Benefits Analyst II

B. Braun Medical Inc., a leader in infusion therapy and pain management, develops, manufactures, and markets innovative medical products and services to the healthcare industry. Other key product areas include nutrition, pharmacy admixture and compounding, ostomy and wound care, and dialysis. The company is committed to eliminating preventable treatment errors and enhancing patient, clinician and environmental safety. B. Braun Medical is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pa., and is part of the B. Braun Group of Companies in the U.S., which includes B. Braun Interventional Systems, Aesculap and CAPS.

Globally, the B. Braun Group of Companies employs more than 64,000 employees in 64 countries. Guided by its Sharing Expertise philosophy, B. Braun continuously exchanges knowledge with customers, partners and clinicians to address the critical issues of improving care and lowering costs. To learn more about B. Braun Medical, visit www.bbraunusa.com

Position Summary:

Come join B. Braun's U.S. corporate Benefits team! This Benefits Specialist will play a key role in leading the day-to-day administration of employee benefit programs, with a focus on U.S. benefits, supporting our employees and vendor management. The role reports into our Bethlehem, PA office, offering a hybrid work environment with in-office work 3 days/week. This role will be responsible for implementing and managing employee benefit programs and support leave of absence programs, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations while optimizing cost-effectiveness and employee satisfaction.

Responsibilities: Essential Duties

• Serve as the primary day-to-day administration of employee benefit programs, including for health & benefits, leave of absence, and wellbeing programs.
• Manages the Benefits Inbox and Benefits line and responds to all questions from employees.
• Ensure benefits programs comply with applicable plan document and regulations, performing analytics on usage, cost and effectiveness of benefits, as well as identifying improvement opportunities associated with the administration and design of the Program.
• Overall management of the benefit enrollment system: manages the vendor, ensures data integrity, troubleshoots issues, and produces monthly reports.
• Responsible for ACA tracking and reporting; researches data discrepancies; manages vendor; ensure program compliance.
• Reviews and approves all dependent verification for benefit plans.
• Maintain compliance with federal, state, and provincial regulations, including COBRA, FMLA, ERISA, and HIPAA.
• Manage plan vendors with ongoing meetings, communication, process improvements, SLAs.
• Oversees spending account plans (FSA, LPFSA, DCFSA and HSA).
• Creates and designs all benefit related communications; maintains the benefit website and ensure content is updated monthly. - Reviews, prepares and processes all benefit related invoices; tracks monthly payments.
• Oversees additional benefit plans including EAP, Best Doctors, Teladoc and Tobacco Cessation, Auto and Home, critical illness, Hospital Indemnity and Legal.
• Support the US LOA Program, ensuring compliance with state leave and federal laws affecting group benefit management administration.
• Assist with open enrollment activities to include employee communications and materials, virtual and in-person employee sessions, and implementation/testing of new plans in the enrollment system for accuracy.
• Ad hoc benefit or other HR related projects

The job function listed is not exhaustive and shall also include any responsibilities as assigned by the Supervisor from time to time.

General: It shall be the duty of every employee while at work to take reasonable care for safety and health of himself/herself and other persons.

Expertise: Knowledge & Skills

• Requires full working knowledge of relevant business practices and procedures in professional field. Uses standard theories, principles and concepts and integrates them to propose a course of action.
• Works under general supervision. Relies on experience and judgement to plan and accomplish assigned goals. May periodically assist in orienting, training, and/or reviewing the work of other peers.
• Judgement is required in resolving all day-to-day problems.
• Contacts are primarily with department supervisors, leads, subordinates, and peers. Frequent contact with external contractors/vendors.

Expertise: Qualifications -Education/Experience/Training/Etc

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 04-06 years related experience required.
• Strong Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PPT etc.), and HRIS skills
• Applicable industry/professional certification preferred.
• Regular and predictable attendance
• Occasional business travel required

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Responsibilities: Other Duties:

The preceding functions have been provided as examples of the types of work performed by employees assigned to this position. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed in this description are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind the work assignments of different positions due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is expected to:

• Light work - Exerting up to 20 lbs of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

Lifting, Carrying, Pushing, Pulling and Reaching:

• Occasionally:Reaching upward and downward, Push/pull, Stand
• Frequently:Sit
• Constantly:N/A

Activities:

• Occasionally:Push/pull, Reaching upward and downward, Standing, Walking
• Frequently:Finger feeling, Hearing - ordinary, fine distinction, loud (hearing protection required), Sitting , Talking - ordinary, loud/quick
• Constantly:N/A

Environmental Conditions:

• Occasionally:N/A
• Frequently:N/A
• Constantly:N/A

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Noise Intensity:Moderate
• Occasionally:N/A
• Frequently:N/A
• Constantly:Office environment

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$74,000 to $84,000

The targeted range for this role takes into account a range of factors that are considered when making compensation and hiring decisions; included but not limited to: skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The range provided is a reasonable estimate.

B. Braun offers an excellent benefits package, which includes healthcare, a 401(k) plan, and tuition reimbursement. To learn more about B. Braun and our safety healthcare products or view a listing of our employment opportunities, please visit us on the internet at www.bbraunusa.com.

Through its "Sharing Expertise" initiative, B. Braun promotes best practices for continuous improvement of healthcare products and services.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate applications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic. Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal, click here.

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