Benefits Specialist
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. So we need headings like "About the role" (maybe "About Us"? but they gave examples). We should include sections only if posting has real content.
We have content: About Us (company description). Could map to "About the role"? Actually "About Us" is about company, not role. But we can still include a section heading "About the role" maybe not appropriate. The instruction says use those headings as examples, not mandatory. We can choose appropriate headings based on content: "About the company" maybe not in list but we can still use . However they said use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It suggests those are typical headings; we can use others if needed but better to stick to those. We have content: Position Summary (could be "About the role"). Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities). Qualifications (Education, Licensure/Certification, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities). Skills maybe part of Qualifications. Benefits: they gave salary description but not benefits. They gave Work Environment (Location, Hybrid, Schedule). So we can have sections: About the role (Position Summary), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Work Environment (maybe Schedule and Location). Pay (Salary Description). Benefits: not provided besides salary? They didn't list benefits like health, retirement etc. So we should not create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does not list benefits; only salary. So omit Benefits.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Remove boilerplate: EEO, Disclaimer, etc. Also remove navigation etc. Not present.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So responsibilities list should be
- . Qualifications list also maybe
- . Skills also list.
We need to use
for prose.
We must not include job title heading. Not include Job ID.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's extract content:
About Us: "At Gifthealth, we're revolutionizing the way people experience healthcare by simplifying the process of managing prescriptions and health services. Our mission is to provide a seamless, personalized, and efficient healthcare experience for all our customers. We're a dynamic, innovative, and customer-centric company dedicated to making a positive impact on people's lives."
Position Summary: "The Benefits Specialist administers and supports the organization’s employee benefits programs, including health, welfare, retirement, and leave of absence programs. This role ensures accurate enrollment and maintenance of benefits data, provides guidance to employees and managers, supports open enrollment. We are seeking a Benefits Specialist to serve as a primary point of contact for benefits-related inquiries while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and policies. This position plays a key role in supporting the Total Rewards and HR teams to serve our employees’ benefits needs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, operational excellence, and compliance standards."
Key Responsibilities: list of items separated by line breaks. Let's capture each bullet:
- Administers employee benefit enrollments and eligibility by accurately entering and maintaining benefits data in the HRIS, ensuring timely and accurate eligibility information is provided to vendors and carriers
- Provides employee and manager support for benefits programs, responding to inquiries related to plan provisions, enrollments, status changes, claims issues, and general benefits guidance
- Coordinates benefits enrollments and life event changes, including enrolling employees with carriers, processing qualifying life status changes, and distributing benefits enrollment materials
- Conducts quality audits of benefits data to ensure accuracy, compliance, and consistency across systems, vendors, and carriers
- Processes and administers leave-of-absence, workers compensation, and disability programs, including medical, personal, FMLA, and ADA-related leaves, ensuring proper documentation, tracking, and compliance
- Interprets and applies FMLA and ADA requirements as they relate to employee leaves, accommodations, and disability matters, working closely with employees and managers as needed
- Supports retirement and annual enrollment programs, including responding to 401(k) inquiries, processing plan changes, and contribution updates, managing annual catch-up contributions, assisting with new-hire orientations, and supporting the open enrollment process
Qualifications: sections:
Education: Associate’s degree in HR or related field OR additional years of equivalent experience (Required)
Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field of study (Preferred)
Licensure/Certification: Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) or Certified Benefits Professional (Preferred)
Experience: 2-4 years of full-time benefits support and/or administration experience (Required)
Experience supporting open enrollment activities and working directly with brokers, carriers, and third-party administrators (Required)
Experience administering FMLA, medical, personal, and disability leaves, including documentation tracking and coordination with employees and vendors (Required)
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Knowledge of health and welfare benefits, retirement plans (e.g., 401(k)), and leave of absence programs, including eligibility, enrollment, and administration practices; benefits related laws and regulations such as FMLA, COBRA, ACA, HIPAA, and basic ADA considerations affecting benefits administration; and HRIS and benefits administration systems to maintain accurate employee data, enrollments, and vendor communications (Required)
Benefits administration skills (benefits open enrollments, qualifying life events, terminations, etc.) (Required)
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills (Required)
Attention to detail skills in ensuring data accuracy and timely carrier updates and auditing benefits data and identifying discrepancies to ensure compliance, accuracy, and consistency across systems (Required)
Ability to respond to benefits inquiries, explain plan provisions, and assist with claim or enrollment issues in a clear, service-oriented manner (Required)
Ability to manage multiple benefits deadlines and processes simultaneously, particularly during open enrollment and high-volume periods (Required)
Ability to research, resolve, and escalate benefits and leave issues as needed while maintaining confidentiality and follow-through (Required)
Ability to identify opportunities for improving benefits administration processes, documentation, or tools in a growing organization (Preferred)
Work Environment: Location: Hybrid
Schedule: 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday with night and weekend hours on occasion as determined by the needs of the business and cross-facility travel as needed
Regular meetings with employees and leaders at all levels of the organization across the enterprise. This role may also have meetings with external vendor and consultant partner representatives.
