Associate Pension Consultant
2 days ago
Introduction
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; working side by side to solve problems, and shape the future of work. Here, curiosity is encouraged, collaboration is second nature, and your ideas have room to grow.
If you're looking for a place where your contribution matters and where you can help build a better world of work; think of Gallagher.
Overview
Are you ready to elevate your career with an outstanding opportunity in the Finance and Insurance sector? Join Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. as an Associate Pensions Consultant and become a part of a team that values excellence, collaboration, and innovation. This role is crafted for professionals who are eager to provide elite service and make a tangible impact on our diverse client portfolio
How You'll Make An Impact
- Support Lead Consultant: Assist in daily account management for a client portfolio, ensuring flawless service delivery.
- Client Interaction: Anticipate and respond to client needs with timely, flexible service, developing and maintaining positive relationships with corporate clients.
- Revenue and Growth: Assist in achieving revenue targets through client retention and growth, conducting pension market reviews, and helping to implement pension schemes.
- Governance and Compliance: Provide pension governance duties, manage action poaints from meetings, and ensure client compliance with Automatic Enrolment duties.
- Employee Engagement: Assist with employee 1:1s, onsite presentations, and prepare communications for workplace pension schemes and benefits.
- Technical Expertise: Maintain up-to-date technical knowledge of employee benefits, support salary exchange guidance, and address scheme member queries.
- Relationship Building: Develop internal and third-party relationships for efficient service delivery.
- Presentation Preparation: Prepare compelling PowerPoint presentations for clients.
- Financial Oversight: Assist in monitoring income and maintaining financial control over budgets.
- Time Management: Manage time effectively to meet client deadlines and service levels.
About You
- Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of Corporate DC pensions; additional familiarity with Group Risk and Healthcare is advantageous.
- Training and Development: Enthusiastic about ongoing training and development to stay current with industry, sector, and technical knowledge.
- Consulting Skills: Proficient in communication, questioning, listening, report writing, and presenting.
- Technical Proficiency: Strong skills in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and internal systems.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Understanding of regulatory requirements for both 'advised' and 'non-advised' sales.
- Experience: Previous experience in a similar role within Financial Services or administration is preferred.
- Customer Service: Outstanding customer service and relationship-building skills.
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication abilities.
- Organizational Skills: Outstanding organizational skills to meet tight deadlines and manage multiple tasks efficiently.
- Attention to Detail: High accuracy and attention to detail in documentation.
Be part of a dynamic team where your contributions are valued and your professional growth is supported. At Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., we believe in encouraging an inclusive and collaborative environment where ambitious professionals can thrive and compete on a global stage. Join us to not only meet but exceed client expectations with your proven skills and dedication
Compensation And Benefits
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.
Below are the
minimum core benefits
you'll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:
- 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
- Income protection, we'll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
- Health cash plan or Private medical insurance
Other benefits include:
- 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…
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.
Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with . If you'd prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.
Our employing entity, Arthur J. 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.
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