Sr Director, and Leave of Absence

Nemours Children's Health is seeking an experienced Director of Benefits and Leave Administration.

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized children's health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state‑of‑the‑art children's hospitals – Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary‑urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I.

DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

The Senior Director of Benefits and Leave of Absence serves as the enterprise leader responsible for setting the long‑term strategy, financial stewardship, governance, and operational excellence of Nemours Children’s Health’s benefits and leave programs across all states and entities. This role functions as a trusted advisor to executives, influencing system‑wide decision‑making and ensuring programs advance Nemours Total Rewards philosophy, workforce strategy, and organizational priorities.

The Senior Director oversees multiyear plan design, vendor ecosystem optimization, policy governance, and enterprise compliance. This leader is accountable for delivering high value, cost‑effective programs that drive associate wellbeing, retention, and organizational performance. In partnership with HR, Legal, Finance, and Operations leaders, the Senior Director shapes enterprise strategy, anticipates regulatory and market shifts, and builds it into a scalable, future‑ready benefits and leave framework.

• Develop and steward the enterprise benefits and leave strategy, ensuring alignment with Nemours workforce, financial, and clinical operations strategies.
• Lead multiyear strategic planning, forecasting, and scenario modeling for benefits and leave programs.
• Establish and maintain systemwide governance frameworks, policies, and controls that drive consistency, compliance, and risk mitigation across all states and business units.
• Assess market competitiveness and model long‑range financial impacts to inform executive decision‑making.

• Provide strategic recommendations and insights to the various enterprise‑wide stakeholder leaders on plan design, emerging risks, cost drivers, and workforce implications.
• Serve as the organizational liaison to external consultants, advisors, and vendor partners for benefits, leave, compliance, and actuarial strategy.

• Lead enterprise financial planning for benefits and leave: trend analysis, reserve forecasting, risk modeling, cost containment strategies, and ROI evaluation.
• Drive multivendor optimization strategies that reduce cost, enhance service, and improve associate experience.

• Oversee enterprise compliance with federal and state regulations (ERISA, FMLA, ADA, ACA, HIPAA, state leave laws, PFML programs, etc.).
• Anticipate future legislation and proactively design scalable strategies to minimize organizational risk and operational disruption.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and HR Operations to ensure audit readiness and documentation excellence.

• Lead enterprise transformation of benefits and leave operations, including digital modernization, workflow automation, AI/analytics enablement, and experience redesign.
• Drive continuous improvement using data insights, benchmarking, and service level performance…