Key Essential Functions: list but maybe we can incorporate into Responsibilities? It's about physical requirements. Could be omitted? It's substantive but maybe not needed. However instructions: preserve ALL substantive information. So we should include it. Could be a section "Key Essential Functions" but not in examples. Could use
Key Essential Functions. But they said use those examples; but we can still use other headings? Safer to include as a section maybe "Key Essential Functions". However they said use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). That implies we should stick to those headings; but we could map Key Essential Functions to maybe "Requirements"? Not exactly. Could include as part of Responsibilities? Might be okay to omit? But they said preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include it somewhere. Could add a Key Essential Functions and list items.
Salary Description: "$68,000-$80,000"
We need Pay section.
Now construct HTML.
We'll have:
About the role
About Us content + Position Summary? Actually About the role could combine About Us and Position Summary. But we might split: About the company and Position Summary. However we have only one heading allowed? We can have multiple sections.
Let's do:
About the company
At Gifthealth, we're revolutionizing the way people experience healthcare by simplifying the process of managing prescriptions and health services. Our mission is to provide a seamless, personalized, and efficient healthcare experience for all our customers. We're a dynamic, innovative, and customer-centric company dedicated to making a positive impact on people's lives.
About the role
The Benefits Specialist administers and supports the organization’s employee benefits programs, including health, welfare, retirement, and leave of absence programs. This role ensures accurate enrollment and maintenance of benefits data, provides guidance to employees and managers, supports open enrollment. We are seeking a Benefits Specialist to serve as a primary point of contact for benefits-related inquiries while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and policies. This position plays a key role in supporting the Total Rewards and HR teams to serve our employees’ benefits needs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, operational excellence, and compliance standards.
Responsibilities
- Administers employee benefit enrollments and eligibility by accurately entering and maintaining benefits data in the HRIS, ensuring timely and accurate eligibility information is provided to vendors and carriers
- Provides employee and manager support for benefits programs, responding to inquiries related to plan provisions, enrollments, status changes, claims issues, and general benefits guidance
- Coordinates benefits enrollments and life event changes, including enrolling employees with carriers, processing qualifying life status changes, and distributing benefits enrollment materials
- Conducts quality audits of benefits data to ensure accuracy, compliance, and consistency across systems, vendors, and carriers
- Processes and administers leave-of-absence, workers compensation, and disability programs, including medical, personal, FMLA, and ADA-related leaves, ensuring proper documentation, tracking, and compliance
- Interprets and applies FMLA and ADA requirements as they relate to employee leaves, accommodations, and disability matters, working closely with employees and managers as needed
- Supports retirement and annual enrollment programs, including responding to 401(k) inquiries, processing plan changes, and contribution updates, managing annual catch-up contributions, assisting with new-hire orientations, and supporting the open enrollment process
Qualifications
We need to break into sub-sections? Could keep as list.
We'll make - for each bullet.
But we have categories: Education, Licensure/Certification, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities.
We could keep as
- each item.
