Lead, Retirement

Job : 19376

Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands like Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid®, Sharpie® and Yankee Candle® - and 24,000 talented teammates around the world. Our culture is built on values in action:
Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, and Leadership. We work together to win, grow, and make a real impact-supported by a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative environment where you can be your best, every day.

Position Title: Lead, Retirement Benefits

Location: Remote- anywhere in the US (Eastern and Central Time Zone Preferred)

Reports To: Director, Benefits

Direct Reports: No direct reports

The Lead, Retirement Benefits role provides operational leadership for the company’s retirement programs and employee financial wellbeing strategy. This role helps set program direction, and establishes governance and performance standards, oversees plan administration, compliance, financial stewardship, vendors, and complex change initiatives, and advises Total Rewards leadership and plan governance committees on risks, priorities, and investment decisions. The Lead operationalizes strategies that strengthen employees’ financial security and retirement readiness, serves as the retirement benefits subject matter expert and strategic owner for employee communications and education, and uses dashboards, scorecards, and workforce insights to drive measurable outcomes.

The role supports cross-functional partners, and ensures programs are delivered accurately, efficiently, and consistently with plan documents, internal controls, fiduciary responsibilities, and applicable requirements.

• Executes strategic direction and operating priorities for the company’s defined contribution benefit plan, balancing employee needs, fiduciary responsibilities, financial stewardship, operational excellence, and alignment with the broader Total Rewards strategy.
• Lead end-to-end retirement plan administration and governance; establish annual objectives, operating standards, decision frameworks, risk controls, and performance expectations to ensure accurate, compliant, and efficient program delivery.
• Own relationships with recordkeepers, trustees, actuaries, consultants, and other partners; direct governance routines, evaluate performance and fees, enforce service-level commitments, resolve escalated issues, and hold vendors accountable for timely corrective action and continuous improvement.
• Manage annual compliance, fiduciary, and governance activities, including nondiscrimination testing, contribution limit monitoring, government filings, participant notices, plan audits, committee materials, and required data collection; elevate material risks and ensure timely remediation.
• Execute a comprehensive employee financial wellbeing and financial security strategy that improves retirement readiness across key financial life stages. Assess workforce needs and behaviors, establish priorities and measurable goals, and integrate retirement savings, emergency savings, budgeting, debt management, investing, and retirement income education with broader Total Rewards and business objectives.
• Lead the design process, implementation, and ongoing management of financial wellbeing programs, tools, resources, and vendor solutions. Establish the program roadmap, prioritize initiatives, sponsor change, address service gaps, and ensure offerings are accessible, inclusive, relevant, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Define and monitor financial wellbeing success measures, including engagement, utilization, retirement preparedness, savings behaviors, and employee outcomes. Use workforce insights to direct targeted interventions and present…