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Purnell & Company Inc

Broker partnerships

Scale Your Book. Protect Your Relationships. Let Us Run Enrollment.

Your clients expect a seamless benefits experience.

You shouldn’t have to build an entire enrollment department to deliver one.

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01 Scale Nationwide Enrollment Capacity
02 Protect Broker Relationship Protection
03 Execute Our Execution

Purnell & Company is the white-labeled enrollment execution partner behind benefits brokers and agencies. We provide the licensed people, technology support, employee education and operational infrastructure to execute enrollments under your brand—while you remain at the center of the client relationship.

From one complex group to enrollment support across your entire book of business, we give your agency the capacity to deliver more without adding the overhead of building and managing an internal enrollment team.

Your brand. Your client. Our execution.

Build capacity without adding headcount

Your Enrollment Department—Without Having to Build One

Growing a benefits practice creates an operational challenge.

Every new client can mean more implementation meetings, employee communications, benefit questions, scheduling, technology configuration, enrollment support, follow-up and reporting.

That work matters—but it can pull producers and account managers away from the work only they can do.

Advise clients. Build relationships. Win business. Retain accounts.

Purnell & Company handles the enrollment execution behind the scenes.

You maintain control of the relationship.

We provide the infrastructure to help you deliver.

The Purnell Broker Advantage

01

Your Brand Stays in Front

We operate as an extension of your agency—not as a competitor for the relationship.

Our enrollment services can operate behind your brand so your client experiences a coordinated extension of the service you already provide.

You own the relationship. We support the execution.

02

Nationwide Enrollment Capacity

Gain access to a licensed enrollment team without recruiting, hiring, licensing, training and managing additional internal staff.

Whether your client has employees in one location or across multiple states, Purnell & Company can scale enrollment support to the needs of the group.

Use us for:

  • A single difficult enrollment
  • Seasonal enrollment capacity
  • Multi-location employers
  • Distributed or remote workforces
  • High-touch employer groups
  • Ongoing enrollment support across your book
03

Meet Employees Wherever They Are

One enrollment method does not work for every workforce.

We build enrollment strategies around the employer and its employees.

Enrollment can include:

  • Onsite Enrollment

    Face-to-face benefit education and individual enrollment support.

  • Virtual Enrollment

    Licensed counselors meet individually with employees through virtual appointments.

  • Telephone Enrollment

    Employees receive personal enrollment assistance without needing to be onsite.

  • Self-Service Enrollment

    For employees who prefer to review and complete elections independently.

  • Hybrid Enrollment

    Combine multiple channels to reach different employee populations within the same organization.

The objective is simple:

Make it easier for employees to understand their benefits and easier for employers to complete enrollment.

More than enrollers

We Manage the Enrollment Experience

A successful enrollment begins long before the first employee makes an election.

Purnell & Company can support the enrollment process from planning through post-enrollment coordination.

  1. 01

    Pre-Enrollment

    • Enrollment strategy and implementation planning
    • Workforce and location review
    • Enrollment scheduling
    • Employee communication planning
    • Appointment strategy
    • Platform and workflow coordination
    • Benefit counselor preparation
  2. 02

    Employee Education

    • Benefits education
    • Individual benefit counseling
    • Core and voluntary benefit support
    • Bilingual enrollment assistance
    • Employee questions and decision support
  3. 03

    Enrollment Execution

    • Onsite enrollment
    • Virtual enrollment
    • Telephone enrollment
    • Self-service support
    • Appointment management
    • Employee follow-up
    • New-hire enrollment support
  4. 04

    Post-Enrollment

    • Enrollment reporting
    • Payroll coordination
    • Outstanding enrollment follow-up
    • New-hire support
    • Qualifying life-event support
    • Ongoing enrollment service

Technology flexibility

Your Technology or Ours. The Process Should Work Either Way.

Your enrollment partner should adapt to your technology strategy—not force your agency to rebuild around theirs.

Purnell & Company can work within commonly used benefit administration environments, including platforms such as:

  • Employee Navigator
  • Ease
  • Employer or client benefit systems
  • Other approved enrollment environments

Our role can include platform coordination, enrollment workflow support, implementation assistance and reporting.

The objective is not to introduce another layer of complexity.

It is to help make the systems you already use work better during enrollment.

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Employee education

Benefits Employees Understand Are Benefits Employees Can Actually Use

Enrollment should be more than clicking boxes.

Employees often need help understanding what is available, how different benefits work and how those benefits may fit their individual circumstances.

Our counselors help create an employee-centered experience built around education first.

We help employers and brokers transform enrollment from an administrative event into a meaningful benefits conversation.

That can include education around:

  • Core employee benefits
  • Voluntary benefits
  • Disability coverage
  • Life insurance
  • Accident protection
  • Critical illness protection
  • Hospital coverage
  • Dental and vision options
  • Other benefits made available through the employer

The goal is informed participation—not a product pitch.

Carrier-neutral. Broker-aligned.

We Support Your Strategy. We Don’t Replace It.

Purnell & Company is designed to work with the broker’s existing benefits strategy.

  • We are not there to take over the broker relationship.
  • We are not there to become the employer’s broker.
  • And we are not there to force every client into the same solution.

We help execute the strategy you and your client establish.

That allows your agency to expand enrollment capabilities while maintaining control over:

  • Client strategy
  • Carrier relationships
  • Benefit recommendations
  • Renewal strategy
  • Account management
  • The overall employer relationship
  1. 01Broker brand
  2. 02Purnell enrollment infrastructure
  3. 03Employer + employee experience

Think of Purnell & Company as enrollment infrastructure for your agency.

