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Senior Benefit Specialist

Senior Benefit Specialist

CompanyAmerican Family Insurance Group
LocationMadison, WI, USA, Boston, MA, USA, St Joseph, MO, USA, Eden Prairie, MN, USA, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Denver, CO, USA, Brattleboro, VT, USA
Salary$86000 – $142000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.
  • Demonstrated experience consulting management on business performance measures.
  • Demonstrated experience counseling, consulting, negotiating to guide strategic business decisions across all levels of management.
  • Demonstrated experience managing company benefit plan offerings, including health and welfare, retirement, paid time off and leave programs.
  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of benefit-related government rules and regulations and governance and their impact on the different elements of benefits.
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of the financial aspects of benefits, such as pension liabilities, medical plan costing and 401K plans.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct and evaluate research to develop market insights to recommend opportunities for and adjustments to the competitive positions of the company’s benefit offerings.
  • Identify, evaluate and prioritize emerging trends that may provide opportunities to drive new benefit offerings for the organization.
  • Communicate potential benefits project opportunities to leadership for further review and development.
  • Aggregate and review project plans to ensure collaboration, management and coordination, aiding leadership in prioritizing deliverables and reviewing for alignment against department and division strategies.
  • Work with plan administrators to ensure benefits are administered correctly and are well communicated to employees.
  • Measure and analyze financial effectiveness of plans and programs, develop funding and expense projections.
  • Monitor plan performance and adherence to plan provisions and applicable laws. Ensure plan documents are updated.
  • Manage relationships with service providers who provide outsourced health insurance, time off and retirement plan administration.
  • Provide oversight and direction for vendor tracking and roll up reporting including budgeting oversight.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Workday Experience: Proficiency in using Workday for benefits administration.
  • Administering Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Experience: In-depth knowledge of non-qualified deferred compensation plans.
  • Proven experience in leading and managing Benefits projects from inception to completion.
  • Experience in planning and executing the yearly Annual Enrollment Benefit processes.

Benefits

    No information provided on Benefits.