Risk Consultant

Benifex Limited; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work

Brand discounts

25 days holiday

Birthday off

Wellbeing days

Healthcare cash plan

Employee Assistance Plan

Income protection

Life assurance

Referral bonuses

Enhanced parental leave

Work from Anywhere 90 days

Buy and Sell holidays

Benifex card

Job summary

Benifex Limited is seeking a Risk Consultant to provide consultancy on Risk Benefits for mid-to-high value customers on the OneHub platform. You will manage, retain, and grow corporate clients across multiple service lines, including Group Risk products like Income Protection and Critical Illness.

The role offers a hybrid work arrangement with a focus on delivering exceptional client outcomes and a defined career path within the Corporate Benefits team.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of commercial delivery for Risk customers.
• Experience delivering Risk consulting advice to large corporates.
• Understanding of FCA procedures and requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Grow revenue across multiple services for corporate clients.
• Understand customer aims, decision makers and risks strategy.
• Lead meetings and negotiate with clients and experts.
• Expand services per customer and cross-sell where possible.
• Ensure timely delivery of services per project plan with stakeholders.

Skills

Commercial delivery

Risk consulting

FCA procedures

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Consultative selling

Relationship building

Cross-functional

Communication skills

Corporate benefits

Job description

Great Benefits

£40,000-60,000

Who are Benifex?

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.

Why should you apply?

• Autonomy: manage your own workload and decide best to deliver exceptional experiences to our customers
• Team: be part of a friendly, supportive and high performing team who work together effectively to deliver for our customers
• Progression: a clearly defined career path with the next step being Senior Consultant
• Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Technology award winner
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position.

Great Benefits

• Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.
• Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more
• 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays
• Your birthday off
• Two half day wellbeing days
• Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare
• Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support
• Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)
• Referral bonuses
• Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days
• Buy and Sell scheme for holidays
• £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Risk Consultant in our wonderful Corporate Benefits team! This is an ideal progression step for those wanting to take their next step in broking consultancy.

As a Risk Consultant you will provide full consultancy services on Risk Benefits to a portfolio of mid to high value customers who will predominantly be based on our online flexible benefits platform - OneHub. This will involve managing, retaining, and growing corporate customers that span multiple service lines within Group Risk, such as Group Income Protection, Critical Illness, and more.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to profitable revenue growth across multiple services and the achievement of the Corporate Benefits’ team strategy, plans and targets.
• To build detailed knowledge of each of customer account, their Risk strategy/approach and decision makers to fully understand their aims, objectives and ambitions.
• Secure broking meetings, coordinating relevant product and service experts and stakeholders as required. Compile and lead high quality presentations and negotiations.
• Expand the level of business within existing services and expand the number of services per customer (cross sell).
• To ensure timely delivery of agreed services to the client in line with the Benifex project plan. This will involve working closely with Benifex Client Service Directors and Strategic Consultancy team members to deliver terms as required by the business. This may involve weekly project calls and attending and presenting at quarterly client meetings

What are we looking for?

• Proven successful track record of commercial delivery and business development of Risk customers
• Proven experience of delivering Risk consulting advice and solutions, as well as presenting to, large corporate customers
• Technical proficiency:
  • Advanced knowledge of how Group Risk products (Group Life Assurance, Income Protection, Critical Illness, Travel Insurance and Partner Life Assurance etc.).
  • GR1 qualified (or working towards it)
  • Clear understanding of FCA procedures and requirements
• Able to recognise and ensure delivery of customer service excellence
• Financial / P&L management and budgeting experience
• Excellent customer relationship building and stakeholder management skills with ability to build a network of contacts, both internally and externally
• Consultative selling skills
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills
• Ability to work cross functionally across diverse teams, facilitating collaborative working to ensure delivery for customers
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of the corporate benefits environment

Our interview process

• Initial informal call with the Talent team
• Interview with the hiring manager and a member of the team
• Final interview with the Director

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.