Job Posting End Date: November 13
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Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:
Award-winning culture
Inclusion and diversity as a priority
Performance Based Incentive Plans
Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
Mental health support
Career advancement opportunities
Student loan repayment options
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible work environments
*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans .
And that’s just the beginning…
With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!
General Summary:
This position is accountable for a variety of activities related to corporate and statutory paid family and medical leaves. The Paid Leave Consultant (PLC) drives initiatives and leads project groups related to the development of new statutory plans, including having a key role in making decisions related to processes and system requirements to support new state programs/requirements. The PLC serves as a subject matter expert on all processes in the integrated paid leave, claim, and FMLA / state workflow and formulates strategies for excellent service. This position leads implementations of new paid leave policies on both corporate and statutory Paid Family and Medical Leaves (PFML). The PLC represents Unum in the marketplace through participation in client facing meetings and leading educational webinars.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Project Management
Delivers results for large/complex/cross-functional project initiatives within established timeframes and quality measures.
Lead team of SMEs from field/NCG, legal, implementation, AO, UW, IT, L&D and PP&C to develop Self Insured PFML statutory offerings.
Partner with Products and lead benefits working group to develop Benefits-specific processes related to Fully Insured PFML statutory offerings.
Coordinate a team of Benefits SME’s that are dedicated to establishing our statutory paid leave offerings.
Prepares change management strategies to create operational effectiveness.
Consults with business leaders to translate a project idea into a defined project with goals, objectives and scope.
Identifies resources needed, negotiates with people managers as required to lead project team, ensuring clarity of project roles and responsibilities, so that all project plans are completed within defined timeframes, meeting objectives and strategic goals.
Develops and implements communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks and timely delivery of initiative results.
Translates project goals/objectives into a defined future state and project success measures that can be understood by project stakeholders, project team and others.
Articulates project management best practices with peer group and others within Unum, as applicable.
Proactively identifies barriers and resolves issues, determining contingency plans (executing as needed), while mitigating risk.
Escalates issues to appropriate audiences for awareness and/or additional support.
May manage and develop a highly motivated staff to support projects, managing the performance of employees in a candid, constructive and timely way, including results, gaps in skills, and areas…