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Cambium Learning Group is hiring a Benefits Senior Manager to lead and innovate their health, welfare, and financial wellbeing programs ensuring competitiveness and alignment with their Total Rewards philosophy. The role involves managing benefit strategies, vendor relationships, employee wellbeing programs, and collaborating with senior leadership to enhance the employee experience.

Highlights

Manage and evolve Cambium’s health, welfare, and wellbeing programs.
Lead benefits strategy, vendor relations, open enrollment, and compliance efforts.
Handle employee wellbeing and financial programs including leave management and 401(k) plan oversight.
Analyze data to inform executive decisions and future program enhancements.
Collaborate with PX Operations, Legal, Finance, and HRIS for process improvements and compliance.
Mentor a Senior Benefits Analyst and foster team development.
Required 8+ years of experience in employee benefits management and program transformations.
Preferred experience with Workday benefits administration and strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills.
Opportunity to work closely with senior leadership and influence Total Rewards programs at Cambium.
Remote-first work environment with support for home office setup and flexible work culture.

Benefits Senior Manager Full Description

Benefits Senior Manager

Job Overview:

Cambium Learning Group is looking for a Benefits Senior Manager to drive the next chapter of our benefits strategy and employee wellbeing experience. This role will own Cambium’s health, welfare, and financial wellbeing programs and ensure they remain competitive, inclusive, and aligned with our Total Rewards philosophy. You’ll shape how our programs evolve through data and feedback, simplify administration, and elevate the employee experience across a diverse, remote-first workforce.

In this high-impact role, you’ll report to the VP, Total Rewards & People Operations and work closely with senior leadership to deliver benefits that are strategic, scalable, and employee-centered. Success in this role requires excellent executional leadership, strategic judgment, and a passion for designing programs that enhance wellbeing, build engagement, and reflect Cambium’s values.

Job Responsibilities:

Benefits Strategy and Delivery

Manage Cambium’s health, welfare, and wellbeing programs to ensure they remain competitive, equitable, and aligned with our Total Rewards philosophy.
Build on the current foundation to simplify administration, enhance employee experience, and ensure programs evolve with business needs and Cambium’s culture.
Translate complex data and trends into clear insights and recommendations that inform executive outcomes and future benefit strategies.
Manage carrier and broker relationships, renewals, and service performance, ensuring accountability and consistency across programs.
Oversee annual Open Enrollment, ensuring readiness across vendors, systems, and communications.
Collaborate with PX Operations, Legal, Finance, and HRIS to maintain data accuracy, streamline processes, and ensure ongoing compliance.
Coach and support a Senior Benefits Analyst, fostering effective execution and ongoing professional development within the team.

Employee Wellbeing and Financial Programs

Own the lifecycle of programs that enable employees’ overall wellbeing — spanning physical health, mental health, financial security, and life events.
Manage leave of absence and accommodation programs to ensure a compliant, empathetic, and well-coordinated experience.
Steer Cambium’s 401(k) and related financial wellbeing programs, ensuring fiduciary compliance, plan performance, and effective employee engagement.
Improve participation and understanding of wellness, retirement, and financial programs that help employees feel supported, valued, and confident at every stage of life.

Job Requirements:

8+ years of experience leading comprehensive employee benefits programs.
Proven success managing complex, multi-vendor initiatives and benefit program transformations.
Proven analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and translate insights into clear recommendations.
Confident communicator with executive presence and the ability to advise and present to senior leaders.
Experience mentoring and developing team members.
Experience with Workday benefits administration preferred.
Thrives in collaborative, growth-focused environments and easily transitions between strategic advisory work and hands-on program ownership.

What We Offer:

The opportunity to lead high-impact projects that shape Cambium’s employee benefits and wellbeing experience.
Exposure to and collaboration with Cambium’s senior executives across the business.
A collaborative team environment where your ideas, execution, and leadership will directly shape Cambium’s future-state Total Rewards programs.

To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumlearning.com

Remote First Work Environment

Our Remote First approach gives employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life. It creates a culture in which all employees are valued and where success is measured in results. It allows us to work collaboratively, inclusively and for greater positive impact, regardless of our individual locations.

If you will be working remotely, either occasionally or on a permanent basis, you must have a reliable internet connection through a cable or fiber-optic broadband service with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.

The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in video-based interviews during the recruiting process and ongoing virtual meetings with their camera on, as part of their role.

As part of our Remote-First benefits, Cambium offers reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender, gender identity/expression, or sexual orientation), national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).

We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. You may request an accommodation during the recruiting process with your Talent Acquisition team member.

Original Job Description

Benefits Senior Manager

Job Overview:

Job Responsibilities:

Benefits Strategy and Delivery

Manage Cambium’s health, welfare, and wellbeing programs to ensure they remain competitive, equitable, and aligned with our Total Rewards philosophy.
Build on the current foundation to simplify administration, enhance employee experience, and ensure programs evolve with business needs and Cambium’s culture.
Translate complex data and trends into clear insights and recommendations that inform executive outcomes and future benefit strategies.
Manage carrier and broker relationships, renewals, and service performance, ensuring accountability and consistency across programs.
Oversee annual Open Enrollment, ensuring readiness across vendors, systems, and communications.
Collaborate with PX Operations, Legal, Finance, and HRIS to maintain data accuracy, streamline processes, and ensure ongoing compliance.
Coach and support a Senior Benefits Analyst, fostering effective execution and ongoing professional development within the team.

Employee Wellbeing and Financial Programs

Own the lifecycle of programs that enable employees’ overall wellbeing — spanning physical health, mental health, financial security, and life events.
Manage leave of absence and accommodation programs to ensure a compliant, empathetic, and well-coordinated experience.
Steer Cambium’s 401(k) and related financial wellbeing programs, ensuring fiduciary compliance, plan performance, and effective employee engagement.
Improve participation and understanding of wellness, retirement, and financial programs that help employees feel supported, valued, and confident at every stage of life.

Job Requirements:

8+ years of experience leading comprehensive employee benefits programs.
Proven success managing complex, multi-vendor initiatives and benefit program transformations.
Proven analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and translate insights into clear recommendations.
Confident communicator with executive presence and the ability to advise and present to senior leaders.
Experience mentoring and developing team members.
Experience with Workday benefits administration preferred.
Thrives in collaborative, growth-focused environments and easily transitions between strategic advisory work and hands-on program ownership.

What We Offer:

The opportunity to lead high-impact projects that shape Cambium’s employee benefits and wellbeing experience.
Exposure to and collaboration with Cambium’s senior executives across the business.
A collaborative team environment where your ideas, execution, and leadership will directly shape Cambium’s future-state Total Rewards programs.

To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumlearning.com

Remote First Work Environment

The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in video-based interviews during the recruiting process and ongoing virtual meetings with their camera on, as part of their role.

As part of our Remote-First benefits, Cambium offers reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. You may request an accommodation during the recruiting process with your Talent Acquisition team member.

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