Why it matters

Give Your Producers and Account Managers Their Time Back

Your highest-value people should not spend enrollment season:

  • Chasing appointment schedules.
  • Tracking down forms.
  • Coordinating employee meetings.
  • Answering routine enrollment questions.
  • Managing every enrollment detail.
  • Following up with employees one by one.
  • Trying to determine who has and has not completed enrollment.

That is operational work.

We built Purnell & Company to help carry that load.

Your team remains focused on the client.

Our team focuses on execution.

Help your agency compete up-market

Bring Bigger Capabilities to the Table

An agency should not need hundreds of employees to deliver a sophisticated enrollment experience.

Purnell & Company allows independent brokers, boutique agencies and growing benefits practices to bring additional enrollment capacity into employer conversations.

That means you can confidently pursue opportunities that require:

  • Multiple enrollment locations
  • Large employee populations
  • Remote workforces
  • Individual benefit counseling
  • Phone enrollment
  • Virtual enrollment
  • Onsite enrollment
  • Complex scheduling
  • Bilingual employee support
  • Technology coordination
  • High-touch implementation
  • Year-round enrollment support

When a prospective client asks:

“How will you handle enrollment?”

You have an answer.

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Your brand. Your client. Our execution.

Retention starts with execution

Help Make Your Service Harder to Replace

Employers remember what happens after the benefits presentation.

  • They remember whether employees received answers.
  • They remember whether communication was clear.
  • They remember whether enrollment was organized.
  • They remember whether payroll received what it needed.
  • They remember whether someone answered the phone when a problem occurred.

Your strategy may win the client. Execution helps retain them.

Purnell & Company helps brokers add another layer of service around the relationships they have worked hard to build.

Built for different types of broker partners

Where We Fit Best

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  • Independent Benefits Brokers

    Expand your capabilities without building a large internal enrollment operation.

  • Boutique & Regional Agencies

    Add scalable enrollment infrastructure as your book grows.

  • Agencies Without an Internal Enrollment Team

    Use Purnell & Company as your outsourced enrollment operation.

  • Agencies With Internal Enrollment Resources

    Use our team for overflow capacity, multi-state groups, difficult enrollments or seasonal demand.

  • P&C Agencies Expanding Into Employee Benefits

    Add enrollment capabilities while building your benefits practice.

  • Brokers Serving High-Touch Workforces

    Support employers with distributed, shift-based, blue-collar, public-sector, school, field-based and other employee populations that may require more than self-service enrollment.

A simple partnership model

Here’s How We Start

  1. 1

    Discovery

    We learn about your agency, book of business, target clients, current enrollment process, technology environment and areas where additional capacity would help.

  2. 2

    Opportunity Review

    Identify employer groups where Purnell & Company can add value.

    This may be one client or a broader segment of your book.

  3. 3

    Enrollment Strategy

    Together, we determine the appropriate enrollment model, communication approach, technology workflow and service responsibilities.

  4. 4

    Execution

    Our team supports implementation, education, enrollment, follow-up and reporting while coordinating with your team.

  5. 5

    Ongoing Support

    We remain available for new hires, qualifying events and future enrollment needs according to the service structure established for the group.

One partner. Multiple ways to deploy us.

Use Purnell Where You Need Us Most

You do not have to hand us your entire book.

Start with:

  1. One Group

    Give us an upcoming enrollment and evaluate our process.

  2. One Segment

    Deploy us across a particular industry, market or employer size.

  3. Overflow Enrollment

    Use our capacity when your internal team is stretched.

  4. Complex Groups

    Bring us in when geography, workforce structure or scheduling makes enrollment difficult.

  5. Full Enrollment Partnership

    Integrate Purnell & Company as the enrollment execution arm supporting your broader book of business.

We can start small and scale with you.

The difference

Your Agency Becomes More Capable Without Becoming More Complicated

With Purnell & Company behind you, your agency gains access to:

  • Licensed Enrollment Professionals

    Without building the recruiting and management infrastructure yourself.

  • Nationwide Enrollment Capability

    For clients whose workforce extends beyond your immediate market.

  • Multiple Enrollment Channels

    Onsite, virtual, telephone and self-service.

  • Employee Benefits Education

    Designed to help employees better understand their options.

  • Technology Flexibility

    Support within your existing enrollment environment or an agreed-upon solution.

  • Implementation Support

    Helping coordinate the many moving pieces required before enrollment begins.

  • Post-Enrollment Coordination

    Reporting and payroll support after employee elections are completed.

  • Year-Round Enrollment Support

    For new hires and qualifying life events.

  • Broker Relationship Protection

    We work behind your agency and support the relationship you own.

The bottom line

More Capacity. Better Execution. No Need to Build It All Yourself.

The future of the benefits broker is not simply having more products.

It is having the infrastructure to deliver a better client and employee experience.

Purnell & Company gives your agency enrollment capabilities that can scale with your opportunities.

You bring the relationship. You bring the strategy. We help you deliver.

Your Brand. Our Enrollment Execution.

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Ready to Test the Partnership?

You don’t have to make a long-term commitment to determine whether we’re the right fit.

Bring us one employer group.

Let our team learn the situation, build the enrollment approach and show you how Purnell & Company can support your agency.

Let’s make your next enrollment easier—and your agency more capable.

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