability insurance, voluntary benefits, post-retirement welfare and well-being that are cost-effective and provide excellent competitive positioning. Monitors trends and developments in the market to ensure plan designs are competitive.
• Monitors the changing legal landscape and ensures benefit plans are administered consistently and in accordance with plan documents, and applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
• Monitors benefit related costs and develops and implements effective cost-management strategies to mitigate rising costs.
• Manages vendor relationships to develop strong partnerships and high performance; holds vendors accountable for service failures.
• Collaborates with the HR team to develop a strong partnership with union leadership and membership to ensure a positive employee experience.
• Develops strategies for educating the organization on benefit offerings to encourage effective management of employee cost and optimal benefit usage for well-being.
• Partners collaboratively across the organization to ensure there is an understanding and appreciation for the value of our benefit offerings as well as how the need to and process required to adhere to laws and regulations.
• Engages in other duties as needed that support Alliant Energy’s Values and helps deliver on our Purpose to serve customers and build stronger communities.

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree Human Resources, Business Administration, Economics, or related area. Preferred

Required Experience

• 7 years progressively responsible experience working with benefits and retirement plan administration.
• 3 years progressively more responsible management experience.
• Previous experience being accountable for the design and management of benefit plans.

​Other Requirements

Promotes and supports diversity initiatives and equal employment opportunity.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to develop short- and long-term strategic plans and translate those plans into action.
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills.
• Demonstrated financial skills such as budgeting and basic accounting.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to use computer software programs (e.g., e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet, and project management).

Key Skills

• Benefits Administration • Benefits Strategy • Benchmarking • Data Analysis • Data Visualization • Employee Benefits Design • Regulatory Compliance • Stakeholder Management • Storytelling • Vendor Management • Leadership