Senior Pensions Consultant
The Senior Pensions Consultant role is a dynamic, B2B position focused on corporate pensions and employee benefits. You'll manage and grow a portfolio of clients, delivering expert advice, driving profitability, and uncovering new business opportunities. With a leadership role in national initiatives and a commitment to exceeding client expectations, this is your chance to make a real impact through strategic thinking and exceptional service.
Responsibilities
* Manage and own client accounts, including high-value and complex pension and employee benefits relationships, delivering tailored solutions to meet client needs and exceed expectations.
* Provide expert consultancy on Corporate DC Pensions and employee benefits.
* Contribute to the development and achievement of Employee Benefits corporate objectives, with a focus on innovative pension solutions.
* Build strong internal and external relationships to ensure efficient, professional service delivery aligned with client expectations and service agreements.
* Drive revenue growth by retaining pension clients, generating new business, and managing high-value, specialist pension portfolios.
* Identify and secure additional revenue opportunities through cross‑selling pension and employee benefits services, referrals, and leveraging professional connections.
* Prepare and negotiate service and fee proposals for pension and benefits solutions within approved pricing structures and protocols.
* Monitor income, manage budgets, and ensure financial control over pension client portfolios, addressing unprofitable relationships with management.
* Ensure compliance with engagement and re‑engagement procedures, maintaining suitable protections for pension clients.
* Deliver high‑quality client reports, presentations, and supporting materials tailored to complex pension and employee benefits needs.
* Mentor and support Associate Consultants and team members, particularly in developing their pensions expertise.
* Participate in team meetings to share insights, drive innovation, and promote best practices in pension and employee benefits consultancy.
Qualifications
* Extensive technical expertise in employee benefits consultancy, including Corporate DC Pensions, supported by industry qualifications (e.g., PMI diploma) and ongoing CPD.
* In‑depth knowledge of regulatory requirements for advised and non‑advised sales, ensuring compliance when providing advice and recommendations.
* Proven experience in Financial Services with a track record of high sales success and managing complex, high‑value corporate client relationships.
* Exceptional customer service and relationship‑building skills, with the ability to negotiate effectively at Board level (MDs/FDs) and with senior stakeholders.
Company Vision
Discover a world of endless possibilities at Gallagher Benefit Services, where you'll have the power to shape the future of workplaces across industries. As a member of our team, you become the driving force behind positive change, helping clients build environments where employees thrive. Embrace the opportunity to impact lives, unlock potential, and create a legacy of remarkable transformation.
Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it's embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
Gallagher embraces our employees' diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest. Gallagher is Disability Confident and Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long‑term health conditions or disabilities. Should applicants require reasonable adjustments, please let us know.
Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is a Proud Living Wage employer and is committed to diversity and opportunity for all. We oppose any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age or caring responsibilities. Equal employment opportunity is extended in all aspects of the employer‑employee relationship.
Benefits
* Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to 'buy' extra days.
* Defined contribution pension scheme, with Gallagher contribution.
* Life insurance (4× basic annual salary, can be topped up to 10×).
* Income protection (up to 50% of annual income, with options to top up).
* Health cash plan or Private medical insurance.
* Three fully paid volunteering days per year.
* Employee Stock Purchase plan offering company shares at a discount.
* Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan.
* Critical illness cover.
* Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally.
* Season ticket loan.
* Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase.
* Emergency back‑up family care.
* And many more…
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