Let's list:
- Education: Associate’s degree in HR or related field OR additional years of equivalent experience (Required)
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field of study (Preferred)
- Licensure/Certification: Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) or Certified Benefits Professional (Preferred)
- Experience: 2-4 years of full-time benefits support and/or administration experience (Required)
- Experience supporting open enrollment activities and working directly with brokers, carriers, and third-party administrators (Required)
- Experience administering FMLA, medical, personal, and disability leaves, including documentation tracking and coordination with employees and vendors (Required)
- Knowledge of health and welfare benefits, retirement plans (e.g., 401(k)), and leave of absence programs, including eligibility, enrollment, and administration practices; benefits related laws and regulations such as FMLA, COBRA, ACA, HIPAA, and basic ADA considerations affecting benefits administration; and HRIS and benefits administration systems to maintain accurate employee data, enrollments, and vendor communications (Required)
- Benefits administration skills (benefits open enrollments, qualifying life events, terminations, etc.) (Required)
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills (Required)
- Attention to detail skills in ensuring data accuracy and timely carrier updates and aud
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It suggests those are typical headings; we can use others if needed but better to stick to those. We have content: Position Summary (could be "About the role"). Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities). Qualifications (Education, Licensure/Certification, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities). Skills maybe part of Qualifications. Benefits: they gave salary description but not benefits. They gave Work Environment (Location, Hybrid, Schedule). So we can have sections: About the role (Position Summary), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Work Environment (maybe Schedule and Location). Pay (Salary Description). Benefits: not provided besides salary? They didn't list benefits like health, retirement etc. So we should not create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does not list benefits; only salary. So omit Benefits.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Remove boilerplate: EEO, Disclaimer, etc. Also remove navigation etc. Not present.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So responsibilities list should be
- . Qualifications list also maybe
- . Skills also list.
We need to use
for prose.
We must not include job title heading. Not include Job ID.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's extract content:
About Us: "At Gifthealth, we're revolutionizing the way people experience healthcare by simplifying the process of managing prescriptions and health services. Our mission is to provide a seamless, personalized, and efficient healthcare experience for all our customers. We're a dynamic, innovative, and customer-centric company dedicated to making a positive impact on people's lives."
Position Summary: "The Benefits Specialist administers and supports the organization’s employee benefits programs, including health, welfare, retirement, and leave of absence programs. This role ensures accurate enrollment and maintenance of benefits data, provides guidance to employees and managers, supports open enrollment. We are seeking a Benefits Specialist to serve as a primary point of contact for benefits-related inquiries while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and policies. This position plays a key role in supporting the Total Rewards and HR teams to serve our employees’ benefits needs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, operational excellence, and compliance standards."
Key Responsibilities: list of items separated by line breaks. Let's capture each bullet:
- Administers employee benefit enrollments and eligibility by accurately entering and maintaining benefits data in the HRIS, ensuring timely and accurate eligibility information is provided to vendors and carriers
- Provides employee and manager support for benefits programs, responding to inquiries related to plan provisions, enrollments, status changes, claims issues, and general benefits guidance
- Coordinates benefits enrollments and life event changes, including enrolling employees with carriers, processing qualifying life status changes, and distributing benefits enrollment materials
- Conducts quality audits of benefits data to ensure accuracy, compliance, and consistency across systems, vendors, and carriers
- Processes and administers leave-of-absence, workers compensation, and disability programs, including medical, personal, FMLA, and ADA-related leaves, ensuring proper documentation, tracking, and compliance
- Interprets and applies FMLA and ADA requirements as they relate to employee leaves, accommodations, and disability matters, working closely with employees and managers as needed
- Supports retirement and annual enrollment programs, including responding to 401(k) inquiries, processing plan changes, and contribution updates, managing annual catch-up contributions, assisting with new-hire orientations, and supporting the open enrollment process
Qualifications: sections:
Education: Associate’s degree in HR or related field OR additional years of equivalent experience (Required)
Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field of study (Preferred)
Licensure/Certification: Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) or Certified Benefits Professional (Preferred)
Experience: 2-4 years of full-time benefits support and/or administration experience (Required)
Experience supporting open enrollment activities and working directly with brokers, carriers, and third-party administrators (Required)
Experience administering FMLA, medical, personal, and disability leaves, including documentation tracking and coordination with employees and vendors (Required)
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Knowledge of health and welfare benefits, retirement plans (e.g., 401(k)), and leave of absence programs, including eligibility, enrollment, and administration practices; benefits related laws and regulations such as FMLA, COBRA, ACA, HIPAA, and basic ADA considerations affecting benefits administration; and HRIS and benefits administration systems to maintain accurate employee data, enrollments, and vendor communications (Required)
Benefits administration skills (benefits open enrollments, qualifying life events, terminations, etc.) (Required)
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills (Required)
Attention to detail skills in ensuring data accuracy and timely carrier updates and auditing benefits data and identifying discrepancies to ensure compliance, accuracy, and consistency across systems (Required)
Ability to respond to benefits inquiries, explain plan provisions, and assist with claim or enrollment issues in a clear, service-oriented manner (Required)
Ability to manage multiple benefits deadlines and processes simultaneously, particularly during open enrollment and high-volume periods (Required)
Ability to research, resolve, and escalate benefits and leave issues as needed while maintaining confidentiality and follow-through (Required)
Ability to identify opportunities for improving benefits administration processes, documentation, or tools in a growing organization (Preferred)
Work Environment: Location: Hybrid
Schedule: 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday with night and weekend hours on occasion as determined by the needs of the business and cross-facility travel as needed
Regular meetings with employees and leaders at all levels of the organization across the enterprise. This role may also have meetings with external vendor and consultant partner representatives.
