Overview

Greater Purpose and Core Values: Athletico’s Greater Purpose is to empower people, inspire hope and transform lives. We accomplish this by providing exceptional, progressive, and cost-effective fitness, performance and rehabilitative services through personalized care that emphasizes education and prevention of future injury. This is accomplished through building on our Core Values of one team, understanding our business, recognition, people-focused, accountability, continuous innovation and trust and integrity, which are the foundation for our unique culture.

Position Summary: Responsible for the day-to-day administration of employee health and welfare benefits, leaves of absence, and retirement savings plan. Regularly works with insurance broker and plan carriers on benefit related matters. Provides special guidance and assistance to all locations on various employee benefit plans and leaves of absence and surveys industry market trends to determine company’s competitive position in employee benefits. 

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The below is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organization and the overall business objectives of the organization.

• Administers all employee benefits programs, including, but not limited to, Health and Welfare, 401k, and Leave of Absence
• Administers and tracks all employee leave programs (FMLA, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability), including parental leave, medical or disability leave, military leave, or unpaid leave
• Facilitates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) interactive process with employees and managers, inducing the development of alternate work arrangements
• Responds to questions from Leaves and Benefits email inboxes pertaining to LOA offerings, benefit plans, benefits enrollments, status changes, and other general inquiries to ensure quick, equitable, courteous resolution
• Assists with annual enrollment planning, set up and communication process as well as annual retirement plan audit
• Assists with employee benefits plans and works with insurance brokers and plan carriers on data requests
• Conducts monthly and quarterly benefits enrollment audits
• Supports the development of training materials for HR Managers/HR Business Partners and managers to better understand benefits and leave process.
• Works closely with legal counsel and HR Operations to ensure leave policies are updated and in compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations.
• Assures company compliance and provisions with Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) activities, supervising preparation of reports and application required by law to be filed with federal and state agencies, such as IRS, DOL, insurance commissioners, and other regulatory agencies
• Prepares data/reports for Health & Welfare and 401k non-discrimination testing, surveys, data transmissions, claims analysis, and special requests
• Researches and remains current on all market benefit trends to ensure Athletico remains competitive with benefit offerings

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, Finance, Law, or related field or equivalent experience required
• Work Experience:
  • Minimum 1 year progressive HR/administrative experience required; 2 years of experience preferred
  • Minimum 1 year of experience in a corporate benefits role developing and administering health and welfare, disability, and retirement benefits; 2 or more years of experience preferred
  • Experience with Businessolver (Benefitsolver), ADP Vantage, and MyLincoln preferred
• Certification/Licensure:
  • Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) preferred
• Knowledge and Technical Skills:
  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft 365
  • Excellent knowledge of federal and state benefits regulations and legislation (e.g., PPACA, ERISA, IRC, DOL, FMLA, ADAA, COBRA, HIPAA)
  • Excellent knowledge of technical aspects of benefits administration (e.g., discrimination testing and government reporting obligations)
  • Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills; ability to interact at all levels within and outside the organization
  • Strong analytical and quantitative abilities, including assessing utilization and cost impact
  • Excellent project management skills
  • Highly adaptable to changing business conditions and priorities

Language Skills:

• Ability to read, write and speak English proficiently

The physical demands and work environment describe here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.

Physical Demands: 

• Ability to fulfill office activities including, but not limited to, remain stationary for extended periods of time (i.e., while working at a desk), stoop/kneel/crouch, travel around the office, communicate with others (verbal and written), and use fine motor skills including fine hand manipulation and keyboarding.
• Ability to see at close range, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20-25 pounds

Work Environment:

• Consistent with a standard office environment, noise level is low with little to no extraordinary environmental factors.

Athletico provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.