Health and Benefits Associate

Health and Benefits Associate at Willis Towers Watson summary :

As a Health and Benefits Associate, you support the design, financing, and management of comprehensive health and benefit programs including medical, dental, life, and disability plans. You collaborate with project managers, vendors, and clients to ensure quality deliverables, manage enrollment support, and contribute to benefit plan analysis and cost-saving strategies. This role enhances health and benefits expertise while developing financial, project management, and client relationship skills in a professional services environment.

Job Description

As a Health and Benefits Associate you will contribute to a wide variety of projects involving the design, financing and ongoing management of the full spectrum of health and benefit programs. You will support the project manager on select projects, interface with vendors and key clients internally and externally, create client deliverables, and ensure quality standards are met. You will have the opportunity to significantly grow your health and benefits business acumen as well as your financial, project management and client relationship skills by working on cutting edge projects alongside leaders in the industry.

Responsibilities :

Materially contribute to core health and benefits projects supporting the design and management of group medical, dental, wellbeing, life, disability and absence management benefits for clients. Responsibilities include :

• Partnering with client service team leader to deliver superior project management
• Providing superior client service in response to day-to-day service issues and questions (eligibility, carrier coverage and claims issues, compliance, etc.)
• Preparation for client meetings (prepare agendas and materials, coordinate resources, etc.)
• Supporting vendor procurement, implementation, and optimization activities
• Providing benefit enrollment support, including preparing materials and presentations, verifying policy and plan information, and updating internal systems as necessary
• Contributing to completion of reports and administrative actions for clients including Form 5500 filings, policy checking and delivery, monthly reporting of client and carrier information, summary plan descriptions and certificates
• Supporting client service team leader in benefit plan analysis, design, cost savings and funding strategies
• Conducting review of client deliverables to ensure alignment to client objectives, leverage of optimal WTW services and solutions, and adherence to WTW professional excellence standards
• Facilitating benchmarking studies and other research; providing value added analyses and summaries
• Analyzing and comparing vendor products, services and contracts

Building relationships internally and collaborating effectively on cross-functional teams

Qualifications

Requirements

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary range and benefits information for this position are being included in accordance with requirements of various state / local pay transparency legislation. Please note that base salaries may vary for different individuals in the same role based on several factors, including but not limited to location of the role, individual competencies, education / professional certifications, qualifications / experience, performance in the role and potential for revenue generation (Producer roles only).

Compensation

The base salary compensation range being offered for this role is $80,000-$90,000 USD per year.

This role is also eligible for an annual short-term incentive bonus.

Company Benefits

WTW provides a competitive benefit package which includes the following (eligibility requirements apply) :

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Note that visa employment-based non-immigrant visa sponsorship and / or assistance is not offered for this specific job opportunity.

This position will remain posted for a minimum of three business days from the date posted or until sufficient / appropriate candidate slate has been identified.

EOE, including disability / vets

Keywords :

health benefits, benefit administration, client service, project management, vendor management, group medical insurance, enrollment support, compliance, cost savings, benefit plan design