Pro Benefits Plus offers user-friendly approach to employee benefits
Enrollment Meeting on Demand is one facet of Pro Benefits Plus, a new business that focuses on problems that arise during the open enrollment period for health benefits.
The company uses an intuitive platform, taking advantage of technology to provide a more personalized experience when employees are trying to select the appropriate plan.
Ed St. Jean III and his wife Katie, Sussex County residents for nine years, saw an opportunity to give employees a better understanding of what insurance companies are offering and help companies streamline the process.
Employee benefits meetings, when employees gather in a room and options are presented to a large audience, do little to help people understand the details of various plans that are most important to each individual.
After two years of development, the Enrollment Meeting on Demand is operational. Pro Benefits Plus creates a video in a specific setting relevant to the company. Concise but very detailed, each video caters to a specific company’s benefit offerings and is presented in both English and Spanish. These videos are available at any time on any device so that employees can watch when they have time to focus, with the added benefit that they can watch with a spouse, advisor or someone familiar with the specific options a person may need.
“It is not only in our best interest, but the best interest of all our clients to provide a more unique, personalized and equal-opportunity experience to their employees. Going this route has proven effective, efficient and gained high praise, while fostering a new level of appreciation between employees and their employers,” St. Jean said.
“Providing this service to our community, our fellow community members and our businesses is what keeps us motivated,” he said. “At the end of the day it is the right thing to do, and we are proud of the product we offer because of its many benefits.”
In addition to Enrollment Meeting on Demand, Pro Benefits Plus also offers employees access to a customized portal that shows their company’s offerings and allows them to make selections at their convenience. Each portal is designed based on employer policies, including information on aspects of healthcare such as wellness and coaching as well as life insurance, personal finance debt management, retirement planning, work/ life balance, college savings, and relationships and health plans. The portal will contain the supporting documents, costs and other details to help individuals and their families build a better understanding of the options available to them at their own convenience.
“This is a great tool that not only educates and informs, but helps take stress off of both the employer and employee,” said St. Jean. The company strives to provide clients the highest level of support while taking advantage of technology and helping clients understand the health market. “Education on these important aspects of someone’s life is so important,” St. Jean said.
He emphasized Pro Benefits Plus has a strong business and community philosophy centered around providing the best service to clients and their employees.
He said he nd Katie are also involved in their church and helping to better the community, so they have implemented Project Giveback, which will donate 10% of all proceeds of their services to charities such as The United Way, Helping Up Mission, Feed My Starving Children, House of Ruth and others.
“We are honored to be able to invest in our community businesses and employees, but also have a positive impact on those in need. The core of our values is what drives us to be able to make a difference in so many lives.”
For more information, go to www.probenefitsplus.com.
