Total Rewards Consultant - Benefits Lead - Hybrid

About the role

Strategic internal consultant leading employee benefit initiatives to deliver the highest levels of service, as well as influence and improve departmental policies and procedures. Works closely with Benefits Manager and is responsible for developing and managing relationships with our vendor partners to create and deploy competitive strategies and objectives to provide effective, cost efficient and competitive platform of benefits to the employees of the Health System.

Responsibilities

• Administers integrated and comprehensive health and wellness strategies that align with our Vision, Mission and Values.
• Responsible for providing plan administration, participant communications and customer service of the health systems benefit plans. Will service as the lead for communications creation, support, and review with the communications team.
• Leads and oversees any acquisition and integration processes and serves as a content expert related to all benefits enrollments.
• Manages all compliance practices including ACA tracking.
• Leads testing of benefit system implementations and configuration changes.
• Completes benefit surveys on behalf of the benefits department.
• Resolves employee questions and problems by interpreting benefit policies and procedures.
• Reconciles benefits accounts by approving billing statements.
• Prepares special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Administers health, dental, and vision plans, premium rates, group life, and voluntary programs.
• Researches and recommends cost containment strategies and options, utilizing consultant and carrier provided analysis and information.
• Supports management's decision making by analyzing benefit options and predicting future costs.
• Serves as the first escalation point for the benefits team related to member benefit questions or inquiries that require additional guidance or support.
• Ensures compliance with State and Federal benefit guidelines and regulations through regular review process and educates team of any pertinent updates.
• Networks across organization to build strong partnerships, gain trust and successfully deploy programs and initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related field of study from an accredited college or university.
• 7 or more years of Human Resources experience or related experience.
• 3 or more years of experience specific to Health and Welfare Benefits with a large employer with 3,000 employees or more.

Skills

• Demonstrated advanced knowledge of Health and Welfare Benefits design, administration, and compliance.
• Excellent computer skills and Microsoft Office.
• Demonstrated excellence and expertise in knowledge of HR Systems and Benefits vendor applications.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and ensuring privacy rules.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, ability to multi-task, and maintain a high level of accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines in a fast paced and challenging environment.