Director - Health & Benefits, Large Corporate

Director – Health & Benefits, Large Corporate

• 202602178

• London, England, United Kingdom

• Full time

Description

Join a Leading Centre of Excellence in Health & Benefits

The Health & Benefits GB practice is a specialist Centre of Excellence, delivering market-leading consulting across health, wellbeing, and protection for some of the UK's largest corporate clients.
With a team of over 200 consultants and support professionals—including 20 qualified medical clinicians—we are at the forefront of designing, financing, and managing innovative, integrated health solutions tailored to each client's unique needs.

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing team that is shaping the future of workplace health and wellbeing, where expertise, collaboration, and strategic client partnerships drive meaningful impact.

The Role

As a Director – Health & Benefits, Large Corporate, you will provide strategic healthcare consulting advice to a portfolio of predominantly large corporate clients, advising on both community- and experience-rated private medical insurance schemes, alongside a broad range of health and wellbeing benefits.
You will act as a trusted advisor to clients, helping them design, implement and optimise their health and wellbeing strategies while delivering commercially focused solutions that align with their business objectives.

Clients
• Lead strategic consulting engagements for large corporate clients across the design, implementation and ongoing management of complex health-related benefit programmes.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a strategic advisor on health, risk and wellbeing initiatives.
• Provide expert technical guidance on market developments, benefit design, insurer strategies and funding approaches.
• Partner effectively with insurers, vendors and internal specialists to deliver integrated client solutions.
• Lead or play a key role within client account teams, ensuring exceptional quality, commercial outcomes and delivery against agreed timelines.
• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and support business development initiatives.

Financial
• Meet chargeable hours and revenue objectives.
• Contribute to the growth of the business through account development, cross-selling opportunities and winning new client relationships.
• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness in managing client portfolios and delivering profitable consulting engagements.

People
• Build strong relationships across multidisciplinary teams and collaborate effectively with colleagues across Health & Benefits and the wider business.
• Coach and share technical expertise with junior team members where appropriate.
• Demonstrate confidence and credibility when engaging with clients and colleagues at all levels, including senior leadership.

Excellence
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance client delivery, processes and operational efficiency.
• Analyse complex healthcare and claims data to identify trends, generate meaningful insights and develop strategic recommendations.
• Lead benchmarking studies, market reviews and insurer evaluations to support client decision-making.
• Produce high-quality client reports, presentations and strategic recommendations.
• Maintain a strong understanding of market developments, regulatory changes and emerging health and wellbeing trends.

Qualifications

What you’ll bring

• Strong technical expertise across corporate health-related benefit programmes, including Private Medical Insurance (PMI), Dental, Health Cash Plans, Travel, Personal Accident, Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) and broader health and wellbeing solutions.
• Demonstrable experience advising large corporate clients, with the technical depth and consulting capability to manage complex benefit programmes and provide strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of the wider employee health, risk and wellbeing landscape, ideally gained within a leading employee benefits consultancy, brokerage or insurer.
• Proven ability to advise clients on benefit design, funding methodologies, insurer markets, governance, renewals and long-term health benefit strategies.
• A highly consultative approach, with the confidence to challenge constructively, influence decision-making and build trusted client relationships.
• Strong commercial acumen, with experience identifying opportunities to grow existing accounts and contribute to new business development.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and translate findings into practical, commercially focused recommendations.
• Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills, with experience presenting to senior client stakeholders.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• A proactive and accountable approach, demonstrating ownership, sound judgement and resilience when managing competing client demands.
• Experience mentoring or supporting junior colleagues would be advantageous.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

What we offer
Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally. You'll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments, all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.

We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer
We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email [email protected]

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