Benefits Manager

Benefits Manager

Yesway is an award-winning convenience store operator established in 2015 and headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. With 446 stores across nine states in the Midwest and Southwest, Yesway is renowned for its iconic food service offerings, diverse grocery selections, and private-label products, including the renowned Allsup's deep-fried burrito. Through strategic acquisitions, new store developments, and a commitment to customer satisfaction, Yesway continues to solidify its position as one of the leading convenience retailers in the United States.

Position Responsibilities :

• Manages vendor relationships and negotiations for benefit programs to ensure the best value for the company and its employees.
• Works closely with vendors and brokers to research market trends to prepare strategy and recommend appropriate benefit plans, to foster a comprehensive benefits package.
• Oversees the annual open enrollment process, including employee communication and education, ensuring system updates are made in a timely fashion to ensure deductions and deduction codes transition properly.
• Ensures a communications plan in place to consistently disseminate information and educational materials to employees related to a variety of benefits and retirement topics.
• Monitors and reports out on benefit cost trends, utilizing IBNR and MER reports and recommends cost-saving opportunities while maintaining quality.
• Ensures compliance with ERISA and other regulatory requirements related to health and welfare and retirement plans.
• Oversees the administration of the retirement program.
• Responsible for Leave of Absence process, ensuring compliance with FMLA, ACA, ADA, etc.
• Oversees reconciliation of benefits invoicing.
• Responsible for leading the year-end compliance processes, ensuring items such as the annual 5500 filing and 401k discrimination testing, 1095-C's, PCORI filings, non-discrimination testing, etc. are completed accurately and in a timely fashion.
• Ensures regular audits are performed to ensure data housed in our HRIS system matches that contained in our various benefits systems, creating a plan of action to correct any errors to ensure corrections are made throughout the year to support ease of year end compliance.
• Ensures internal customers are appropriately assisted with benefit-related questions and claims issues, including leaves of absence and ADA questions.
• Oversees employee PTO benefits, and employee recognition programs to ensure they are administered appropriately and according to policy.
• Provides assistance with annual merit process.
• Recommends policies and procedures related to scope.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications :

Preferred Skills and Competencies :

Benefits

Yesway is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.