Manager Benefits

Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions - from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers.

The Manager Benefits supports the benefits strategy and administration of the company's employee benefit program including the design, implementation, and maintenance of the program. The Benefits Manager works with benefit consultants and vendors to stay appraised of company's competitive position in employee benefits and to ensure company compliance with federal and state laws. This position plays a key role in supporting the Company's annual benefits review, and provides recommendations to the Benefits Director, Chief People Officer and Executive team to ensure competitiveness while being financially prudent. The Benefits Manager leads all communications and implementation of wellness and health education initiatives.

• Works closely with the Benefits Director in reviewing all health and welfare program offerings by gathering benchmarking data, preparing analysis, and contributing recommendations to help ensure the programs remain competitive and aligned with organizational goals.

• Supports the annual benefits renewal process by gathering data, coordinating with vendors, and preparing materials to inform leadership on trends or issues that may impact financial planning or decision-making.

• Deploys communication strategies to ensure all benefits programs are fully understood and valued by employees, including benefit bulletins and other benefit materials and resources. Manages the benefits materials available to employees on Connect.

• Serves as the primary point of contact for benefit vendors and insurance carriers and acts as an employee advocate in troubleshooting escalated benefit issues and resolving disputes with insurance carriers.

• Manages the Annual Open Enrollment process including the review and renewal, coordinating with the HRIS team, setting the open enrollment calendar, employee communications, participation in the preparation of benefit educational materials and presentations.

• Manages the company wellness program, including budget projections, promotion, and administrative activities.

• Oversees the administration of the 401k plan, including preparation of Summary Plan Description for participants, beneficiaries, and the 401k Committee.

• Works with the 401k administrator, financial planners, and auditors to ensure audit compliance with 401k plan and annual 5500 filings. Conducts related analysis to support audit requirements.

• Ensures compliance with all federal and state agencies. Prepares and implement in concert with outside benefit consultant the annual benefits compliance calendar. Monitor regulations and reporting requirements as they relate to Surescripts' policies, plans, and programs. Ensures the timely completion of regulatory reports and filings including 5500s and plan audits.

• Establish and monitor employee benefit expenses against the budget.

• Oversees the leave administrative process and works closely with the outsourced administrative leave vendor. Partners with the HRBP function concerning all aspects of leave management and ADA/ADAAA request.

• Serves as in-house expert regarding the following federal and state laws: FMLA, ADA, ADAA, Workers Compensation and COBRA and maintains a general understanding of ERISA.

• Oversees the tracking, monitoring, and reporting of all benefit related metrics.

• Represents the Company in all Unemployment hearings.

• Streamlines the administrative processes for all benefit administration and ensures the documentation of these procedures.

• Oversees the reconciliation, approval, and processing of monthly benefit invoices.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• 8+ years of related, progressive experience

• 3+ years of people management experience or experience in roles showing progressive leadership

• Intermediate level of experience with Microsoft Excel and Word

• Prior experience working with federal benefit laws including FMLA, ADA, ADAAA, and COBRA

• Prior experience with HR analytics

Surescripts embraces flexibility through its Flexible Hybrid Work model for most positions. This model allows employees to work virtually while still utilizing our offices as collaboration centers. With alignment and agreement from your leadership, you can come and go from the office as needed.

To be considered for employment, applicants must have a valid U.S. work authorization allowing work without restrictions with Surecripts in the U.S. At this time, we are unable to provide support or provide sponsorship for immigration benefits such as work visas. Additionally, we do not participate in academic training programs or work-study programs through an academic institution that require employer endorsement of F-1/CPT or F-1/STEM.

You're more than an HR pro. You're a fair and compassionate advocate who encourages diversity of thought and growth. You seek to deeply understand the business, its people and its needs, and find ways to support and meaningfully match the right talent to the right purpose. Ultimately, you help shape the culture-and future-of our company.

Surescripts Human Resources is a collaborative, hard-working crew that openly shares and learns from each other. We laugh a lot, we celebrate when we make awesome hires, and we help our teammates struggling with thorny HR issues. No matter what we're working on ... we're all in it together.

Our challenge (as is the challenge in HR departments the world over) is to balance the best interests of employees, managers and our bottom line. This is not always an easy task, but we are continuously striving to do our best to cultivate an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, energized by their work, and committed to achieving exceptional results together.

Why Wait? Apply Now

We're a midsize company. This means you're not just another employee ID number. Here, you can build real relationships and feel supported by truly awesome people with diverse backgrounds and talents in an innovative and collaborative work culture. We strive to create an environment where you can be yourself, share your ideas and work your way. We offer opportunities for employee development, as well as competitive compensation packages and extensive benefits.

Benefits include, but are not limited to, comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage), generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days, pet insurance, and 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. To learn more, review the Keep You and Yours Healthy, Balancing Work and Life, and Where Talent Takes Shape links under the Better Benefits. Better Work. Better Life section of our careers site.

Physical and Mental Requirements

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel, communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Surescripts is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.