Manager, U.S. Health Care Benefits Administration

As part of our Human Resources team, you’ll help us attract, hire and retain the top talent we need to achieve our bold vision. You’ll play a vital role in defining, developing and maintaining the winning culture that empowers diverse individuals to work together and create the impossible. We’re seeking change leaders, talent strategists, employee advocates and culture architects to enable our teams, partners, and businesses to do and be their best.

In this position...

The Manager, U.S. Health Care Administration leads the operational excellence, administration, and execution of Ford's U.S. health care benefits programs. This role partners closely with the Manager, U.S. Health Care Strategy and Design to ensure strategy is grounded in administrative feasibility and executed flawlessly. The ideal candidate is a strong operational leader with deep expertise in benefits administration, compliance, and vendor management, who can serve as a critical execution partner to the Manager, U.S. Health Care Strategy and Design.

This role is hybrid and requires at least 4 days per week onsite in Dearborn, MI.

You'll have...

- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Health Care Administration, or a related field (Master's preferred).
- Minimum of 7-10 years of progressive experience in employee benefits, with at least 4-6 years focused on health care benefits administration in a large, complex organization (Fortune 500 or comparable experience strongly preferred).

Even better, you may have...

- Demonstrated experience administering health care benefits in a unionized environment; exposure to labor negotiations support is a plus.
- Experience managing vendor relationships, performance management, and contract administration in the health care benefits space.
- Strong operational execution skills, with demonstrated ability to translate strategy into action and drive results through process discipline.
- Comfort operating with autonomy and directly supporting executive leadership.
- Track record of building and leading teams focused on service delivery and operational excellence.
- Solid knowledge of federal and state benefits legislation (ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA) and compliance requirements.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, assess feasibility, and generate actionable recommendations.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and confidently with executive leadership and collaborate effectively with a peer strategy leader.
- Proven project management and coaching skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Professional certification such as CEBS (Certified Employee Benefit Specialist) or similar.
- Experience with self-insured health plans, actuarial valuation processes, and claims analytics.
- Experience in automotive, large industrial, manufacturing, or other heavily unionized industries.

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more.
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments and more.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance.
- Established and active employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service.
- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #LI-LC2