Rewards Manager, HR​/Recruitment

The Total Rewards Manager is responsible for the management and continuous improvement of Rancho Health's employee benefits and compensation programs, with primary responsibility for self-funded medical plans, health and welfare benefits, retirement plans, compensation administration, and annual merit and incentive cycles.

This role requires direct, hands-on experience working with self-funded employer health plans and is ideal for an experienced total rewards professional who enjoys being both analytical and hands-on. Working closely with the Senior Director, Human Resources, the Total Rewards Manager serves as the organization's subject matter expert for benefits and compensation and provides analysis and recommendations to support plan performance, cost management, compensation decisions, compliance, and employee experience.

The successful candidate will also bring a strong general HR foundation and a collaborative approach, with the ability to support HR colleagues during acquisitions, major projects, peak workloads, and team member absences.

• Manage Rancho Health's medical, dental, vision, life, disability, voluntary, and retirement benefit programs and serve as the primary escalation point for complex benefit issues.
• Serve as the internal subject matter expert for the organization's self-funded medical plans.
• Partner with brokers, TPAs, stop-loss partners, carriers, network partners, Payroll, and HR leadership to support effective plan administration and performance.
• Monitor and analyze claims experience, utilization trends, large claims, plan costs, funding performance, stop-loss, and other plan-performance information and provide observations and recommendations to HR leadership.
• Partner with HR leadership and the benefits broker to analyze renewals, financial projections, plan design alternatives, stop-loss options, and vendor recommendations.
• Manage the annual Open Enrollment process, including planning, system configuration and testing, communications, employee education, vendor coordination, issue resolution, and post-enrollment auditing.
• Oversee benefit reconciliations, eligibility and enrollment audits, payroll deduction validation, data feeds, and benefit-related HRIS/vendor configuration.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with benefit and retirement plan vendors, including issue escalation and service performance.
• Identify emerging plan risks, administrative gaps, and opportunities for improvement and recommend practical solutions.

• Administer Rancho Health's compensation programs and provide market analysis and recommendations to support compensation decisions.
• Conduct market pricing and compensation analysis for new and existing positions.
• Analyze starting salaries, promotions, market and equity adjustments, salary ranges, internal equity, and pay compression and provide recommendations to HR leadership.
• Manage annual merit increase and incentive/bonus administration cycles, including modeling, employee data, manager tools and guidance, submission tracking, approval workflows, data validation, Payroll coordination, implementation, and post-cycle auditing.
• Analyze merit and incentive recommendations for budget alignment, internal equity, compression, and guideline adherence.
• Maintain compensation-related job data, salary ranges, documentation, and reporting and support applicable pay transparency and equal-pay requirements.

• Manage operational administration of the company's 401(k) plan in partnership with the recordkeeper, third-party administrator, Payroll, and HR leadership, including eligibility, reconciliations, census data, compliance testing, required notices, and recurring plan activities.
• Monitor benefits administration for compliance with applicable requirements, including ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and ERISA.
• Manage the annual ACA reporting process and coordinate required benefits documentation and reporting.
• Serve as the benefits and compensation functional resource for acquisitions and employee transitions, partnering with the assigned HR Business Partner or HR project lead on due diligence, analysis, communications, enrollment, and implementation.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen processes, controls, technology, documentation, and the employee experience.

The Human Resources team operates with clear functional ownership and shared…