HRConnect Senior Specialist, Benefits (Leave Specialist)

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Purpose

The HRConnect Senior Benefits Specialist is a key part of AbbVie’s Human Resource (HR) Operations group supporting the HRConnect delivery model.  The HRConnect Senior Benefits Specialist is responsible for supporting US benefits and leave administration, including partnering with vendors to resolve Tier 2 / 3 benefit issues, advocacy for employees related to health care issues.

Key Responsibilities Include :

• Primary support for leave, disability, and worker’s compensation administration.
• Provide support on return-to-work status questions regarding job protection, workers’ compensation claims, transition from active employment, questions relating to absence and disability.
• Manage escalated disability, leave and worker’s compensation claims to ensure benefits are provided in accordance with AbbVie policies.
• Manage worker’s compensation claims greater than 40 hours of loss time to ensure appropriate resolution.
• Manage litigated worker’s compensation claims to facilitate timely resolution with outside legal counsel and outsourced venders.
• Manage central mailbox and address escalated matters and inquiries relating to disability, workers’ compensation and leave issues.
• Manage accommodations resulting from a leave and coordinate return to work efforts and involve additional parties when necessary.
• Payroll Integrations : audit and approve payroll for employees on leave, resolve payroll matters.
• HRIT Integrations : benefit delivery, status changes, status updates, and problem resolution related to disability and work comp, ltd buy-up benefit vendors
• Coordinate with Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) : Safety / Worker’s Compensation and ergonomic issues
• Process separations and terminations from company for employees on leave
• Ensure AbbVie is compliant with all state and local paid leave and sick leave laws including coordination of state filings.
• Provide Tier 2 & 3 support for escalated health and welfare issues not resolved by external vendors or the HRConnect service center.
• Assist with new employee orientation meetings in rotation with other HROperations team members
• Manage employee death processing related to notification of vendors, Workday updates and other external notifications needed
• Health Benefit support includes employees, eligible dependents, and retirees in the U.S.
• Contribute to HRConnect initiatives, projects, and goals.
• Other responsibilities, activities and projects as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Key AbbVie Competencies :

Key Stakeholders

Total Rewards, Business Human Resources, HRConnect, HR Communication, Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Legal, Consulting Partners

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law :  ​

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),  medical / dental / vision  insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled.

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