Key Essential Functions: list but maybe we can incorporate into Responsibilities? It's about physical requirements. Could be omitted? It's substantive but maybe not needed. However instructions: preserve ALL substantive information. So we should include it. Could be a section "Key Essential Functions" but not in examples. Could use
Key Essential Functions. But they said use those examples; but we can still use other headings? Safer to include as a section maybe "Key Essential Functions". However they said use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). That implies we should stick to those headings; but we could map Key Essential Functions to maybe "Requirements"? Not exactly. Could include as part of Responsibilities? Might be okay to omit? But they said preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include it somewhere. Could add a Key Essential Functions and list items.
Salary Description: "$68,000-$80,000"
We need Pay section.
Now construct HTML.
We'll have:
About the role
About Us content + Position Summary? Actually About the role could combine About Us and Position Summary. But we might split: About the company and Position Summary. However we have only one heading allowed? We can have multiple sections.
Let's do:
About the company
At Gifthealth, we're revolutionizing the way people experience healthcare by simplifying the process of managing prescriptions and health services. Our mission is to provide a seamless, personalized, and efficient healthcare experience for all our customers. We're a dynamic, innovative, and customer-centric company dedicated to making a positive impact on people's lives.
About the role
The Benefits Specialist administers and supports the organization’s employee benefits programs, including health, welfare, retirement, and leave of absence programs. This role ensures accurate enrollment and maintenance of benefits data, provides guidance to employees and managers, supports open enrollment. We are seeking a Benefits Specialist to serve as a primary point of contact for benefits-related inquiries while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and policies. This position plays a key role in supporting the Total Rewards and HR teams to serve our employees’ benefits needs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, operational excellence, and compliance standards.
Responsibilities
- Administers employee benefit enrollments and eligibility by accurately entering and maintaining benefits data in the HRIS, ensuring timely and accurate eligibility information is provided to vendors and carriers
- Provides employee and manager support for benefits programs, responding to inquiries related to plan provisions, enrollments, status changes, claims issues, and general benefits guidance
- Coordinates benefits enrollments and life event changes, including enrolling employees with carriers, processing qualifying life status changes, and distributing benefits enrollment materials
- Conducts quality audits of benefits data to ensure accuracy, compliance, and consistency across systems, vendors, and carriers
- Processes and administers leave-of-absence, workers compensation, and disability programs, including medical, personal, FMLA, and ADA-related leaves, ensuring proper documentation, tracking, and compliance
- Interprets and applies FMLA and ADA requirements as they relate to employee leaves, accommodations, and disability matters, working closely with employees and managers as needed
- Supports retirement and annual enrollment programs, including responding to 401(k) inquiries, processing plan changes, and contribution updates, managing annual catch-up contributions, assisting with new-hire orientations, and supporting the open enrollment process
Qualifications
We need to break into sub-sections? Could keep as list.
We'll make - for each bullet.
But we have categories: Education, Licensure/Certification, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities.
We could keep as
- each item.
