Associate Consultant

At Gallagher Benefit Services, you’re a trusted partner to organizations navigating some of their most important people decisions.
 
We help clients build better workplaces, where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to thrive. Whether it’s shaping benefit strategies, designing wellbeing programs, or advising on workforce challenges, the work you do here creates meaningful change for businesses and the people who power them.
 
We’re a community of bold explorers, trusted experts, and compassionate partners; If you’re looking for a place where your contribution matters and where you can help build a better world of work; We’re looking for a proactive and client-focused Associate Consultant to join our Corporate Pensions & Benefits team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a non-regulated, B2B environment, supporting a portfolio of corporate clients and contributing to the delivery of high-quality consultancy services.
 
You’ll work closely with Consultants and senior colleagues to provide technical support, manage client relationships, and help deliver tailored solutions across pensions, group risk, and healthcare benefits. You’ll also take ownership of a small portfolio of clients, developing your consulting skills and commercial acumen in a collaborative and supportive team.


Manage a small portfolio of corporate clients, delivering high-quality advice and consultancy within agreed budgets
Support Consultants in all aspects of client delivery, including scheme renewals, reporting, and meeting preparation
Build strong relationships with clients, providers, and internal teams to ensure seamless service delivery
Monitor client profitability, support fee invoicing, and contribute to revenue growth through retention and upselling
Maintain accurate records, manage diaries, and ensure all client deadlines and service levels are met
Stay up to date with technical knowledge across pensions, group risk, and healthcare, supported by ongoing training and Continuing Professional Development


Experienced in financial services or employee benefits, ideally in a client-facing or support role
Technically curious, with a developing knowledge of corporate DC pensions, group risk, and healthcare
Comfortable using Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and internal systems
A-Levels (including English and Maths) – degree level desirable

Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.
Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
Health cash plan or Private medical insurance
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
We value inclusion and diversity
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 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.
We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.
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Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.
Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.