Director of Benefits

  • Location: Bloomington, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52893

Our client is seeking a strategic and collaborative Director of Benefits to lead the design, delivery, and evolution of a comprehensive U.S. and global benefits portfolio. Reporting to the senior leader of Total Rewards, this highly visible role partners closely with executive leadership to develop innovative benefits strategies that enhance employee well-being while supporting long-term business objectives.

This leader will balance strategic planning with operational excellence, leading a high-performing team while driving enterprise-wide initiatives related to healthcare, retirement, wellness, compliance, and HR technology.

Job Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute the organization’s long-term benefits strategy, including health, welfare, retirement, and wellness programs.

  • Lead enterprise initiatives focused on healthcare strategy, retirement program enhancements, employee well-being, and HR technology optimization.

  • Oversee day-to-day administration of benefits programs across a geographically dispersed workforce, including annual enrollment and program governance.

  • Partner with Finance, HR, Payroll, HRIS, Legal, Communications, and executive leadership to ensure programs remain competitive, compliant, and financially sustainable.

  • Manage relationships with brokers, consultants, carriers, and third-party administrators, including vendor selection, contract negotiations, and performance management.

  • Ensure compliance with all applicable federal and state regulations while maintaining strong governance and audit readiness.

  • Develop, coach, and mentor a collaborative Benefits team while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and exceptional employee service.

  • Utilize data and analytics to evaluate program performance, improve the employee experience, and support executive decision-making.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is an experienced benefits leader who combines strategic vision with a hands-on, practical approach to execution. They are a trusted business partner who can confidently influence senior leaders, navigate complex organizational environments, and build strong relationships across the enterprise.

Qualified candidates will bring:

  • 8+ years of progressive benefits leadership experience, including people leadership within a complex, multi-site organization.

  • Deep expertise in health, welfare, retirement, and wellness program design, administration, and compliance.

  • Strong knowledge of ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, COBRA, leave regulations, and benefits governance.

  • Experience managing vendors, consultants, and benefit partners while balancing employee experience with financial stewardship.

  • Exceptional analytical, communication, and executive presentation skills.

  • Experience supporting manufacturing, distribution, logistics, retail, or other geographically dispersed workforces is preferred, along with exposure to Workday and global benefits programs.

Engineering Manager

  • Location: Monticello , Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52892

SkyWater Search is partnering with a long-standing manufacturing client on a Engineering Manager search in the northwest metro. This individual will provide leadership across engineering, manufacturing engineering, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives while serving as a key member of the site’s leadership team. The position offers a blend of strategic leadership and hands-on operational involvement, with responsibility for driving process improvements, operational excellence initiatives, automation strategy, and team development.

Billing Manager

  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52890

I’m partnering exclusively with my healthcare client to fill a newly-created Billing Manager position.  This position has been created due to their growth.  I know this team well as I’ve placed 6 people here in the last year.  I’m looking for candidates who can lead the billing team, manage billing escalations and service clients directly with a white glove approach.  This is a fully remote position, but candidates must be in the Chicagoland area.  I’m looking for candidates with 5 years of billing experience and experience using NetSuite.

 

Sr. Electrical Engineer

  • Location: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52888

An established and innovative manufacturer of premium electromechanical products is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to play a key role in the development of next-generation products from concept through production.

This position offers the opportunity to work on highly visible new product development initiatives, collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams to design, prototype, validate, and launch products used by customers around the world. The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex technical challenges, working across hardware and embedded systems, and influencing product architecture from the earliest stages of development.

Strategic Sourcing Manager

  • Location: Alpharetta , Georgia
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52887

A leading manufacturer of premium engineered consumer products is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to lead sourcing initiatives across multiple direct material commodity categories. This highly visible role will develop and execute sourcing strategies that improve cost, quality, supplier performance, and supply continuity while supporting new product development and long-term operational growth.

Working closely with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Product Development, you’ll help shape supplier strategy, influence product design decisions, and strengthen a global supply base that supports innovation and manufacturing excellence.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced sourcing professional who enjoys balancing strategic supplier partnerships with hands-on execution in a collaborative manufacturing environment.

Strategic Sourcing Manager

  • Location: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52886

A leading manufacturer of premium engineered consumer products is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to lead sourcing initiatives across multiple direct material commodity categories. This highly visible role will develop and execute sourcing strategies that improve cost, quality, supplier performance, and supply continuity while supporting new product development and long-term operational growth.

Working closely with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Product Development, you’ll help shape supplier strategy, influence product design decisions, and strengthen a global supply base that supports innovation and manufacturing excellence.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced sourcing professional who enjoys balancing strategic supplier partnerships with hands-on execution in a collaborative manufacturing environment.

Manufacturing Engineer II

  • Location: Hillside, Illinois
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52885

A leading industrial manufacturing organization in the western Chicago suburbs is hiring a Manufacturing Engineer I or II to support established production lines, process improvement initiatives, tooling upgrades, and product launch activity.

This is a hands-on, floor-facing role for someone who enjoys solving real manufacturing problems. The right person will be comfortable working around manual assembly processes, tooling, fixtures, legacy equipment, and cross-functional production teams.

The Manufacturing Engineer will support assigned product lines from development through production, troubleshoot process and tooling issues, coordinate engineering changes, develop and maintain work instructions and process documentation, and help drive Lean manufacturing initiatives. Key areas of focus include cycle time reduction, line balancing, workstation improvements, safety, quality, material flow, and corrective action implementation.

Ideal candidates will bring 1–6 years of manufacturing engineering experience in automotive, industrial products, food, medical device, or another established manufacturing environment. Experience with Kaizen, 5S, SMED, value stream mapping, time studies, PFMEA, process flow diagrams, root cause analysis, 5 Whys, 8D, and AutoCAD or similar CAD tools is highly relevant.

