Overview

Job Location:
Guardian Pharmacy Services

Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Extraordinary Care. Extraordinary Careers.

With one of the nation’s largest, most innovative long-term care pharmacy services providers, there is no limit to the growth of your career.

Our unique business model combines the personal touch of locally operated pharmacies with the robust support of our Atlanta-based corporate team, ensuring best-in-class pharmacy care for our customers.

Why Guardian Pharmacy? We’re reimagining medication management and transforming care.

Who We Are and What We’re About:

Our core focus is delivering customized medication management solutions to support healthcare organizations serving seniors and individuals with complex care needs. With our comprehensive suite of tech-enabled pharmacy services and a dedicated team of professionals committed to enriching the lives of those we serve, we are redefining how pharmacy care is delivered.

We offer an opportunity to learn and grow your career in a fast-paced, diverse, and inclusive environment. If you are looking for a challenging, team-oriented environment in which you can put your expertise to work, then this is the place for you.

The Role:

The Benefits Manager is a highly organized and detail-oriented professional responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of Guardian’s employee benefit programs, including health, dental, vision, retirement, life insurance, and wellness. This role involves collaborating with vendors, brokers, HRIS systems, and key stakeholders to ensure the seamless administration of benefits offerings. The Benefits Manager will manage benefit plan implementation, enrollment processes, and ongoing communication with employees, all while ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations. The ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills, the ability to manage multiple priorities, and a focus on maintaining an efficient, compliant, and cost-effective benefits program.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

  • Serve as subject matter expert for Guardian Pharmacy benefits plans, responding to escalated employee inquiries, supporting Open Enrollment, benefits communications and HRIS system updates.
  • Analyze and evaluate current benefits, including usage, coverage, cost, and effectiveness, while ensuring accurate billing, payment, financial analysis and budgeting.
  • Complete special benefit projects including M&A due diligence, plan comparison and new employee education and onboarding.
  • Manage benefit compliance (e.g., FSA plan and 401k compliance testing) including working with accounting and external auditors, plan filings and maintenance of plan documents, and tracking regulatory updates and their related implementation and communications.

Education and/or Certifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, human resources or related field required
  • Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS), Certified Benefits Professional (CBP), Professional of Human Resources (PHR/SPHR) Certification, Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or other related certification and designation preferred.

Skills and Qualifications:

  • 5+ years benefits administration experience (can include finance/analytical experience) including experience partnering with benefits brokers and vendors and advanced knowledge of benefit policies, procedures and relevant laws.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate plan designs, enrollment process, and government regulations to all levels of employees.
  • Self-starter able to excel in a fast-paced, team-oriented working environment with excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
  • Proficiency in HRIS systems (Workday experience a plus) and Microsoft Office Suite

What We Offer:

Guardian provides employees with a comprehensive Total Rewards package, supporting our core value of, “Treat others as you would like to be treated.”

Compensation & Financial

  • Competitive pay
  • 401(k) with company match

Family, Health & Insurance Benefits (Full-Time employees working 30+ hours/week only)

  • Medical, Dental and Vision
  • Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Company-paid Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
  • Company-paid Long-Term Disability and optional Short-Term Disability
  • Voluntary Employee and Dependent Life, Accident and Critical Illness
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

Wellbeing

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Guardian Angels (Employee assistance fund)

Time Off

  • Paid holidays and sick days
  • Generous vacation benefits based on years of service

The Guardian Difference

Our clients require pharmacy services that aren’t “cookie cutter.” That’s why every Guardian pharmacy is locally operated and empowered with the autonomy to tailor their business to meet their clients’ needs.

Our corporate support offices, based in Atlanta, Ga., provide services such as human resources, business intelligence, legal, and marketing to promote the success of each Guardian location.

Regardless of your role at Guardian, your voice and talents matter. Because healthcare is an ever-changing industry, we encourage innovative thinking, intellectual curiosity, and diverse viewpoints to ensure we stay competitive in today’s dynamic business environment.

At Guardian, we are dedicated to fostering and advancing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Join us to discover what your best work truly looks like.