Benefits Consultant

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Employee Benefits Consultant FLSA CLASSIFICATION: Salaried Exempt

POSITION SUMMARY:
Our focus is business owners. Is yours?

Everything we do at BBSI is in support of business owners. We eliminate organizational complexity and bring predictability to the management of their business. We offer outsourced benefits, HR, risk management, payroll administration, and recruiting to small-and medium-sized businesses. We combine expert knowledge with industry-leading solutions allowing business owners to focus on their core business while building stronger companies.

We facilitate conversations around a broad range of organizational areas that allow business owners to run their companies more effectively, including leveraging their benefit offering to attract and retain top talent and to increase productivity. With 63 branches across the country, we offer our clients a high-touch, relationship-based experience. We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them and enable them to view their businesses-and their roles as owners-differently.

Every business owner is on a journey. BBSI is with them every step of the way.

BBSI (Nasdaq) is experiencing a steady rate of growth and is looking for key employees to complement our existing teams. The Employee Benefits Consultant role provides guidance and support to our business-owner clients and our internal team of experts and represents our master benefits program, BBSI Benefits. This person must demonstrate strong business acumen and possess an entrepreneurial spirit with a genuine desire to proactively and consistently deliver results for our clients and internal teams.

The BBSI Employee Benefits Consultant works with their branch, clients, and their broker (when applicable) to create a tailored benefits package that will meet the needs of our clients and their employees. The BBSI Employee Benefits Consultant works with a number of multi-million-dollar business units that consult on a broad range of organizational issues.

The ideal candidate will be able to balance the account management and service element of the role with the responsibility to bring on new BBSI Benefits Clients and their employees (worksite employees). Grow, Retain, Teach.

• Generate growth of the master benefits program (Health, Dental, Vision, Ancillary, etc.).
• Design and recommend client companies' benefits offerings based on client objectives, providing clients with strategic guidance and decision-making support.
• Educate client employees (worksite employees) on the value of their benefits and simplifying industry concepts during open enrollment meetings, maximizing employee engagement and plan participation.
• Support field driven new business development, identifying opportunities and client/RP fit.
• Perform as a subject matter expert in the area of employee benefits, providing strategic guidance, training, and support to:
  • Colleagues and peers - training and mentorship contributing to the professional growth of the team.
  • External clients and their employees (worksite employees).
  • Internal clients.
• Affect the client and worksite employee experience with BBSI and the Benefits Program throughout the client's lifecycle by professionally and effectively managing client relationships to include:
  • Benefits onboarding - implementation of benefit plans, ensuring compliance.
  • Collaborate to reach out to clients proactively throughout the year, and work together to provide prompt and thorough resolution of escalated matters.
  • Benefits renewal.
• Be an agent of change to mold a unified, highly regulated product to a decentralized service model.

This position is a full time, exempt position that reports to the Director of Client Benefits and works in partnership with other positions within the business units, branches, and corporate office.

• 8+ years hands-on employee benefits experience at a benefits brokerage or general agency;
  Account Management and/or Benefits Administration experience a plus. Prior PEO experience a plus.
• Thorough understanding of employee benefits principles and practices, including laws and regulations at the state and federal level, product and market-specific familiarity, industry…