This is a strong opportunity for a manufacturing engineer who wants ownership, visibility, and the chance to make practical improvements that show up directly on the production floor.

Senior Marketing Manager

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52880

SkyWater Search is partnering with Omni Workspace to hire a Senior Marketing Manager to build the sales enablement engine for its business development teams. This is a player/coach seat: the person in this role collaborates with the Vice President of Marketing to set the marketing strategy and personally builds the work: proposal templates, RFP/RFI content libraries, account-based marketing programs, and competitive positioning materials. 
 

Omni Workspace is a market leader in commercial interiors and workplace solutions, serving corporate, healthcare, education, hospitality, and sports organizations through a growing portfolio of brands: Atmosphere Commercial Interiors, Aurora Procurement Solutions, Emerald Blue, Meso Built, and Turnkey Project Services. Atmosphere is by far the largest and highest-volume brand in the portfolio; the others are growing quickly and require the same level of marketing investment and attention.

Today, Omni’s marketing function includes regional marketing specialists (Minneapolis, Madison WI, Phoenix AZ) supporting all six brands under a shared-services model, a Brand and Creative Manager, a Social Media/Content Strategist, and freelance support for copywriting and creative production. 

 

What You’ll Own In This Role:

 

Sales Enablement Content

– Build proposals, case studies, ROI calculators, competitive positioning

  materials, and brand-specific value propositions.

– Own RFP/RFI strategy, content libraries, and process, including AI-assisted response workflows to speed up turnaround and improve consistency.

– Design and deliver sales training on brand messaging, competitive differentiation, and how to use the assets you build.

 

Revenue-Linked Marketing Operations

– Build a formalized, trackable lead-to-revenue methodology in partnership with sales

  leadership.

– Run regular pipeline reviews and campaigns aligned to sales’ opportunity stages.

– Design and run account-based marketing programs for key strategic accounts.

 

Brand & Content Production

– Write and produce sales-facing and external content across all six brands: proposals, case studies, project highlights, thought leadership, newsletters, and press releases (Omni issues these frequently given its acquisition and expansion pace).

– Maintain a critical eye for brand tone and visual consistency across a multi-brand portfolio.

– Contribute directly to design execution (Adobe Illustrator, Canva or similar); this is not a formally trained design role, but visual literacy is required.

– Manage photography vendor relationships for project and case-study visuals. 

 

Systems & Process

– Help lead the transition from Salesforce to Microsoft Dynamics from a marketing operations standpoint; CRM experience (either platform, or a comparable one) required.

– Evaluate and improve marketing automation capacity (an identified gap and a near-term priority).

– Help the team get full value from its project management platform 

 

What We’re Looking For

– 10–15 years of B2B marketing experience.

– Direct, hands-on experience building sales enablement infrastructure in a complex, relationship-driven B2B sales cycle, proposal-building experience specifically is the single most important qualifier for this team.

– Experience in commercial interiors, commercial real estate, architecture, design, or construction is strongly preferred. This industry background directly maps to the kind of collateral (proposals, RFPs, project visuals) this role owns day-to-day.

– Comfortable as a true player/coach: sets strategy and does the work personally.

– A systems-thinking orientation: able to build and document processes so that institutional knowledge doesn’t live in one person’s head.

– Comfort with ambiguity and fast-shifting priorities; Omni’s business is seasonal and reactive by nature (proposal timing is largely client-driven).

– CRM experience (Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar) and familiarity with marketing automation platforms.

– Financial acumen: experience managing a marketing budget and speaking to ROI.

– Strong writing skills and working design proficiency (Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, or similar).

 

Nice to have:

– Experience across a multi-brand or multi-region portfolio.

– MBA or advanced degree.

– Prior people leadership experience (this role is expected to take on direct reports as the team structure evolves).

 

Principal HR Business Partner

  • Location: Minneapolis , Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52879

Our client is a well-established Minneapolis-based organization, is seeking multiple Principal HR Business Partners to join their HR Business Partner team. These roles support a specialized technical division and Distribution/Operations, reporting to a Director of HR Business Partners. This is a high-visibility opportunity for a strategic HR leader ready to influence at the senior leadership level and help elevate an already strong team.

This isn’t an order-taking HRBP seat. With direct access to senior business leaders and a mandate to shape talent strategy rather than just execute it, this role is built for someone who wants to operate as a true consultant and change agent, not a transaction processor. Add in a collaborative, high-retention culture and real runway to influence at the executive level, and this is the kind of seat strategic HR leaders don’t often get the chance to step into.

Director of Client Development

  • Location: Minnetonka, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52878

Director of Client Development & Operations with a High-Growth CRE Advisory Firm

A fast-growing, boutique advisory firm in the commercial real estate and tax-advantaged investment space is seeking a Director of Client Development & Operations to partner directly with firm leadership.

This individual will serve as the execution backbone of the business, owning client deliverables, managing active engagements, and ensuring seamless coordination across complex, multi-party transactions.

Day one responsibilities include preparing client-facing materials, managing timelines across concurrent deals, and driving follow-through on critical workstreams. Over time, this role evolves into leading client conversations, managing partner relationships, and taking ownership of deal execution.

Key requirements:

  • 7+ years in commercial real estate, financial advisory, or related transaction environments
  • Strong understanding of real estate transactions, leases, and underwriting concepts
  • Proven ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders
  • Exceptional attention to detail and process orientation
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment

This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performance, founder-led firm where your work directly impacts growth, client outcomes, and firm trajectory.

If interested, please apply or contact Jamende@skywatersearch.com

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