Senior Benefits Consultant
Hartford, CT - USA
Job Summary
Employee Benefits is the core of our business and at our heart we are a people-focused organization. Every day we help over 100000 employers give their employees peace of mind by providing health pharmacy long and short-term disability vision dental and other insurance solutions. What makes us unique is that we can surround our clients with more services and more technology-based tools and a team of advisors that simply cares more than anyone else.
If you want a career giving people the reassurance that they can have access to the health care they need for themselves and their loved ones join OneDigital.
Our Newest Opportunity:
The Senior Benefits Consultant is primarily responsible for retaining clients and their existing book of business. The consultant will oversee strategy financial analysis benefit design plan renewals bench marking and overall service delivery. They will also effectively communicate OneDigitals value proposition and latest industry trends to active clients.
Responsibilities:
- Develops sophisticated benefit design and renewal strategies and drives the development of solutions to address complex client issues
- Works closely with account management and/or client service teams on pre-renewal strategy RFP distribution SPRs open enrollment strategy and post renewal analysis
- Determines the full scope of services to be provided to client
- Clearly establishes and communicates timelines with the client service team(s) and keeps them apprised of changes and renewal updates
- Maintains accountability for revenue and profitability for client accounts and projects and keeps all involved parties up to date
- Monitors the success of projects in terms of scope budget timeliness and client satisfaction
- Oversees the on-boarding of new clients by working collaboratively with client service team(s) to establish the implementation plan team and timeline
- Ensures client service team(s) exceeds client expectations
- Grows book through cross-selling opportunities
- Cultivates and maintains strong relationships with clients and carriers
- Establishes effective carrier/vendor relationships to serve clients in benefits procurement and administration
- Attends carrier events to remain up to date and knowledgeable of carrier plans and changes as well as maintain strong relationships
- Maintains a full understanding of the insurance markets funding alternatives networks and benefit plan options
- Ensures accuracy of client data in CRM
- Remains fully knowledgeable on compliance issues governed by legislation and regulations impacting employer sponsored health and welfare plans such as HIPAA ERISA Tax Code SEC 125 PPACA and state sponsored health insurance exchanges
Requirements:
- Ability to influence and effectively interact with members of the C-suite
- Strong attention to detail
- Must be self-motivated and disciplined
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to manage ones workload
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment
Experience:
- 7 years of benefits consulting experience required
- Bachelors Degree preferred
- Must be up to date and knowledgeable on Health Care Reform and health and ancillary insurance products
- Must have a practical knowledge of quoting process and tools
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel and familiar with database applications
- Valid life and health insurance license required
The typical base pay range for this role nationwide is $165000 to $180000 per year.
Your base pay is dependent upon your skills education qualifications professional experience and addition to base pay some roles are eligible for variable compensation commission and/or annual bonus based on your individual performance and/or the companys performance. We also offer eligible employees health wellbeing retirement and other financial benefits paid time off overtime pay for non-exempt employees and robust learning and development programs. You will receive reimbursement of job-related expenses per the company policy and may receive employee perks and discounts.
To learn more visit: is an equal opportunity employer. Not only as a matter of standard but to honor and celebrate our differences. We believe that the power of ONE starts with you. We are committed to cultivating and preserving a culture that celebrates diversity insists on equity and inclusion and connects us. Ensuring our people feel seen valued respected and supported is fundamental to our core values and business goals.
OneDigital provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of their: veteran status uniformed servicemember status race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age (40 and over) pregnancy (including childbirth lactation and related medical conditions) national origin or ancestry citizenship or immigration status physical or mental disability genetic information (including testing and characteristics) or any other category protected by federal state or local law (collectively protected characteristics). A copy of the Federal EEO poster is linked here.
Pursuant to local Fair Chance Ordinances we will consider qualified applications with arrest or conviction records for employment. For applicable candidates the following ordinances are linked here to inform you of your rights as an applicant:
City and County of San Francsico
Employment decisions shall comply with all other applicable federal state and city/county laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. OneDigital complies with all criminal history inquiry or ban the box laws in California Connecticut Colorado Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota New Jersey New Mexico Oregon Rhode Island Vermont and Washington.
In short we believe in hiring the most qualified applicant for the position regardless of background.
If you have questions about our hiring policies and practices we would be happy to discuss upon receiving your application. We hope to welcome you to OneDigital and look forward to hearing from you.
OneDigital understands the immense responsibility and opportunities provided by Artificial Intelligence. We utilize advanced Artificial Intelligence AI technologies to enhance our recruitment process. This includes using AI to filter candidates based on their qualifications and to rediscover potential candidates from our existing applicant pool. Our AI systems help us efficiently identify the best fit for our open positions ensuring a streamlined and effective hiring experience. However AI does not replace the humans in our process. If you have concerns about our use of AI you may opt out where laws allow.
Thank you for your interest in joining the OneDigital team!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Insurance, employee benefits, HR and financial services for businesses and individuals to manage risk, control costs, and plan for long-term success.