Manager, Benefits

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

The Benefits Manager will be responsible for managing Blueprint Medicines’ (BPM) US employee benefits programs and assist in identifying/researching new benefits and wellness programs while ensuring compliance with federal, state, and data privacy regulations. In addition, you will provide guidance to employees, managers, HR Team members, and internal stakeholders on a wide variety of Total Rewards processes, programs, policies, and tools.

You will also be responsible for various centralized HR Operation processes and tasks as well as supporting HR initiatives and projects assigned to the Total Rewards team. You will serve as a resource to employees and provide support for employee interactions with the Total Rewards team.

What will you do?

• Research, analyze, and administer our U.S. benefits and wellness programs.
• Identify and resolve administrative issues and create process improvements and efficiencies to create a positive employee experience.
• Stay current on federal (ERISA), state, and local laws governing employee leave and benefits plans to ensure that our programs remain compliant.
• Effectively interpret the Health & Welfare Plan and 401k Plan rules to respond to employee and stakeholder inquiries relating to enrollment, plan changes, and compliance requirements.
• Accurately complete compliance reporting in accordance with regulatory requirements (ex., ACA, HIRD, and other legal reporting requirements).
• Research and develop procedures and policies for the successful implementation of new benefits programs.
• Respond to Total Rewards-related inquiries from managers and employees on plan provisions, benefits enrollments, status changes, and other general inquiries.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external vendors to ensure seamless delivery of benefits and resolve any operational issues.
• Manage BPM US Leave and Time-Off program in partnership with our leave vendor - includes effectively interpreting MA PFML, FMLA, and ADA rules to guide employees, managers, and the HR team; generating weekly leave reports; and presenting quarterly utilization results to HR leadership.
• Manage BPM US Commuter benefits by effectively interpreting the IRS codes that govern these programs; actively auditing eligibility in hrHUB, the MBTA Employer portal, and the parking garage manager; distributing MBTA passes to new participants promptly; and coordinating with the security desk to generate monthly imputed income reports for Payroll/Finance under the Daily Ticket parking program.
• Manage BPM perk benefit and well-being programs and coordinate employee-related events (ex., annual Benefits Fairs and Global Health and Well-being Pop-ups) and other Total Rewards initiatives.
• Facilitate new hire benefits overview sessions and following up with all new hires (via surveys or 1:1s) to ensure they understand their BPM benefits.
• Coordinate benefits payroll-related activities, such as auditing benefit enrollment and life event changes, 401k deferral rate changes, and 401k loan repayments.
• Assist in all aspects of open enrollment planning, including preparing communication materials and testing new program configurations in our HRIS or new technology platforms.
• Manage all benefit-related purchase orders and invoices to ensure prompt payments and coordinating vendor service agreements with the Contracts team via Blue Review platform.
• Develop and maintain employee benefit communication materials (in partnership with Internal Communications partners), including benefit brochures for the US and EU.

 What minimum qualifications do we require?

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of direct experience in benefits administration or a related role.

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate? 

• Deep understanding of ERISA, COBRA, FMLA, ACA, HIPAA, and various federal/state laws applicable to employee benefits.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and experience using an HRIS (ex. Oracle HCM or Workday) benefits module.
• Excellent time management, organization, and project management skills; ability to effectively meet deadlines and manage multiple priorities with a sense of urgency.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft presentations.
• Highly collaborative work style, with an ability to influence without authority; ability to nimbly work across multiple human resources disciplines at the same time
• Ability to handle sensitive employee information with discretion and confidentiality and adhere to strict data privacy and security protocols.
• Self-starter who identifies needs and seeks to solve them; eager to learn and grow professional skills.
• Ability to bring forward thoughtful, creative ideas to help achieve company goals
• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic workplace
• Commitment to our Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism

Why Blueprint?

At Blueprint Medicines, we achieve impactful results because of our global crew of compassionate innovators – the Blue Crew. Through authentic relationships and our collective entrepreneurial spirit and action, we are each empowered to take ownership and execute with strategic prioritization. We put trust in our people to break through norms and conventions using their individual strengths and insights, which drives our success.

This is the place where the extraordinary becomes reality, and you could be part of it.

Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Affirmative Action

At Blueprint Medicines, we foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion.  A proud Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.  We are also an E-Verify Employer.  We will make reasonable accommodations, absent undue hardship, for qualified individuals with known disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability in need of an accommodation with the application or recruiting process, please reach out to TotalRewards@blueprintmedicines.com. 

For more information, please see our EEO-AA Policy Statement, the EEO Know Your Rights Poster, as well as our Pay Transparency Statement. 

Blueprint Medicines is a global, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that invents life-changing medicines. We seek to alleviate human suffering by solving important medical problems in two core focus areas: allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. Our approach begins by targeting the root causes of disease, using deep scientific knowledge in our core focus areas and drug discovery expertise across multiple therapeutic modalities. We have a proven track record of success with two approved medicines, including bringing our medicine to patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM) in the U.S. and Europe. Leveraging our established research, development, and commercial capability and infrastructure, we now aim to significantly scale our impact by advancing a broad pipeline of programs ranging from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell diseases including SM and chronic urticaria, breast cancer and other solid tumors.