Let's list:
- Education: Associate’s degree in HR or related field OR additional years of equivalent experience (Required)
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field of study (Preferred)
- Licensure/Certification: Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) or Certified Benefits Professional (Preferred)
- Experience: 2-4 years of full-time benefits support and/or administration experience (Required)
- Experience supporting open enrollment activities and working directly with brokers, carriers, and third-party administrators (Required)
- Experience administering FMLA, medical, personal, and disability leaves, including documentation tracking and coordination with employees and vendors (Required)
- Knowledge of health and welfare benefits, retirement plans (e.g., 401(k)), and leave of absence programs, including eligibility, enrollment, and administration practices; benefits related laws and regulations such as FMLA, COBRA, ACA, HIPAA, and basic ADA considerations affecting benefits administration; and HRIS and benefits administration systems to maintain accurate employee data, enrollments, and vendor communications (Required)
- Benefits administration skills (benefits open enrollments, qualifying life events, terminations, etc.) (Required)
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills (Required)
- Attention to detail skills in ensuring data accuracy and timely carrier updates and aud
- . Qualifications list also maybe
- . Skills also list.
We need to use
for prose. We must not include job title heading. Not include Job ID. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's extract content: About Us: "At Gifthealth, we're revolutionizing the way people experience healthcare by simplifying the process of managing prescriptions and health services. Our mission is to provide a seamless, personalized, and efficient healthcare experience for all our customers. We're a dynamic, innovative, and customer-centric company dedicated to making a positive impact on people's lives." Position Summary: "The Benefits Specialist administers and supports the organization’s employee benefits programs, including health, welfare, retirement, and leave of absence programs. This role ensures accurate enrollment and maintenance of benefits data, provides guidance to employees and managers, supports open enrollment. We are seeking a Benefits Specialist to serve as a primary point of contact for benefits-related inquiries while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and policies. This position plays a key role in supporting the Total Rewards and HR teams to serve our employees’ benefits needs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, operational excellence, and compliance standards." Key Responsibilities: list of items separated by line breaks. Let's capture each bullet: - Administers employee benefit enrollments and eligibility by accurately entering and maintaining benefits data in the HRIS, ensuring timely and accurate eligibility information is provided to vendors and carriers - Provides employee and manager support for benefits programs, responding to inquiries related to plan provisions, enrollments, status changes, claims issues, and general benefits guidance - Coordinates benefits enrollments and life event changes, including enrolling employees with carriers, processing qualifying life status changes, and distributing benefits enrollment materials - Conducts quality audits of benefits data to ensure accuracy, compliance, and consistency across systems, vendors, and carriers - Processes and administers leave-of-absence, workers compensation, and disability programs, including medical, personal, FMLA, and ADA-related leaves, ensuring proper documentation, tracking, and compliance - Interprets and applies FMLA and ADA requirements as they relate to employee leaves, accommodations, and disability matters, working closely with employees and managers as needed - Supports retirement and annual enrollment programs, including responding to 401(k) inquiries, processing plan changes, and contribution updates, managing annual catch-up contributions, assisting with new-hire orientations, and supporting the open enrollment process Qualifications: sections: Education: Associate’s degree in HR or related field OR additional years of equivalent experience (Required) Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field of study (Preferred) Licensure/Certification: Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) or Certified Benefits Professional (Preferred) Experience: 2-4 years of full-time benefits support and/or administration experience (Required) Experience supporting open enrollment activities and working directly with brokers, carriers, and third-party administrators (Required) Experience administering FMLA, medical, personal, and disability leaves, including documentation tracking and coordination with employees and vendors (Required) Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Knowledge of health and welfare benefits, retirement plans (e.g., 401(k)), and leave of absence programs, including eligibility, enrollment, and administration practices; benefits related laws and regulations such as FMLA, COBRA, ACA, HIPAA, and basic ADA considerations affecting benefits administration; and HRIS and benefits administration systems to maintain accurate employee data, enrollments, and vendor communications (Required) Benefits administration skills (benefits open enrollments, qualifying life events, terminations, etc.) (Required) Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills (Required) Attention to detail skills in ensuring data accuracy and timely carrier updates and auditing benefits data and identifying discrepancies to ensure compliance, accuracy, and consistency across systems (Required) Ability to respond to benefits inquiries, explain plan provisions, and assist with claim or enrollment issues in a clear, service-oriented manner (Required) Ability to manage multiple benefits deadlines and processes simultaneously, particularly during open enrollment and high-volume periods (Required) Ability to research, resolve, and