Remote Lead, Retirement Benefits & Financial Wellness

Newell Brands; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 84,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Newell Brands is seeking a Lead, Retirement Benefits to steer the company’s defined contribution programs and employee financial wellbeing strategy. This remote role guides governance, plan administration, compliance, vendor management, and analytics to drive retirement readiness and financial security across the workforce.

Reporting to the Director, Benefits, you will own dashboards, scorecards, and strategic communications, partnering with Total Rewards and cross-functional teams to deliver

Qualifications

• 4+ years of progressively responsible experience in retirement benefits, employee benefits, retirement plan administration, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of defined contribution plans and applicable ERISA, Internal Revenue Code, fiduciary, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated experience setting program priorities and leading retirement plan operations, governance, compliance, vendor management, audits, internal controls, escalated issue resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing employee financial wellbeing, financial security, or retirement readiness strategies with defined objectives, measurable outcomes, and integrated communications and education.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data validation, reconciliation, analysis, and reporting; experience with HRIS, payroll interfaces, retirement recordkeeping platforms, business intelligence, or dashboard tools.

Responsibilities

• Executes strategic direction and operating priorities for the company’s defined contribution benefit plan, balancing employee needs, fiduciary responsibilities, financial stewardship, operational excellence, and alignment with the broader Total Rewards strategy.
• Lead end-to-end retirement plan administration and governance; establish annual objectives, operating standards, decision frameworks, risk controls, and performance expectations to ensure accurate, compliant, and efficient program delivery.
• Own relationships with recordkeepers, trustees, actuaries, consultants, and other partners; direct governance routines, evaluate performance and fees, enforce service-level commitments, resolve escalated issues, and hold vendors accountable for timely corrective action and continuous improvement.
• Manage annual compliance, fiduciary, and governance activities, including nondiscrimination testing, contribution limit monitoring, government filings, participant notices, plan audits, committee materials, and required data collection; elevate material risks and ensure timely remediation.
• Execute a comprehensive employee financial wellbeing and financial security strategy that improves retirement readiness across key financial life stages. Assess workforce needs and behaviors, establish priorities and measurable goals, and integrate retirement savings, emergency savings, budgeting, debt management, investing, and retirement income education with broader Total Rewards and business objectives.
• Lead the design process, implementation, and ongoing management of financial wellbeing programs, tools, resources, and vendor solutions. Establish the program roadmap, prioritize initiatives, sponsor change, address service gaps, and ensure offerings are accessible, inclusive, relevant, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Define and monitor financial wellbeing success measures, including engagement, utilization, retirement preparedness, savings behaviors, and employee outcomes. Use workforce insights to direct targeted interventions and present recommendations to Total Rewards leadership on program priorities and investments.
• Act as the retirement benefits subject matter expert for employee communications and education; set the communication and education strategy, approve content, guide campaigns and events, and partner with internal stakeholders and vendors to deliver clear, accurate, engaging, and inclusive decision-support resources.
• Own the quarterly retirement plan dashboard and scorecard; establish key performance, risk, service, and employee outcome measures; validate insights; and present trends, emerging issues, and recommended actions to Total Rewards leadership and plan governance committees.
• Direct analysis of plan, participant, demographic, payroll, and vendor data to identify trends, risks, disparities, and opportunities; translate findings into strategic recommendations and ensure agreed actions are implemented and measured.
• Maintain management oversight of reconciliations, corrections, controls, procedures, plan records, calendars, and audit-ready documentation; assign accountability, monitor issue resolution, identify root causes, and sponsor sustainable preventive improvements.
• Monitor legislative, regulatory, market, and industry developments; assess strategic, plan, operational, financial, and communication impacts; brief leadership; and lead implementation of required or recommended changes.

Skills

Retirement benefits experience

Defined contribution plan knowledge

Program leadership

Financial wellbeing strategy

Excel & BI tools

Tools

HRIS

BI/Dashboard tools

Job description

Newell Brands is seeking a Lead, Retirement Benefits to steer the company’s defined contribution programs and employee financial wellbeing strategy. This remote role guides governance, plan administration, compliance, vendor management, and analytics to drive retirement readiness and financial security across the workforce.

Reporting to the Director, Benefits, you will own dashboards, scorecards, and strategic communications, partnering with Total Rewards and cross-functional teams to deliver