Employee Benefits Consultant

Employee Benefits Consultant

Mercer has an excellent opportunity for an experienced Employee Benefits Consultant to help our clients deal with complex employee health and benefits issues.

Our Employee Health & Benefits business is one of the UK’s largest employee benefit consultancies. You will develop new business and manage your own portfolio of large corporate clients on a broad base of Employee Benefits Issues in Healthcare / PMI, Group Risk and/or Insured Pensions. You will work closely with your clients to identify their needs and deliver practical, cost-effective and fully compliant solutions that help manage the costs, people risks and complexities of their Employee Benefits.

Working from our Bristol office you will:

• Develop and maintain a portfolio of clients, by providing quality consulting advice relating to Group Risk, Pensions and Private Medical Insurance.
• Ensure that revenue from this portfolio is profitable, identify and expand cross selling opportunities and service delivery.
• Identify, research and actively pursue new business opportunities.
• Take overall responsibility for the delivery to the client of the agreed services.
• Manage and develop strong and profitable client relationships.
• Work pro-actively with internal teams to deliver client expectations in line with agreed client account plans.
• Maintain and develop your industry and technical knowledge.
• Compliance with sales process and Miller Heiman tools.
• Act as role model with integrity and professionalism.
• Build and maintain a professional network of peers internally and externally, leveraging these relationships and identifying further sales opportunities where possible
• Provide a service compliant with all Mercer procedures, Code of Professional Conduct and the FCA.

£Competitive Salary + Car Allowance + Bonus + Excellent Benefits Package

Qualifications

Skills & Experience required:

• Minimum of 2 years Group Risk and/or Insured DC Pensions and/or PMI / Healthcare Consulting experience
• Experience of working with large corporate companies
• Financial and Commercial acumen (including fee negotiation skills)
• Excellent consulting and client relationship management skills
• Technical, product and process knowledge (Group Risk, Pensions, PMI)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• SalesForce.com or similar CRM experience would be an advantage