Senior Strategic Benefit Consultant

ISIO; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 75.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Isio, a fast-growing professional services firm, is seeking a Senior Strategic Benefit Consultant to lead and oversee engagements across strategic benefit design, benchmarking, and employee listening. You will apply market knowledge to deliver practical recommendations for UK employers and manage complex engagements with senior stakeholders.

You will grow the SBC function, coach team members and shape the proposition as the practice scales, in a hybrid, flexible work environment.

Formación

• 5+ years’ experience within an employee benefits environment.
• Strong experience designing and delivering strategic employee benefit projects; collecting, analysing and interpreting data.
• Ability to translate data insights into practical recommendations covering benefit design, competitiveness and investment priorities.
• Strong understanding of UK employee benefits market practice, emerging trends and employer strategies.
• Strong project management and client relationship management skills.
• Experience leading complex consulting engagements and managing multiple priorities.
• Ability to review, challenge and enhance deliverables to ensure high-quality outputs.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including presenting findings to senior HR, Reward and Executive stakeholders.
• Experience managing, coaching and developing team members.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to identify business development opportunities

Responsabilidades

• Lead and oversee Strategic Benefits Consulting engagements across benefit strategy, design and change.
• Deliver employer and employee listening projects and translate findings into practical recommendations.
• Lead benefits benchmarking and cost-modelling work to support benefit design and investment decisions.
• Support clients with benefits harmonisation and flexible benefit programme design projects.
• Review employee experience pathways to optimise access to benefit programmes.
• Advise on benefit governance and compliance.
• Review, challenge and enhance project deliverables for high-quality outputs.
• Manage client relationships and multiple priorities.
• Present findings to senior HR, Reward and Executive stakeholders.
• Coach and develop team members and identify business development opportunities

Conocimientos

Project management

Client relationship management

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Data interpretation

Educación

Professional qualifications in employee benefits (CII, CIPD, PMI)

Descripción del empleo

This is an exciting opportunity to join Isio’s Strategic Benefits Consulting (SBC) team at a pivotal point in its growth. The role sits in our expanding Employee Benefits business which spans Strategic Benefit Design, Workplace Health & Wellbeing Consulting, DC Pensions, Benefits Technology and Employee Engagement & Dupport.

Employers are rethinking how they spend on benefits, how they compete for talent and how their people experience what’s on offer, and they’re looking for independent, evidence-led advice to get it right. Our SBC team is growing fast to meet that demand, working with a broad range of UK employers on benefit strategy, benchmarking, harmonisation and employee listening. You’ll join a collaborative, ambitious team where you can shape client outcomes, influence how the practice develops and grow your career as the business grows.

You’ll play a leading role in growing the function: running high-profile engagements, developing a talented team and helping shape our proposition as we scale.

Position Overview

The Senior Strategic Benefit Consultant will lead and oversee the delivery of engagements across the full range of Strategic Benefit Consulting (SBC services). The role will ensure client deliverables are completed to a consistently high standard, providing expert employee benefits insight and applying significant market knowledge, benchmarking expertise and consulting experience to support clients, colleagues and project teams.

What does the role entail?

• Lead and oversee Strategic Benefits Consulting engagements across benefit strategy, design and change.
• Deliver employer and employee listening projects and translate findings into practical recommendations.
• Lead benefits benchmarking and cost-modelling work to support benefit design, competitiveness and investment decisions.
• Support clients with benefits harmonisation and flexible benefit programme design projects, including feasibility studies, flex pot design and scheme optimisation.
• Review employee experience pathways to optimise access to benefit programmes.
• Advise on benefit governance and compliance.
• Review, challenge and enhance project deliverables to ensure consistently high-quality outputs.
• Manage client relationships, complex consulting engagements and multiple priorities.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior HR, Reward and Executive stakeholders.
• Manage, coach and develop team members, while identifying business development opportunities.

What we’re looking for?

Essential skills and experience

• 5+ years’ experience within an employee benefits environment.
• Strong experience designing and delivering strategic employee benefit projects, including collecting, analysing and interpreting employee, employer and market data.
• Ability to translate data insights into practical recommendations covering benefit design, competitiveness, employee value proposition and investment priorities.
• Strong understanding of UK employee benefits market practice, emerging trends and employer strategies.
• Strong project management and client relationship management skills.
• Experience leading complex consulting engagements and managing multiple priorities.
• Ability to review, challenge and enhance deliverables to ensure high-quality outputs.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including presenting findings to senior HR, Reward and Executive stakeholders.
• Experience managing, coaching and developing team members.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to identify business development opportunities

Desirable skills and experience

• Practical in-house experience.
• Understanding of employee value proposition design and evaluation.
• A good level of understanding of compensation models and total reward strategy.
• Experience delivering consulting projects linked to flexible benefit programmes, including feasibility studies, flex pot design and scheme optimisation.
• Broader pension and reward technology knowledge.
• Professional qualifications in employee benefits from recognised bodies such as the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), CIPD or the Pensions Management Institute (PMI).

Why Join Isio

Isio is a fast-growing professional services business, that offers career development through an evolving client base, diverse and meaningful work, nationwide opportunities, and a culture that rewards high performance and accountability.

We hold ourselves to the highest standards and our values guide how we advise our clients, how we operate as a business and how we work together as a team. We call it the Isio Attitude. We encourage our people to be bold, to communicate with conviction, and to deliver advice that matters.

Here, growth brings opportunity - more responsibility, more clients, and work that stretches and develops you. We invest in training and development so you can expand your skills and explore different career paths across diverse markets to make your mark. Isio is a place to realise your potential and build a career with impact. You can find out more about Isio and the benefits we offer on our career's website Isio - Careers & Benefits.

About Isio

A progressive advisory firm, partnering with clients of all sizes to deliver expertise in pensions, employee benefits and wealth advisory services.

Working with pension trustees, employers, individuals, families and their offices, we are supported by talented colleagues across 10 UK offices. With a Big 4 heritage we combine a strong focus on quality with a fresh perspective challenging traditional thinking.

Our culture shapes our work; we foster a supportive environment where we develop our people to grow and fulfil their potential. We invest in our services, products and technology, and provide clear, expert solutions for our clients. This brings clarity, confidence, and better outcomes for everyone.

At Isio, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse workplace, in which our colleagues feel they belong, regardless of background or difference. We uphold the values of respect, fairness, and inclusion in our actions and decisions. We believe that by adhering to these principles, we will create a stronger, more innovative, and supportive environment for all, as well as ensuring that the advice and support we provide to our clients is more creative, more insightful and leaves a lasting impact.

We can offer a hybrid, flexible approach to work, supporting a work-life balance that works for you. Isio Group is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

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