Health Team Leader
- Full-Time
- Lincolnshire, IL
- Alight
- Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Our story starts with a simple universal truth: Every business is a people business. Our people are our greatest assets at Alight Solutions because People Matter! We strive for Excellence Every Day by collaborating with our clients and colleagues. At Alight, we Think Forward and we Act Now to shape the future of work and life for organizations, people and their families! Alight has 25 years of industry experience. Our success is fueled by the expertise of our people, and the strength of our proprietary and partner technology. Come join the leading technology-enabled HR and benefits service provider. Be Real with Alight and help us reimagine how people and organizations thrive.
The Team Leader is a crucial role within a client delivery group because they are accountable for leading their team(s) to deliver the highest of quality solutions for their clients. The teams they manage will draft air-tight business rules, ensure quality assurance fundamentals and product delivery are executed flawlessly, and perform ongoing delivery tasks. They are responsible for the unit management of their team by developing plans which allow for the evolution of a well-rounded health colleague. The Team Leader will be responsible for all aspects of delivery to ensure customer and client satisfaction as well as the retention and expansion of business. They will understand key HW domain fundamentals, act as a main contact for client interaction, and ensure risk mitigation plans are in place and Service Level
Agreements are met.
What will be expected of you?
Change Management:
- Drives change across the domain/solution by incorporating feedback to improve how teams and internal partners operate, prioritize work and delivers projects creatively with fixed capacity and high quality while leveraging best practices.
- Manages broad organization-wide projects on behalf of solution leadership. Ensures that projects are evaluated for cross-domain impact and managed accordingly.
- Stakeholder and Relationship Management:
- Partners with other leaders in the domain to influence strategy and achieve objectives.
- Owns communication of escalations, risks, issues (including E&Os), and priorities across external and internal stake holders.
- Effectively consults with clients on core delivery and new projects.
Project Delivery Management:
- Manages the Performance team using metrics and data with focus on project delivery, continuous improvement, confluence, and ownership of defect management or other applicable work packages.
- Ensures proper change order management from project initiation to transition to ongoing including requirements, system development, testing, and integration with Customer Care, Point Solutions, Shared Services and other applicable parties.
- May facilitate the creation and revisions of the iteration plan with the team. Collaborates with others to set milestones for the current iteration.
- May manage the overall iteration plan for the team and determine capacity and prioritization of work in the current iteration.
- Plans out deployment tasks, security audits, and UPoint releases
- Monitors progress against the team’s iteration plans.
- Clearly articulates project health and identifies specific actions, deadlines and accountabilities when course correction is needed.
- Implements and monitors standard operations practices across the solution; adherence to and guides other managers on the use of best practices, proactive management of dashboard measures, scorecard, improvement plans, and adjustments to operations staffing.
- Integrates Core and Customer Care resources to provide seamless participant resolution support with a focus on participant experience.
- Partners with other Team Leaders to evaluate trends in the root cause analysis for defects and client escalations and translate them into ongoing delivery improvement initiatives.
- Working with internal partners, identifies and implements improvements to ongoing procedures, relationships, and training.
- Accountable for transition to ongoing and supports Client Acceptance Testing for an iteration.
- Owns defect management for defects owned by the core delivery team.
Quality Management:
- Sets quality expectations and goals that can be used across the solution, leveraging the operating system, collaborating with the team and other groups where appropriate. Identifies process and training improvements and manages projects with a focus on quality and capacity creation.
- Reviews quality reports and metrics to ensure high quality software delivery.
Leadership:
- Drives the improvement of team and other managers’ performance by motivating and driving SMART goals aligned to Health goals.
- Builds relationships, assesses performance, provides career and development coaching, manages pay, and improves colleague engagement.
- Partnering with leadership, builds talent pipeline across the domain. Within own team, partners with colleagues to determine growth opportunities with a focus on building unmatched talent
- Ensures team members have a training plan where skill development is needed and leads training/skill development across the solution.
- Creates channels for colleague retention and career opportunities
- Champion of the Alight Operating System
- Living the Alight Core Values: People Matter, Excellence Every Day, Think Forward, Act Now and Be Real
- Completes ongoing coursework to support continued personal development
- Participates and supports firm-wide training courses for colleague development
- Can perform spot project work on client teams outside their main alignment or can participate in other firm wide initiatives
- Promotes a culture of ‘Asking Why or Why Not?’, building continuous improvement
By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.
Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Alight believes diversity should be visible, valued, and sustained throughout the organization. And we’re committed to enabling an inclusive culture of belonging that engages all colleagues and grows the diversity of our talent to proudly represent the clients and communities we serve.
As an affirmative action employer, we adhere to the principles of equal employment opportunity in the workplace as defined in our diversity policy statement.
Diversity Policy Statement
Alight does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, gender, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans.
Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting his/her recruiter.
Authorization to work in the Employing Country
Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight.
Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
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DISCLAIMER:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.