VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

The Director of Health & Welfare Benefits is responsible for designing and delivering comprehensive programs and solutions with the goal of maximizing employee engagement to promote prevention, primary care and effective chronic condition management as an integral part of Versant’s overall health care benefits strategy. Responsibilities include leading the overall clinical engagement strategy for key health care programs to ensure seamless integration with Versant’s advocacy and navigation platform and ensuring future product development is aligned with Versant’s business objectives and workforce needs.   

Works cross functionally across Versant Total Rewards strategic wellbeing pillars (physical, emotional and financial) to ensure alignment with Versant’s HR Operating Model and employee journeys. Effectively liaises with outside organizations, including consultants, benefit vendors, and legal counsel.

Core Responsibilities

• Leads in the development of Versant’s health care clinical engagement strategy to drive greater usage of preventive and primary care services while identifying priorities for future clinical intervention based on Versant’s population health and cost drivers.
• Develops, implements and maintains a cadence for ongoing review of engagement and navigation services on an enterprise-wide basis for the purpose of continually refining processes and member care journeys.  
• Provides input and direction to existing service partners on strategic roadmap/product development to better support Versant’s business objectives.    
• Develops innovative approaches to expand and transform the engagement and cross utilization of benefits and services leading our health advocacy and navigation access platform.  
• Develops and recommends employee benefit changes to maintain external equities and effectively participates in employee communication/change management rollout.
• Provides strategic relationship oversight of key vendor partners including Versant’s health advocacy and navigation platform. 
• Analyze Versant health plan utilization to assess employee health outcomes and identification of future strategic priorities.
• Collaborate on business case development for annual health plan strategic initiatives including integration requirements with Versant’s navigation resources.
• Develop metrics and dashboards to monitor ongoing plan performance and engagement.
• Collaborates on materials and discussions for governance meetings and approvals.
• Oversees financial and ongoing administration related physical wellbeing programs and initiatives, including:   
  • Budgeting and forecasting for key vendor partnerships and integration into broader multi-year forecasting of self-funded health care program costs and Long Range Planning.
  • Retains, negotiates, directs and manages benefit consultant(s) and service providers.
  • Partnering with communications team to develop and deliver effective employee communications and materials.
• Partners across Total Rewards teams to deliver cohesive strategies/ recommendations, measure outcomes, and drive operational efficiencies.
  • Understands and communicates interdependencies of strategy across Total Rewards.
  • ROI/VOI of strategy. 
  • Establish standards to potential alignment with international program offerings.
• Supervisory responsibility for analyst supporting health care engagement strategy.
• Supervisory responsibility for analyst supporting leave of absence and escalations
• Participates at industry conferences and other peer company events, where appropriate.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Skills

Benefits Strategy, Employee Engagement, Health Outcomes, Managing Ambiguity, People Leadership, Results-Oriented, Taking Initiative

We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

10 Years +

Additional Information

• Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week. Subject to change based on business need. This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks.
• Salary range: $150,000 - $190,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible) 

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.