Manager Benefits

Manager of Benefits

Bring your energy to Alliant Energy! At Alliant Energy, our purpose is to serve customers and build stronger communities. We are passionate about powering beyond the market challenges of today, while powering what's next in energy. When our employees say "I am energy", it means they take pride in the work we do when disaster strikes, as well as all the days in between. We want you to be safe, happy and healthy. That's why we prioritize safety, offer volunteer opportunities and provide competitive pay, comprehensive health and retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement and paid time off.

Innovation meets stability at Alliant Energyare you ready to shape the future of employee well-being? Join us as our Manager of Benefits and lead the design of forward-thinking programs that empower our people, drive business success, and keep us ahead in a changing world. In this role, you'll develop and execute strategies, lead a talented team, and ensure our benefits programs reflect Alliant Energy's philosophy while staying compliant with all applicable laws, regulations, and policies. Together, we'll deliver services that enable business success and support what matters mostour people.

What You Will Do :

• Performs all leadership duties including, but not limited to, hiring and rewarding talent, fostering an inclusive and safe workplace, partnering with employees to set clear goals and expectations, providing timely and specific feedback on performance, developing improvement plans to address performance gaps, addressing conflict with care and respect, identifying opportunities for growth and development, embracing and modeling a mindset of lifelong learning, ensuring employees report to work fit for duty, adhering to our Code of Conduct and modeling Alliant Energy's Core Values at all times.
• Designs, implements, and administers benefit programs e.g., pension plans, life, health and disability insurance, voluntary benefits, post-retirement welfare and well-being that are cost-effective and provide excellent competitive positioning. Monitors trends and developments in the market to ensure plan designs are competitive.
• Monitors the changing legal landscape and ensures benefit plans are administered consistently and in accordance with plan documents, and applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
• Monitors benefit related costs and develops and implements effective cost-management strategies to mitigate rising costs.
• Manages vendor relationships to develop strong partnerships and high performance; holds vendors accountable for service failures.
• Collaborates with the HR team to develop a strong partnership with union leadership and membership to ensure a positive employee experience.
• Develops strategies for educating the organization on benefit offerings to encourage effective management of employee cost and optimal benefit usage for well-being.
• Partners collaboratively across the organization to ensure there is an understanding and appreciation for the value of our benefit offerings as well as how the need to and process required to adhere to laws and regulations.
• Engages in other duties as needed that support Alliant Energy's Values and helps deliver on our Purpose to serve customers and build stronger communities.

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Alliant Energy offers a comprehensive total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

Pay Range : $114,000-$157,000. This position is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

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Alliant Energy and its subsidiaries are committed to creating a culture of belonging and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by law.

All candidates selected for employment with Alliant Energy will be required to successfully complete a background check, and a drug screen where applicable.

Applicants in need of a reasonable accommodation for any part of the hiring process, please email talent@alliantenergy.com.