Benefits Manager

Benefits Manager - full time/direct hire!

Manages daily activities in the organization's 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 the

organization's 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, compliance

documentation (SPDs, SARs).

• Prepares bid specification and analyzes proposals for vendor carrier contracts.

• Responds to client benefit inquiries

Knowledge, 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