escalate benefits and leave issues as needed while maintaining confidentiality and follow-through (Required) Ability to identify opportunities for improving benefits administration processes, documentation, or tools in a growing organization (Preferred) Work Environment: Location: Hybrid Schedule: 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday with night and weekend hours on occasion as determined by the needs of the business and cross-facility travel as needed Regular meetings with employees and leaders at all levels of the organization across the enterprise. This role may also have meetings with external vendor and consultant partner representatives. Key Essential Functions: list but maybe we can incorporate into Responsibilities? It's about physical requirements. Could be omitted? It's substantive but maybe not needed. However instructions: preserve ALL substantive information. So we should include it. Could be a section "Key Essential Functions" but not in examples. Could use
Key Essential Functions. But they said use those examples; but we can still use other headings? Safer to include as a section maybe "Key Essential Functions". However they said use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). That implies we should stick to those headings; but we could map Key Essential Functions to maybe "Requirements"? Not exactly. Could include as part of Responsibilities? Might be okay to omit? But they said preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include it somewhere. Could add a
Key Essential Functions and list items. Salary Description: "$68,000-$80,000" We need Pay section. Now construct HTML. We'll have:
About the role
About Us content + Position Summary? Actually About the role could combine About Us and Position Summary. But we might split: About the company and Position Summary. However we have only one heading allowed? We can have multiple sections. Let's do:
About the company
At Gifthealth, we're revolutionizing the way people experience healthcare by simplifying the process of managing prescriptions and health services. Our mission is to provide a seamless, personalized, and efficient healthcare experience for all our customers. We're a dynamic, innovative, and customer-centric company dedicated to making a positive impact on people's lives.
About the role
The Benefits Specialist administers and supports the organization’s employee benefits programs, including health, welfare, retirement, and leave of absence programs. This role ensures accurate enrollment and maintenance of benefits data, provides guidance to employees and managers, supports open enrollment. We are seeking a Benefits Specialist to serve as a primary point of contact for benefits-related inquiries while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and policies. This position plays a key role in supporting the Total Rewards and HR teams to serve our employees’ benefits needs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, operational excellence, and compliance standards.
Responsibilities
- Administers employee benefit enrollments and eligibility by accurately entering and maintaining benefits data in the HRIS, ensuring timely and accurate eligibility information is provided to vendors and carriers
- Provides employee and manager support for benefits programs, responding to inquiries related to plan provisions, enrollments, status changes, claims issues, and general benefits guidance
- Coordinates benefits enrollments and life event changes, including enrolling employees with carriers, processing qualifying life status changes, and distributing benefits enrollment materials
- Conducts quality audits of benefits data to ensure accuracy, compliance, and consistency across systems, vendors, and carriers
- Processes and administers leave-of-absence, workers compensation, and disability programs, including medical, personal, FMLA, and ADA-related leaves, ensuring proper documentation, tracking, and compliance
- Interprets and applies FMLA and ADA requirements as they relate to employee leaves, accommodations, and disability matters, working closely with employees and managers as needed
- Supports retirement and annual enrollment programs, including responding to 401(k) inquiries, processing plan changes, and contribution updates, managing annual catch-up contributions, assisting with new-hire orientations, and supporting the open enrollment process
Qualifications
We need to break into sub-sections? Could keep as list. We'll make- for each bullet.
But we have categories: Education, Licensure/Certification, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities.
We could keep as
- each item. Let's list:
- Education: Associate’s degree in HR or related field OR additional years of equivalent experience (Required)
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field of study (Preferred)
- Licensure/Certification: Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) or Certified Benefits Professional (Preferred)
- Experience: 2-4 years of full-time benefits support and/or administration experience (Required)
- Experience supporting open enrollment activities and working directly with brokers, carriers, and third-party administrators (Required)
- Experience administering FMLA, medical, personal, and disability leaves, including documentation tracking and coordination with employees and vendors (Required)
- Knowledge of health and welfare benefits, retirement plans (e.g., 401(k)), and leave of absence programs, including eligibility, enrollment, and administration practices; benefits related laws and regulations such as FMLA, COBRA, ACA, HIPAA, and basic ADA considerations affecting benefits administration; and HRIS and benefits administration systems to maintain accurate employee data, enrollments, and vendor communications (Required)
- Benefits administration skills (benefits open enrollments, qualifying life events, terminations, etc.) (Required)
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills (Required)
- Attention to detail skills in ensuring data accuracy and timely carrier updates and aud
- . Skills also list.
We need to use