What are the responsibilities and job description for the Employee Benefits Account Manager position at AWS Insurance?
Company Information
Organization Name: Aparicio, Walker & Seeling, Inc.
About Our Organization: AWS Insurance, serving the Gulf Coast region, provides services in all aspects of insurance including commercial business insurance, risk management, car insurance, home or property insurance, flood insurance, natural disaster, marine insurance, liability insurance, employee health benefits, and payroll services. We offer our employees excellent health benefits to attract and retain high-quality employees.
Website: https://awsinsurance.com
Position Title: Employee Benefits Account Manager
About Our Organization: AWS Insurance, serving the Gulf Coast region, provides services in all aspects of insurance including commercial business insurance, risk management, car insurance, home or property insurance, flood insurance, natural disaster, marine insurance, liability insurance, employee health benefits, and payroll services. We offer our employees excellent health benefits to attract and retain high-quality employees.
Website: https://awsinsurance.com
Position Title: Employee Benefits Account Manager
Hiring Manager Job Title: Vice President
Employment Status: Full-Time Regular
Primary Location: Metairie, LA
Primary Location: Metairie, LA
Job Summary
The Employee Benefits Account Manager will provide professional, courteous service to our clients, producers, and internal staff. Manage employee benefits administration, assisting current and new clients with benefits questions, claims, and billing issues to a successful resolution.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- None
Job Duties
- Stays current on regulations, Health Care Reform, and general insurance knowledge
- Demonstrated working knowledge of health and welfare plans, including medical, dental, vision, STD, and LTD insurance with ability to explain benefit plan design and employee benefit laws
- Responsible for acting as a liaison between clients and insurance carriers or other vendors
- Maintains strong vendor relationships, while developing vendor negotiation skills
- Perform clients contact via phone and email to develop and maintain rapport, anticipate clients’ needs, and modify clients’ insurance program as needed promptly and professionally
- Provide clerical and technical support to producers to benefit clients
- Assist producer in adding coverages to existing accounts.
- Markets new and renewal business to appropriate carriers as needed or requested including preparing complete marketing submissions while verifying their accuracy.
- Prepare summaries of insurance and proposals as needed for account review.
- Refers current and prospective clients to other departments for solicitation of those lines of business.
- Understands and interprets compliance and state and federal legislative issues, ERISA, FMLA, ADA, COBRA, ACA (all that apply)
Qualifications/Education
- Bachelor’s degree highly preferred
- 5-10 years’ experience in the Employee Benefits Insurance Industry preferred
- Life, Accident and Health Insurance License
- Experience working with computers in Windows environment.
- Strong Experience with all Microsoft Office Software program
- Ability to complete projects that require a high attention to detail
- Ability to work independently.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Strong excel and presentation skills preferred
Note
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.
The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, drug free workplace, and complies with ADA regulations as applicable.
Flexible work from home options available.
Salary : $50,000 - $65,000
