Manager, Leave Administration

Location: Mettawa, IL; hybrid workplace

Salary: $87,800–$117,000 annually, plus eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a global marine industry company developing recreational products and technologies.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop the Leave Administration team; establish service levels, performance metrics, quality standards, workload management, and escalation processes.
• Oversee FMLA, ADA accommodations, short- and long-term disability, military, paid family, personal, company-sponsored, and other statutory and non-statutory leave programs.
• Manage timely review, approval, tracking, return-to-work processing, and complex or escalated leave cases.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, audit-ready documentation, legislative-change implementation, and risk management in partnership with Legal and Employee Relations.
• Act as the Workday and related-systems subject matter expert, maintaining accurate leave transactions, tracking, reporting, data integrity, and standard operating procedures.
• Partner with Payroll, Benefits, HR Business Partners, managers, vendors, and HR leadership on pay impacts, benefits coordination, workforce planning, dashboards, trends, and process improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, including 2+ years of people leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of FMLA, ADA, disability management, and leave regulations.
• Experience managing leave processes in Workday or a comparable HRIS.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Nice to have

• Experience in a shared services environment.
• Professional certification such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, or Certified Leave Management Specialist (CLMS).
• Experience working with third-party leave administrators.
• Advanced reporting and HR analytics experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid vacation, 401(k) with up to a 4% company match, Health Savings Account with company contribution, well-being programs, and product purchase discounts.
• Growth and development opportunities across hirify.global and its brands.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, equal opportunity, and accommodation support during the application or interview process.
• hirify.global participates in E-Verify and does not accept applications or solicitations from unapproved staffing agencies or vendors.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted through the hirify.global careers candidate portal; offers are delivered through the candidate portal.
• Applicants needing accommodation during the application or interview process can contact HR Shared Services for support.