Health & Risk Consultant

Discover a world of endless possibilities at Gallagher Benefit Services, where you'll have the power to shape the future of workplaces across industries. As a member of our team, you become the driving force behind positive change, helping clients build environments where employees thrive. Embrace the opportunity to impact lives, unlock potential, and create a legacy of remarkable transformation.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

We’re looking for a passionate and driven Employee Benefit Consultant (Healthcare) to join our team – someone who thrives on building strong client relationships and delivering expert, budget-conscious advice that makes a difference.

In this role, you’ll take ownership of a portfolio of corporate clients, driving profitability and expanding service offerings while ensuring exceptional client retention through proactive account management and renewals. You’ll also be quick to spot and seize new business opportunities, always delivering high-quality service to every stakeholder.

If you’re motivated by exceeding expectations and helping businesses thrive through smarter employee benefits solutions – we’d love to hear from you.

• Maintain and develop a portfolio of corporate clients, providing high-quality advice and consultancy.
• Ensure profitability and revenue growth by growing service offerings and lines of cover.
• Achieve high client retention through effective management and renewal strategies.
• Develop new business opportunities through referrals, professional connections, and internal networks.
• Deliver high-quality services to stakeholders.
• Lead renewal strategies and negotiations for existing clients.
• Exceed revenue targets through client retention and new business initiatives.
• Identify cross-selling opportunities and secure additional revenue streams.
• Negotiate service and fee proposals within approved protocols.
• Supervise and achieve budgetary targets, maintaining financial control over client portfolios.
• Identify and address potential unprofitable clients.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, procedures, and applicable laws and regulations.

Desirable:

• Hold the relevant professional qualifications as required for individual role: Group Risk (ie CII GR1); Healthcare (CII IF7)
• Extensive and up-to-date knowledge of healthcare and group risk (i.e., products, policies, insurance market and related issues) through appropriate industry exams and CPD
• Technical knowledge and understanding

Required:

• Developing core consulting skills around communication, questioning, listening, report writing and presenting
• Proficiency in using Microsoft suite
• Awareness of the regulatory requirements in respect of ‘advised’ and ‘non-advised’ sales.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills at all levels, both internally and externally
• Excellent organisation skills, with the ability to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple tasks
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail in all areas of work, including ability to produce high standards of documentation
• Effective negotiation skills with stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal and project management abilities.
• Ability to work under pressure and tackle problems efficiently.

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 [email protected] . 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.