Benefits Manager

Benefits Manager - full time/direct hire!Manages daily activities in the organizations benefits function.Essential Duties and Responsibilities• Evaluates and selects employee benefits (including health insurance, life insurance, profit sharing, disability, pension, or retirement plans) with the goal of creating an attractive and competitive benefits program.• Collects data on industry standards and practices to determine competitive positioning of theorganizations benefit offerings.• Regularly renegotiates or re-evaluates vendors in search of opportunities for cost-saving.• Manages open enrollment: schedules and leads meetings or information sessions, drafts and sends employee communications, answers questions or inquiries, and transmits enrollment data to vendors or administrators.• Ensure the accuracy of all benefits enrollments in the system to provide accurate deductions for the client.• Manages a team.• Performs quality checks of benefits-related data.• Coordinates the design and communication of annual benefit enrollment materials, compliancedocumentation (SPDs, SARs).• Prepares bid specification and analyzes proposals for vendor carrier contracts.• Responds to client benefit inquiriesKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities• Ability to foster teamwork.• Management skills.• Oral and written communication skills.• Analytical thinking skills.• Statistical knowledge.• Ability to meet deadlines.• Mathematical skills