HRConnect Senior Specialist, Benefits (Leave Specialist)

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): S