Ben Essentials: Your Employee Benefits Strategy Shortcut

Read about how Ben Essentials helps HR teams implement a comprehensive benefits strategy, fast—all in one platform.

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Mar 13, 2025 ⋅ 3 min read

At Ben, we hear one thing frequently: HR Managers want to create a better, more comprehensive benefits strategy…but the project has just been pushed back. Again.

We know HR and Benefits Managers are pulled in a million directions. You’ll always have too many competing priorities on your to do list. So we built a solution that makes it easy to implement a great benefits strategy, fast.

The complete, cost-effective employee benefits solution for busy HR teams

Ben Essentials is your shortcut to a comprehensive, engaging, and cost-effective benefits strategy that you can implement in a flash. It’s designed for busy HR teams who simply don’t have the time for weeks of research, negotiations and complex implementations—never mind the ongoing management of multiple vendor relationships.

Get a comprehensive benefits strategy mapped our and ready to implement in three simple steps:

  1. Foundational insurance benefits: Bring your own or choose from selected providers with pooled risk options for foundational benefits, including:
    • Pension
    • Life Insurance
    • Income Protection
    • Private Medical Insurance
  2. Your existing benefits: Host any other employer-funded benefits within the Ben platform.
    • Keep your entire benefits strategy centralised and create a unified employee experience, with self-serve information tiles in the Ben platform
  3. Curated marketplace access: Offer additional employee self-funded benefits across our marketplace, including:
    • Health (e.g. Health screening, DNA testing, fitness membership, cash plan, optical and cancer screening
    • Finance (e.g. Payroll giving, mortgage advice and will writing)
    • Family (e.g. Workplace nursery, assisted reproduction and eldercare)
    • Lifestyle (e.g. Cycle scheme, tech scheme, EV cars and discounts portal)

Breaking down the barrier to great employee benefits

In addition to simply having the time to get started, there’s also the fact that many companies don’t have the size or scale to access the most competitive rates from vendors.

Ben Essentials unlocks enterprise-level rates through Ben’s collective purchasing power, helping you cut costs compared to sourcing benefits individually and access premium benefits typically out of reach for smaller companies.

Transform employee benefits fast with Ben Essentials

Ben Essentials transforms your employee benefits approach from a time-consuming challenge to a strategic business advantage.

  • Save time: Launch complete benefits packages quickly with minimal setup effort.
    • Offer diverse benefits without managing multiple vendors.
    • Seamlessly integrate existing benefits with new marketplace options.
    • Empower employees with self-service access to personalised benefits.
  • Cut costs: Leverage Ben's collective purchasing power for enterprise-level rates.
    • Reduce costs compared to individual benefit sourcing.
    • Access premium benefits typically beyond small business reach.
  • Simplify admin: Eliminate complexity with Ben's end-to-end benefits management.
    • Consolidate all payments and contracts under one agreement.
    • Access comprehensive reporting through a centralised dashboard.
    • Offload fulfilment responsibilities to Ben's specialists.

No more juggling multiple vendors, complicated contracts, or disconnected benefit systems. Ben Essentials brings everything together in one intelligent platform.

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