Benefits & Compensation Specialist

Join us as a Benefits & Compensation Specialist at ARAG Legal Insurance
. If you have a keen eye for detail and a knack for managing benefits, leave, and compensation programs, we want to hear from you!

We are looking for a detail-oriented professional to manage benefits and leave administration, collaborate with brokers, carriers, and vendors, lead the enrollment process, and serve as the main point of contact for team members on all benefit and leave related questions.

• Administers all ARAG benefit programs, including health and welfare plans, worker’s compensation, and STD/LTD. Inputs all benefit changes, including new hire, termination, status changes, address changes, etc. in the HRIS system to ensure accurate record keeping and proper deductions.
• Collaborates with brokers and carriers to ensure accurate plan administration, carrier portals, and HRIS connections while addressing changes, issues, and updates promptly.
• Provides timely and accurate responses to inquiries from new and existing team members and facilitates communication and education regarding available benefits.
• Monitors qualifying events and processes necessary system changes in adherence to benefit compliance and plan design.
• Proactively monitors the company intranet and other team member communications to ensure all benefit communication and documents are accurate and up to date.
• Creates campaigns to educate team members on the benefit package to drive engagement and utilization.
• Leads the Open Enrollment process for the organization, partners with the broker, and coordinates benefit meeting logistics. Ensures HRIS is updated appropriately, processes all benefit elections, and submits to carriers.
• Partners with the COBRA vendor to ensure COBRA requirements are met for terminated team members.
• Monitors benefit industry trends and participates in relevant data collection surveys. Provides recommendations to Culture & People leadership on new benefits or benefit changes.
• Monitors broker and vendor partnerships to ensure high-quality service, expertise, and current benefit plan trends, and actively works on our behalf.
• Proactively provides input to Culture & People leadership on benefit questions, issues, revisions, updates, and administration.
• Collects and tracks College Savings forms, Health Club & Fitness Equipment Reimbursement, Wellness Activity Reimbursement, Tuition Reimbursement, and ARAG Cares offerings.
• Serves as the Culture & People representative on the corporate Wellness Committee.

• Partners with Leave Management vendor to administer the leave process for the organization, including ADA, FMLA, Short-Term Disability, Parental Leave, caregiver leave, etc., providing updates to Senior Manager, Culture & People.
• Communicates leave policies, procedures and entitlements to team members and leaders.
• Educates leaders on ADA, FMLA, STD/LTD processes and provides formal training as needed.
• Monitors return-to-work statuses and coordinates with appropriate parties on accommodations or modifications as needed.
• Supports and facilitates the ADA interactive process, evaluating requests for reasonable accommodations and collaborating with team members and leaders to implement solutions in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
• Updates HRIS records to accurately reflect leave status and proactively communicates updates with the payroll team.
• Reports leave trends and metrics to Culture & People leadership for workforce planning purposes.

• Collaborates with external compensation consultants and the Senior Manager, Culture & People to establish market pricing for new and revised job descriptions.
• Maintains compensation data and ensures alignment with internal equity and market benchmarks.
• Participates in compensation surveys.
• Supports the annual merit increase process, including data preparation, analysis, and communication.
• Partners with Culture & People leadership to draft and edit variable compensation plan documents and administers variable compensation programs.

• Responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the HRIS system, working with vendors when…