Senior Employee Benefits Client Consultant

Cottingham & Butler; Dubuque (IA); Sur place; USD 85 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO/Paid Holidays

Disability insurance (STD/LTD)

Maternity/Parental Leave

Parking

Résumé du poste

Cottingham & Butler in Dubuque, IA seeks an experienced Senior Employee Benefits Client Consultant to drive successful client outcomes. You will build trusted relationships, provide high-quality analysis, and deliver strategic recommendations across diverse industries and geographies.

The role emphasizes serving as a trusted advisor, leveraging internal tools, and collaborating with sales to innovate benefit programs.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience.
• Life and Health Insurance License required.
• Expertise in developing self-insured and fully insured welfare benefit plans.
• CE credits and additional designations as assigned.

Responsabilités

• Build Client Relationships as the primary advisor for benefits-related issues and develop tailored benefit strategies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address client analytics, compliance, communications, technology, and marketing needs.
• Develop and analyze benefit plan offerings using client data, benchmarking, and alternative funding strategies.

Connaissances

Client relationships

Analytical thinking

Benefit administration systems

Strategic advisory

Financial reporting

Formation

Life and Health Insurance License

Continuing education credits

Description du poste

Senior Employee Benefits Client Consultant

Dubuque, Iowa, United States

We are seeking an experienced and passionate employee benefits professional to drive successful outcomes for clients and their programs. As an Employee Benefits Client Consultant, you'll play a critical role in building strong client relationships, providing high-quality analysis, and delivering strategic recommendations that ensure positive outcomes for our clients. With your expertise, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to clients across various industries, sizes, and geographies.

Essential Functions:

• Build Client Relationships: Establish yourself as the primary advisor for benefits-related issues. Assist clients by developing and executing tailored benefit program strategies to retain and attract employees. Support HR leaders in navigating legal compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, FMLA, COBRA) and other functions.
• Team Collaboration: Work within a cross-functional team to address client needs in analytics, compliance, communications, technology, marketing, and non-medical benefits. Leverage internal tools effectively to oversee client materials and prepare for questions with support from internal teams.
• Develop Benefit Plan Offerings: Analyze client data for utilization patterns, benchmarking, and alternative funding strategies. Collaborate with the sales team to recommend products to enhance benefit programs or solve client needs.

Knowledge and Expertise:

• Familiarity with coverages, carriers, payroll, and benefit administration systems.
• Proficiency in benefit procedures, strategies, and market knowledge.
• Strong business insight including financial reporting, client business models, and strategy.
• A commitment to personal excellence and a thriving company culture.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience.
• Maintain a Life and Health Insurance License.
• Expertise in developing self-insured and fully insured welfare benefit plans.
• Fulfillment of continuing education credits and additional designations as assigned.

Full-Time Benefits - Most benefits start day 1

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Flex Spending or HSA
• 401(k) with company match
• Profit-Sharing/Defined Contribution (1-year waiting period)
• PTO/Paid Holidays
• Company-paid ST and LT Disability
• Maternity Leave/Parental Leave
• Subsidized Parking
• Company-paid Term Life/Accidental Death Insurance

Company Description

At Cottingham & Butler, we sell a promise to help our clients through life's toughest moments. To deliver on that promise, we aim to hire, train, and grow the best professionals in the industry. We look for people with an insatiable desire to succeed, are committed to growing, and thrive on challenges. Our culture is guided by the theme of "better every day" constantly pushing ourselves to be better than yesterday - that's who we are and what we believe in.

As an organization, we are tremendously optimistic about the future and have incredibly high expectations for our people and our performance. Our ability to grow as a company, fuels investments in new resources to better serve our clients and provide the amazing career opportunities our employees want and deserve. This is why we are a growth company and why we are committed to being better every day.

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