Benefits Manager

Position Overview

Alliance Animal Health is seeking an experienced Benefits Manager to support the administration, compliance, and optimization of our employee benefits, leave of absence programs, and insurance claims oversight across a growing, multi-state organization. If you're passionate about supporting meaningful benefits programs that help the people caring for pets every day, we’d love to talk with you.

This role plays an important part in ensuring our benefits programs remain competitive and compliant. The ideal candidate brings strong regulatory knowledge, analytical skills, vendor management experience, and a continuous improvement mindset.

Key Responsibilities

This role is responsible for administering and supporting the organization’s employee benefits programs, including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, voluntary benefits, and the 401(k) retirement plan. The position partners with leadership and benefits brokers to review plan performance, analyze claims and utilization trends, support renewals, and ensure programs remain competitive, cost-effective, and compliant with applicable regulations.

The Benefits Manager also oversees leave of absence programs, including FMLA, disability, ADA accommodations, and multi-state leave laws, while serving as a resource for complex leave matters. This role ensures compliance with federal and state regulations such as ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and Section 125, supports required reporting and audits, and maintains accurate plan documentation.

In addition, the position coordinates closely with benefits vendors, brokers, and third-party administrators to support renewals, resolve service issues, and ensure effective program delivery. The role assists with annual open enrollment planning and communications, provides guidance to teammates and HR partners on benefits-related questions, and helps create clear benefits education materials.

This role also supports ongoing process improvements, HRIS reporting, and system optimization to enhance efficiency and scalability as the organization continues to grow.

 

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in benefits administration and leave management
• Experience supporting benefits programs across multiple states
• Knowledge of ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and related regulations
• Experience working with benefits brokers, carriers, and third-party administrators
• Strong analytical skills with experience reviewing claims or cost data
• Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills
• Experience with HRIS systems (ADP Workforce Now preferred)
• FMLA and ADA experience. 

Preferred

• CEBS, SHRM-CP/SCP, PHR/SPHR, or similar certification
• Experience in high-growth or multi-site organizations
• Experience supporting geographically distributed teams

 

What We’re Looking For

• Strong attention to detail and compliance focus
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Effective communicator who can explain complex benefits concepts
• Ability to manage vendor relationships and cross-functional partnerships
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving organization

Additional information

Competitive compensation dependent on location and experience, with annual bonus potential. We also offer a robust set of medical, non-medical and retirement benefits that we encourage our employees to take advantage of. 

We want nothing more than to fuel your career goals, which is why we’ve created exclusive programs like Alliance Educates, Alliance Propel and Alliance Cares - to bring you financial, learning and wellness opportunities designed to enrich your growth. 

 

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