What are the responsibilities and job description for the Account Manager II position at Careers?
Who We Are
NFP, an Aon Company, is a multi-year Best Places to Work award winner in Business Insurance who has also earned the 5-Star Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) award from Insurance Business magazine and the WORK180 employer endorsement. We are an organization of consultative advisors and problem solvers. We help companies and individuals around the globe address their most significant risk, workforce, wealth management and retirement challenges through custom solutions and a people-first approach. To learn more, please visit: https://www.NFP.com.
Summary: The Account Manager II is responsible for working with Advisors and Account Executives to service client accounts. The position requires day to day client servicing for a specific set of clients and entails a great deal of verbal, electronic and other written communications. The Account Manager II will manage the renewal process and prepare materials for presentations and communications, in collaboration with their more senior team members. At this level, an Account Manager will lead open enrollment presentations and may take an active role in client meetings. Work is completed with a significant amount of independent discretion. While in this role, this person should be developing relationships with clients and carrier contacts and working proactively to effectively and efficiently deliver services to clients.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Works proactively to develop relationships with carrier and client contacts; may take active role in meetings.
- Communicates directly with clients and carriers with collaboration with senior team members.
- Responsible for drafting client meeting deliverables
- Takes the lead on reviewing contracts, benefit plan summaries, and carrier source documents for accuracy in collaboration with the Account Executive or Advisor.
- May serve as a mentor to more junior team members; assists with training more junior team members.
- Develops and maintains ongoing relationships with clients. Takes more of an active role in client meetings and calls.
- May have direct contact with clients and relies on a growing knowledge of the details of various insurance coverages.
- Continues relationships with carrier representatives to better understand available products and services in the marketplace and recommend them to clients.
- Work with advisors or more senior team members to identify the strategies to meet client needs.
- Review & analyze request for proposals and insurance plan designs, negotiate with carriers and recommend renewal actions in drafts of presentations to be reviewed by Account Executives
- Responsible for marketing and vetting client COBRA & FSA vendors
- Upkeep and management of NFP Connect, may delegate as necessary to Specialist, Benefit Technologies
- Update employee communications, ensure client resources and communications are up to date following open enrollment or coverage change.
- Prepare document and data for annual client compliance audits to be presented by Account Executive
- Become generally knowledgeable of compliance requirements as it relates to health & welfare plans.
- Attend to client requests including product or vendor service or performance challenges.
- Ensure 5500 form is filed and completed in a timely manner.
- Assembles updates for clients regarding appropriate industry trends and events, including all state and federal regulatory issues in conjunction with Account Executives or Advisors
- Learns about alternative funding strategies.
- General client service support including claims & membership support and other general inquiries.
- Responsible for implementation of new business, plans, carriers, and vendors; open enrollment process, etc.
- Facilitate client needs for non-discrimination testing.
- May provide informal leadership to more junior team members, based on experience, without official supervisory responsibility.
- Performs other duties as assigned and consistently makes independent judgments subject to general supervisor support.
Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:
- Knowledge of benefits administration, HealthCare Reform, industry trends, carrier products and services
- Ability to work independently and anticipate client and team needs.
- Effective time management and decision-making skills.
- Diligent follow up skills.
- Ability to express ideas clearly in both written and oral communications.
- Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Commanding presentation and public speaking abilities
Education and/or Experience:
- Associate degree (or equivalent), and BA/BS preferred.
- More than 3 years’ client service and/or industry and product line experience
Certificates, Licenses, Registration:
- Life, Accident and Health Insurance License required.
What We Offer
We're proud to offer a competitive salary, PTO & paid holidays, 401(k) with match, exclusive discount programs, health & wellness programs, and more. Our PeopleFirst culture focuses on building and nurturing lifelong relationships with our employees because, at the end of the day, we exist to be there for others.
The base salary range for this position is $50,000 – $80,000. The base salary offered will be determined by factors including, but not limited to, experience, credentials, education, certifications, skill level required for the position, the scope of the position, and geographic location. Actual base salary offered will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.
NFP and You... Better together!
NFP is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
Salary : $50,000 - $80,000