Senior Pension Consultant

4 days ago


Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Gallagher Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year

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
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.

How You'll Make An Impact

  • 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.

About You

  • 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.

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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