Senior Manager, Retirement Programs

Job Summary

Responsible for leading, defining, implementing, and overseeing retirement plan strategies, policies, and initiatives across all qualified and non-qualified retirement plans. Serves as the primary relationship owner for retirement plan vendors, providing oversight of vendor performance, service delivery, and issue resolution. Supports the Retirement Plan Committee’s quarterly meeting cadence, including coordination of materials, governance activities, and follow-up actions. Coaches staff and supports the department head across retirement and financial well-being programs. Identifies barriers to organizational success and drives appropriate change. Partners across HR and other key functions to develop and deliver initiatives aligned with business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensures strategic alignment between retirement programs and business needs. Creates action plans from strategic goals recommendation and implementation.
• Manages the compliance function and vendor relationship performance management.
• Leads efforts to develop programs/processes to support overall effectiveness of assigned function.
• Defines, models, and reinforces Walgreens culture by ensuring that retirement and financial well-being practices are aligned with organizational objectives.
• Develops complex models to develop insights for proactive identification of potential business and/or plan issues, and models recommends solutions including forecasting, analyzing current plan performance, financial metrics, and conducting prospective and ongoing economic analysis.
• Oversees all client-facing needs including items such as eligibility, transfers, withdraws company match and annual true up and audit that may be associated with any of the above plan types.
• Manages retirement plan compliance and all M&A activities regarding all retirement plans, including transfers, blackouts, employee contributions, withdrawals, contribution limits, etc.
• Partners with the HR Operations team to ensure strategies are implemented and supported for the business unit.
• Keeps current on all retirement plan related laws and regulations as well as market practices to support the business unit.
• Leads project meetings to ensure proper integration among plans, design and communications.
• Oversees and manages team of direct reports.
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  Founded in 1901, Walgreens ( proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 4 years Retirement plan and program operations OR High School/GED and at least 7 years Retirement plan and program operations
• Experience collaborating with internal and external resources to develop strategies that meet department goals within budget and established timelines.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 15% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree/MBA.
• Certification in retirement plans: PRP, CRSP, CEBS, etc.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
  
  

  We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
  
  
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Salary Range: $125000 - $218,750.00 / Salaried