Human Resource; HR Benefits Specialist

Position: Human Resource (HR) Benefits Specialist

Job Description:

Job Title

HR Benefits Specialist

Collaborate with Innovative 3

Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3

Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career. The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

• Manage various key US employee benefit programs, including 3M’s US Retiree Medical program, which currently touches over 55,000 current and former employees and spouses; and Voluntary Benefits (home and auto insurance, pet insurance,  protection, personal legal services, critical illness and accident, and hospital indemnity). Lead initiatives to continuously improve the employee and retiree experience, advance benefits offerings and help attract and retain critical talent through competitive programs.
  
  Serve as subject matter expert, including knowledge of the plans and policies, benefit calculations, eligibility and operations. Drive implementation of program updates (participant communication, process requirements, vendor implementation, and legally required document updates) for a smooth participant experience. Engage with individual benefit plan participants (employees and retirees) to address needs.
• Vendor management activities, such as driving vendor excellence, developing tools for 3M’s oversight and vendor governance of vendor, and managing vendor relationships to the expected performance standards through development and analysis of vendor metrics. Identify trends and opportunities for performance improvement. Participate and/or lead RFP activities and contracting activities. Coordinate participant education sessions and tools in partnership with vendors.
• Work with cross-functional partners in departments across 3M, including but not limited to:
  Finance, Legal, Procurement, Corporate Communications, and HR Business Partners and Operations team members. Ensure compliance with laws and regulations and plan documents. Work with legal and vendors to distribute legally required notices to participants. Partner with corporate communications on participant communications.
• Provide data and process analytical support to the team. Construct detailed analytical models for plan design. Other activities include automating manual processes, provide overall monitoring tools and analysis for vendor performance and cost.
• Conduct and/or partner with outside resources to perform proactive audits on high risk or changed processes to ensure data integrity and accuracy. Build proactive sampling processes for enhanced testing and auditing procedures including creating reports, conducting research, and conducting audits. Testing vendor systems prior to implementation to ensure accurate and good client experience. Also, serving as a point of contact for internal and external audits.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices and make recommendations for new or augmented benefits programs. Benchmark external industry programs and practices and keep current on legislative developments and process opportunities.
• Work with mid-level and senior 3M leadership on projects as requested. Conduct analysis, present and make recommendations to management. Projects may be within the area of responsibility or other areas of benefits.
• Engage in merger, divestiture and acquisition diligence and integration processes, as requested.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Five (5) years of experience in Human Resources, Finance, Legal, or Business Operations in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• MBA degree from an accredited…