Senior Benefits Consultant

Job Title:- Senior Benefits Consultant

Location:- Cincinnati, Ohio (Remote)

Duration:- 6 Months

Must be in MST/PST TIME ZONES

Contract

seeking a REMOTE are seeking a Benefits Lead Consultant to join the HR Wellbeing & Experience team during a critical period of transformation and stabilization. This is a highly hands-on, consultative role designed to assess, remediate, and improve benefits operations, compliance, and data integrity across a complex, multi-state environment. This position will play a key role in helping leadership identify what is broken, why it is broken, and how to fix it-while building scalable, compliant processes for the future. The ideal consultant will be comfortable rolling up their sleeves, navigating ambiguity, and bringing structure to an overextended team.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead a comprehensive assessment of current benefits operations, policies, and data to identify gaps, risks, and inefficiencies

Clean up and correct historical benefits data (including legacy data from 2023 through present and earlier)

Review, update, and standardize internal benefits policies and documentation Evaluate and redesign operational and process flows related to benefits administration Provide critical analysis of and hands-on support for

Leave of Absence (LOA) processes, which are currently highly manual and apply to remote employees in over 35 states considered a high-risk area

Ensure benefits practices align with compliance requirements across 38+ states Partner closely with HR leadership to address: What is currently broken? Where are the biggest compliance or operational risks? How should benefits processes be rebuilt for scalability?

Collaborate with a strong technical HR systems team to improve workflows and system adoption Create structured plan to

Take on or transition ownership of reasonable accommodations processes (currently supported by People Business Partners)

Serve as a trusted advisor to a team that is currently stretched and in "clean up" and "learning" mode and in need of structure and prioritization

Identify and solve for gaps across the team's resources, policies, and skills

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

5+ years of progressive benefits experience with a strong hands-on background

Deep experience with Workday (implementation, administration, or advanced configuration)

Experience using Monday.com boards for process tracking or project management

Strong knowledge of multi-state benefits compliance and employee laws

Extensive Leave of Absence (LOA) experience, including manual or complexLOA environments

Experience working across multiple organizations, ideally in transformation or clean-up scenarios

Proven ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution