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Benefits Specialist

Remote: 
Full Remote
Contract: 
Salary: 
36 - 36K yearly
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

High School Degree or GED required, Minimum of two years customer service experience, Basic knowledge of MS Word and Excel, Preferred benefits experience.

Key responsabilities:

  • Professionally answer incoming calls
  • Provides guidance on benefit options
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Health Advocate Health, Sport, Wellness & Fitness Large https://www.healthadvocate.com/
1001 - 5000 Employees
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Job description

Why is Health Advocate a great place to work? For starters, Health Advocate employees enjoy helping people every single day. Employees are given the training they need to do their jobs well, and they work with supervisors and staff who are supportive and friendly. Employees have room to grow, and many of Health Advocate's supervisors are promoted from within the company.  Join our award winning team!

2024:

  • Excellence in Customer Service Awards: Organization of the Year (Small)

  • Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service: Customer Service Department of the Year – Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Related Industries, Bronze Winner

As part of Teleperformance in the US, we were also named #95 in the 2024 ‘Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®’ in the USA by Great Places to Work (GPTW®)

Locations

Must be located in the Continental United States

Summary of Role

Our Benefits Specialists play an important role in providing guidance, direction, and supporting our valued members to navigate their benefit plans. If you are someone who thrives in making a difference by helping others, have health benefit service experience, and are committed to making a contribution while growing your career in the health industry this is the job for you.  We have training classes starting soon to help you build the successful career that you want - apply today!

Your Success

As a work from home associate, you’ll deliver a positive experience that solves members’ needs/challenges, while working to resolve issues.

Health Advocate offers all work equipment and a comprehensive new-employee training program to help you develop the knowledge and skills that will set you up for success in your role and in supporting our members.

Invested in you

At Health Advocate, you’ll have the ability to pursue your ambitions and grow your career. We’ve got you covered with a total rewards package that includes Robust Medical coverage, as well as Dental & Vision benefits, tuition assistance, 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, Employee Assistance Programs and Wellness Programs.

Pay Rate

Hourly rate starting at $19.00.

Hours/Shift

This position is full-time (40 hours/week) Monday - Friday. Employees have flexibility to work any of our 8.5 hour shift schedules during our normal business hours of (8:00 am -10:00 pm EST). It may be necessary, given the business need, to work occasional overtime.

Job Summary

  • Professionally answer incoming calls and respond to client inquiries
  • Connect with customers by phone and quickly develop a rapport to help the individual to navigate their benefit choices and options
  • Provides guidance to members on open enrollment issues and benefit options. This includes compare and contrast benefits during Open Enrollment and Special Enrollment periods

Minimum Requirements

  • High School Degree or GED required
  • Associate’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in business administration, liberal arts, public health, healthcare management, or a related field is preferred
  • Time spent in pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree (e.g. Junior and Senior year) may be substituted in lieu of experience requirement. Minimum of two years customer service, healthcare, or benefits experience required
  • Basic Knowledge of MS Word and Excel required
  • Previous benefits experience preferred

Company Overview

Health Advocate is the nation’s leading provider of health advocacy, navigation, well-being and integrated benefits programs. For 20 years, Health Advocate has provided expert support to help our members navigate the complexities of healthcare and achieve the best possible health and well-being. Our solutions leverage a unique combination of best-in-class, personalized support with powerful predictive data analytics and a proprietary technology platform to address nearly every clinical, administrative, wellness or behavioral health need. Whether facing common issues or an unprecedented challenge like COVID-19, our team of highly trained, compassionate experts work together to go above and beyond expectations, making healthcare easier for our members and ensuring they get the care they need.

Learn more

Health Advocate https://www.healthadvocate.com/site/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/healthadvocateinc/

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Awards:

2023:

  • National Customer Service Association All-Stars Award: Service Organization of the Year.
  • Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service: Customer Service Department of the Year – Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Related Industries, Bronze Winner

2022:

  • Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service: Customer Service Department of the Year – Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Related Industries, Bronze Winner
  • Excellence in Customer Service Awards: Organization of the Year (Small)
  • Best in Biz Awards: Most Customer-Friendly Company of the Year – Medium and large category (Silver)

2021:

  • Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service: Customer Service Department of the Year – Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Related Industries, Silver Winner
  • Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service: Most Valuable Response by a Customer Service Team (COVID-19). Bronze Winner
  • Best in Biz Awards: Most Customer-Friendly Company of the Year – Medium and large category (Silver)

2020:

  • National Customer Service Association All-Stars Award: Organizations of 100 or Greater, Runner-Up
  • Communicator Award of Distinction: October 2019 Broker News
  • MarCom Awards: Gold, COVID Staycation Ideas brochure
  • MarCom Awards: Platinum, 2021 Well-being Calendar
  • Best in Biz Awards: Most Customer-Friendly Company of the Year - Medium category (Silver)

Health Advocate is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, or any other factor not related to job requirements. We respect and value diversity, and are committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity.

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PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION


The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-I.35(c)

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Industry :
Health, Sport, Wellness & Fitness
Spoken language(s):
English
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