Director of Benefits

RaceTrac Petroleum, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

RaceTrac Petroleum, Inc. is seeking an experienced Director of Benefits to shape strategy across a growing, multi-brand organization.

You will lead enterprise strategy, governance, and administration of health and welfare, retirement, leave, time off, wellness, and employee support programs. This highly visible leadership role aligns enterprise standards with brand needs, ensuring programs are compliant, scalable, and financially responsible.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the enterprise benefits strategy across multiple brands and employee populations.
• Lead the design, evaluation, and evolution of health and welfare, retirement, wellness, leave, time off, and employee support programs.
• Establish enterprise standards and governance for consistency and scalability while recognizing brand-specific needs.
• Monitor market trends, regulatory changes, workforce demographics, and emerging practices to keep programs competitive and relevant.
• Use data on utilization, engagement, cost, and employee experience to evaluate program effectiveness and identify opportunities.

Job description

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We're looking for an experienced Director of Benefits to shape the strategy and future direction of benefits across a growing, multi-brand organization. The Director of Benefits will lead the enterprise strategy, governance, administration, and continued evolution of our health and welfare, retirement, leave, time off, wellness, and employee support programs. This is a highly visible leadership role with the opportunity to influence how benefits evolve across multiple brands and employee populations. The Director will balance enterprise consistency with individual brand needs while ensuring programs remain competitive, compliant, financially responsible, scalable, and meaningful to employees. The ideal leader brings both strategic benefits expertise and strong operational leadership, with the ability to build for the future while ensuring programs work effectively today. This role is based in Atlanta, GA with hybrid office requirements. For this role 4-5 days a week are expected in our office. Relocation will be considered for this role.

What You'll Lead:

Enterprise Benefits Strategy & Program Design

• Set and execute the enterprise benefits strategy across multiple brands and employee populations.
• Lead the design, evaluation, and continued evolution of health and welfare, retirement, wellness, leave, time off, and employee support programs.
• Establish enterprise standards and governance that create consistency and scalability while recognizing brand-specific needs.
• Monitor market trends, legislative changes, workforce demographics, and emerging practices to keep programs competitive and relevant.
• Use utilization, engagement, cost, and employee experience data to evaluate program effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.

Multi-Brand Integration & Harmonization

• Lead benefits, leave, and time-off integration for newly acquired or affiliated brands.
• Assess existing programs, identify gaps and risks, and develop recommendations for future-state design and harmonization.
• Build scalable enterprise frameworks that support efficient administration across different brands and employee populations.
• Partner with HR leadership on program transitions, integration strategies, and implementation.

Benefits Operations & Employee Experience

• Oversee enterprise administration of health and welfare, retirement, leave, time off, wellness, and employee support programs.
• Ensure accurate, timely, and consistent service through internal teams, shared services, third-party administrators, and external partners.
• Establish service standards and performance measures that support a strong employee experience.
• Champion process improvement and automation that increase efficiency, reduce risk, and improve scalability.
• Lead annual enrollment and benefits education and communication strategies that help employees understand and maximize the value of their programs.

Leave, Retirement & Employee Well-being

• Provide enterprise oversight for statutory and company-sponsored leave and time-off programs, including disability, parental, military, and accommodation-related programs.
• Lead retirement strategy, including 401(k) plan design, governance, administration, fiduciary oversight, compliance, and vendor management.
• Shape wellness and well‑being programs supporting employees' physical, financial, emotional, and social health.
• Oversee employee assistance, hardship and support funds, and other programs designed to support employee well‑being.

Compliance, Governance & Financial Stewardship

• Ensure compliance with applicable benefits, retirement, leave, and privacy requirements, including ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA, and federal, state, and local regulations.
• Oversee audits, regulatory reporting, plan filings, governance activities, controls, and documentation.
• Partner with Legal and Compliance to evaluate regulatory changes and implement necessary program changes.
• Lead relationships and negotiations with brokers, consultants, carriers, TPAs, wellness providers, and retirement partners.
• Manage benefits and wellness budgets while balancing employee value, market competitiveness, and organizational cost.

Leadership & Partnership

• Lead and develop the team responsible for benefits, leave, time off, retirement, and employee support programs.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR leadership and senior business leaders on benefits strategy, employee experience, compliance, risk, and integration priorities.
• Build strong partnerships across Finance, Payroll, Legal, HR Technology, Shared Services, vendors, and business leadership.
• Create accountability and drive continuous improvement across benefits programs and service delivery.

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