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At Gallagher Benefit Services, you’re a trusted partner to organizations navigating some of their most important people decisions. We help clients build better workplaces, where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to thrive. Whether it’s shaping benefit strategies, designing wellbeing programs, or advising on workforce challenges, the work you do here creates meaningful change for businesses and the people who power them. We’re a community of bold explorers, trusted experts, and compassionate partners; working side by side to solve problems, and shape the future of work. Here, curiosity is encouraged, collaboration is second nature, and your ideas have room to grow. If you’re looking for a place where your contribution matters and where you can help build a better world of work; think of Gallagher.

Looking for your next challenge? As a Senior Consultant in Communications, you’ll take charge of managing client accounts, ensuring exceptional service, and building strong relationships with stakeholders.

You’ll be hands on with problem solving, offering expert advice, managing risks, and driving growth and profitability for your clients. If you’re proactive, love working with people, and want to make an impact, this could be the perfect role for you!

Client Delivery:

• Proactively accountable for the whole service and relationship, including the quality of all work provided and client satisfaction.

• Senior stakeholder management, consultancy and challenge; including facilitating senior stakeholder meetings, workshops, video conferences and calls.

• Constant collaboration with internal colleagues and subject-matter experts to provide the highest standard of service, ensuring the full scope of our expertise is represented and all opportunities are explored.

• Implementation of overarching communication strategy and communication deliver.

• Project and campaign planning and oversight, ensuring alignment to overarching strategy.

• Project-specific accountability and quality (including complex copy accuracy).

• Supporting communication ROI – measurement, learnings, analytics and insights.

• Commercial client profitability, recoverability and growth.

• Problem solving and risk mitigation – client & internal.

Relationships:

• Build strong relationships (internal and external) that enable effective, proactive consulting with clients in relation to their communication challenges and business strategy.

• Become a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders, building a reputation as their ‘go to’ communication expert and encouraging business referrals to wider communication opportunities.

• Mitigate conflicts by proactively seeking outcomes that are acceptable to all stakeholders.

• Demonstrate influence and professionalism internally amongst colleagues, positively representing the business and its culture, and stepping up to provide senior support and leadership for the wider team when required.

Administration:

• Ensure the Governance of your team, leading by example and championing our processes, holding appropriate members of project teams accountable.

• Ensure timely completion and quality of all status reports, timing plans and contact reports produced by the appropriate team members on your clients’ projects.

• Accurately record all chargeable and non-chargeable time.

• Ensure accurate and timely management of critical business tools as well as overseeing the invoicing process.

Business development

• Drive clients’ yearly client development plans.

• Ensure the profitable growth of the business by identifying and proactively developing opportunities to secure additional revenue from existing clients and new client relationships.

• Contribute to the preparation and delivery of proposals and presentations for use in new business and marketing opportunities. Attend new business pitches and meetings and lead the on-boarding of new clients when required.

• Act as a representative for Gallagher Communication and Gallagher.

• Proactively develop client case studies and secure testimonials.

• Develop and maintain industry and proposition knowledge in required areas.

Technical Knowledge

• Change communication and wider IC.

• Industry awareness, knowledge and technical understanding.

Experience

• Consultancy or agency background strongly desired.

• Demonstrable track record of working directly with senior stakeholders, including Board level executives and having sole responsibility for managing complex client accounts.

• People management experience.

Skills/other

• Service orientated: outstanding customer service, ability to translate client needs, demonstrates commerciality in their actions, management of expectations, developing and maintaining strong relationships.

• Excellent organisation skills, with ability to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple tasks.

• Core consulting skills in communication and project implementation, including: proactivity, questioning, listening and taking a collaborative/partnership approach with clients (not order-taking).

• Ability to work under pressure, solve problems and develop workable solutions.

• High level of accuracy and attention to detail in all areas of work, including ability to produce high standards of documentation.

• Confidence to challenge and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders when required.

• Able to deal with change in a positive way.

• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office and computing skills.

• Creative and technical copywriting and copy-editing.

• Experience of proofreading.

• Basic presentation preparation and delivery

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 TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com . 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.