Employee Benefits Client Manager, Advisory & Consulting

About the role

With some guidance and or direction, leads client service for middle market clients, and supports large market clients often collaborating closely with senior colleagues on strategy design and renewal messaging.

Clients are often fully insured, or level funded with 50 to 250 enrolled EEs, and generate $25k or more in EB revenue.

Assigned book between $700K to $1.2M in EB rev.

Responsibilities

• Manage client strategy planning and contributes to program and coverage recommendations.
• Supports RFP process, carrier negotiations and carrier contract reviews for fully insured clients typically between $25k to $100k in revenue.
• Build using EB tools and templates benchmarking, financial dashboards, projections, and other financial analysis and assist in presenting insights and recommendations.
• Lead client and vendor meetings and calls (such as Carrier implementation) and conducting knowledgeable and engaging open enrollment meetings (both in-person and virtually).
• Create and edit open enrollment communication templates.
• Communicate the value of WIA EB Subject Matter Experts and knowing when to engage them.

Additional Duties

• Take and resolve calls/emails from clients and or members, related to claims, billing, EOB and coverages.

Work Experience

Understanding of fully insured, level-funded, and simple self-funding concepts.

Identifying trends and patterns in data sets and understanding their implications for clients’ health plans.

Project management skills in collaborating with colleagues, carriers, vendors, and SMEs to deliver on client service plans.

Excel and PowerPoint, with developing knowledge and application of EB analytics tools, models, and capabilities.

Effective communicator, tailoring writing and speaking styles to convey messages and ideas to varied audiences to build understanding and commitment.

Developing knowledge around vendor/solutions/products outside of traditional insurance products.

People Management

Individual contributor; may provide general guidance/direction to more junior staff informally.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (Proficient)

• Understanding of fully insured, level-funded, and simple self-funding concepts.
• Identifying trends and patterns in data sets and understanding their implications for clients’ health plans.
• Project management skills in collaborating with colleagues, carriers, vendors, and SMEs to deliver on client service plans.
• Excel and PowerPoint, with developing knowledge and application of EB analytics tools, models, and capabilities.
• Effective communicator, tailoring writing and speaking styles to convey messages and ideas to varied audiences to build understanding and commitment.
• Developing knowledge around vendor/solutions/products outside of traditional insurance products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, but equivalent work experience would be considered.

Skills

• Must hold state life and health insurance license.

Physical Demands

Office work involves working at a desk most of the time, using a stand-up/sit-down adjustable desk. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. Typing, grasping, and repetitive motion typically is required every day, and walking and standing are required occasionally.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At World Insurance Associates (WIA), we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our products, and our community to flourish. WIA is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or Veteran status. In addition, WIA makes reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Application Instructions

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