Gallagher
Senior Employee Benefits Consultant
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Senior Employee Benefits Consultant – Gallagher Benefit Services
About the Role
At Gallagher Benefit Services, you’ll be a trusted partner to organisations navigating their most important people decisions. You’ll help build better workplaces where employees feel supported, empowered, and inspired to thrive, shaping benefit strategies, wellbeing programs, and addressing workforce challenges.
Our team of bold explorers, trusted experts, and compassionate partners solves problems, builds talent, and defines the future of work. If you’re drawn to a place where your contribution matters—where ideas grow and meaningful impact is celebrated—think bigger with Gallagher.
Overview
Join Gallagher as a Senior Employee Benefits Consultant and thrive in a strategic, client-focused role. You’ll collaborate with some of our highest-profile SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) clients to develop employee benefits strategies that drive value and growth.
Based across our London, Woking, Bristol, Birmingham, or Edinburgh offices (flexibility for other locations possible), you’ll:
- Deliver exceptional commercial outcomes
- Mentor and empower talented colleagues
- Shape the team’s ability to deliver smarter, faster solutions
How You’ll Make an Impact
As a strategic partner, your focus is on advancing Gallagher’s most significant client relationships:
Client Engagement & Growth
- Own and develop your portfolio of high-value accounts, ensuring client retention, revenue growth, and profitability.
- Lead pitches, proposals, and negotiations to secure new opportunities and expand Gallagher’s offerings.
- Guide senior stakeholders through workplace pensions, healthcare, and group risk solutions, aligning benefits with business goals.
Expertise & Leadership
- Deliver technical guidance across complex projects, fostering collaboration and innovation.
- Mentor junior consultants, helping them build skills and expertise.
- Champion process improvements, enhancing internal efficiency and delivery quality.
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Driving Success
- Influence commercial strategy at a senior level—turning bespoke advice into actionable business impact.
- Cultivate long-term relationships rooted in trust, helping clients anticipate needs before they arise.
About You
We’re seeking a seasoned consultant with proven expertise in employee benefits, including pensions, healthcare, and group risk. Your ability to partner with high-profile clients, drive revenue, and empower teams will make Gallagher stand out. Key qualities include:
- ** industriexperience**: 10+ years in employee benefits consulting, ideally with workplace pensions, group risk, and healthcare experience.
- Client Management: A proven track record of managing complex, high-value SME accounts—retaining relationships, nurturing opportunities, and achieving exceptional ROI outcomes.
- Strategic Mindset: The ability to connect technical advice with business-changing results, demonstrating commercial acumen.
- Leadership: Passion for mentoring colleagues, leading change initiatives, and building high-performing teams.
- Business Development: Confidence in pitching, securing new business, and scouting growth opportunities within Gallagher’s client ecosystem.
- Process Innovation: A proactive drive to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and elevate client delivery.
- Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills, adept at inspiring, influencing, and negotiating at all levels of an organisation.
- Ethics & Standards: Deep commitment to transparency, integrity, and outstanding client service.
Your Reward
Beyond a competitive salary, excellent career growth opportunities, and a collaborative team environment, Gallagher offers an unrivalled benefits package:
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Core Benefits
- 25+ days holiday (with bank holidays included), plus option to buy extra days.
- Defined contribution pension scheme, matched by Gallagher.
- Life insurance (initially pays 4x basic annual salary, extendable to 10x).
- Income protection covering up to 50% of salary, expandable via top-ups.
- Health cash plan or private medical insurance.
Additional Perks
- Three paid volunteering days per year.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (company shares at a discount).
- HMRC-approved Share Incentive Plan (tax-efficient).
- Critical illness cover.
- Discounted gym membership across 3,000 UK gyms.
- Season ticket loan.
- Discounted voucher portal for shopping, travel, and lifestyle savings.
- Emergency childcare backup.
Inclusion & Diversity
At Gallagher, diversity and inclusion isn’t policy—it’s DNA, woven into our 20+ years of creating impactful workplaces. We belong to the Living Wage Foundation and hold a Disability Confident Commitment, proving that:
- Everyone is valued for who they are—identities, backgrounds, and talents play a vital role in driving innov.
- Accessibility matters. If you encounter obstacles during the recruitment process due to disability, let us know (via TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com) so we can support you.
Gallagher is legally committed to equal employment opportunity, free from discrimination based on:
- Race, colour, religion, gender identity, transgender status
- Sexual orientation, age, creed, parenthood/or care responsibilities
- Disability, citizenship, and military service
We believe in fairness, equity, creativity, and collaboration, and we ask you to join us in upholding these principles.
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