Benefits Specialist

Position Summary

Catalent Pharma Solutions is hiring a Benefits Specialist for our Bridgewater, New Jersey location. The Benefits Specialist is responsible for the administration and ongoing oversight of employee benefits programs, including health, dental, vision, life insurance, and retirement plans. This role serves as a primary subject matter resource and escalation point for complex benefits inquiries, ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations (FMLA, COBRA, ACA), and facilitating the open enrollment process. Additionally, this role will provide benefits coordination for immigration and relocation activities.

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8am - 5pm

100% on-site in Bridgewater, New Jersey

Catalent, Inc. is a leading global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), and Our purpose-built San Diego location provides comprehensive clinical supply services including clinical supply management, primary and secondary packaging, complex labeling services, clinical storage, distribution, and clinical returns and destruction, and will also include stability chambers. Located less than a mile from Catalent’s West Coast early-phase oral drug product development center of excellence, customers choosing this convenient Catalent location can now enjoy a fully integrated development, clinical supply manufacturing and distribution solution.

The Role

• Benefits Administration: Administer and oversee employee benefits enrollments, terminations, and life status changes in Workday, ensuring accurate and compliant processing. Administer 401(k) enrollment and reconciliation in 3rd party vendor system and Workday.
• Employee Support: Serve as the escalation point for complex or non-routine employee inquiries, interpreting plan provisions and providing guidance on eligibility, claims, and coverage in a clear, timely, and professional manner. Independently resolve complex or sensitive issues, coordinating with internal teams and vendors as needed. Support benefit corrections and remediation activities, including retroactive enrollments and payroll-related benefit issues.
• Compliance & Reporting: Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local benefits and leave regulations, including ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, ACA, and FMLA and applicable state programs. Prepare and maintain documentation to support audits, annual filings, and regulatory inquiries.
• Leave Management: Administer and oversee leave of absence programs, serving as a resource for complex leave scenarios, including FMLA and parental leave, in partnership with vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Open Enrollment: Support annual open enrollment activities, including system set-up and testing, data validation, employee communications, and informational sessions. Vendor Management: Function as a liaison with insurance carriers and benefits vendors to resolve complex eligibility, billing, and service issues and ensure service delivery meets plan requirements. Coordinate eligibility, enrollment, and data file exchanges with vendors to support accurate plan administration and issue resolution.
• Immigration & Relocation Support: Assist with immigration- and relocation-related benefits coordination, working closely with internal mobility partners, legal counsel, and external vendors to support employee transitions.
• Benefits Communications & Site Management: Maintain and update benefits-related content on internal benefits sites and platforms to ensure information is accurate, current, and aligned with plan changes and compliance requirements. Draft and maintain employee-facing benefit communications, job aids, and FAQs.
• Process Improvement & Data Integrity: Identify process gaps or inefficiencies within benefits administration and support continuous improvement initiatives. Conduct regular audits in Workday and related systems to ensure benefits data accuracy and resolve discrepancies. Handles sensitive and confidential personal, medical, and immigration-related data with discretion and in accordance with company policies and applicable privacy regulations.

The Candidate

• Requires a High School Diploma / GED: Bachelors Degree preferred
• Requires a minimum of three years of experience in Benefits
• Must have working knowledge of benefits administration principles, leave policies, and compliance regulations (FMLA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA) with the ability to interpret plan provisions and regulatory requirements
• Must be proficient in HRIS systems and Microsoft Office

Pay: The anticipated salary range for this position in New Jersey is $90,000 - $110,000, plus bonus, when eligible. The final salary offered to a successful candidate may vary, and will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, skillset, education, business needs, etc. Catalent is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process
• 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays
• Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I
• Generous 401K match
• Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment
• Tuition Reimbursement
• WellHub - program to promote overall physical wellness

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

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