Senior Workplace Savings Consultant (DC Pensions)

Mercer; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercer Marsh Benefits (MMB) is seeking a Senior Workplace Savings Consultant to join our Corporate Workplace Saving team in Bristol, Birmingham or London. This hybrid role requires three days in the office each week, with opportunities to support clients across the UK.

You will deliver pension and workplace savings services, help clients with Automatic Enrolment using Darwin, and lead Darwin-related projects while supporting growth and retention targets.

Qualifications

• Solid relevant experience in client facing DC pension consulting.
• CII Level 4 qualification or working towards.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, organisational, time-management skills.
• Have a commercially focused mind-set.
• Being flexible to meet the needs of the team.

Responsibilities

• Provide clients with pension consulting services in line with the client’s service schedule.
• Support clients with Automatic Enrolment and the use of the AE module on Darwin.
• Provide pension consultancy services, including scoping and managing Darwin related projects.
• Meet your client retention target, ensuring clients remain profitable and create efficiencies.
• Cross-selling/product mix. Deliver the whole firm to the client. Identify opportunities where you or your colleagues from the wider team or business could assist the client meet their goals.
• Know your retention and growth targets for the year as well as your pipeline and have an evolving plan as to how you will achieve your goals.
• Support with the development of Associate Workplace Saving Consultants

Skills

DC pension consulting

Client facing

Communication

Time management

Commercial mindset

Education

CII Level 4 qualification

Tools

Darwin platform

Auto-enrolment software

Job description

Mercer Marsh Benefits (MMB) are looking for a Senior Workplace Savings Consultant to join our Corporate Workplace Saving team in either Bristol, Birmingham or London. This is a hybrid working role, with a requirement work three-days per week in the office.

The MMB Corporate Workplace Saving team provides DC pension consulting services and Darwin Pension Specialist Consultancy to a range of clients, the majority of which use Darwin, our SaaS (that’s software as a service) platform for global benefits management, auto‑enrolment and employee engagement.

As a Senior Workplace Savings Consultant, you will work with leading companies in the UK and provide pension / wider workplace savings and Darwin consultancy services to their allocated clients.

We will count on you to:

• Provide clients with pension consulting services in line with the client’s service schedule
• Support clients with Automatic Enrolment and the use of the AE module on Darwin
• Provide pension consultancy services, including scoping and managing Darwin related projects
• Meet your client retention target, ensuring clients remain profitable and create efficiencies
• Cross-selling/product mix. Deliver the whole firm to the client. Identify opportunities where you or your colleagues from the wider team or business could assist the client meet their goals
• Know your retention and growth targets for the year as well as your pipeline and have an evolving plan as to how you will achieve your goals
• Support with the development of Associate Workplace Saving Consultants

What you need to have:

• Solid relevant experience in client facing DC pension consulting role
• CII or equivalent level 4 qualification or working towards
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, organisational, time-management skills.
• Have a commercially focused mind-set
• Being flexible to meet the needs of the team

What makes you stand out:

• Experience of using an employee benefit platform or Auto-enrolment software
• Wider employee benefits and financial wellbeing experience.

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well‑being

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at [e-mail].

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.