Senior Pension Consultant, London

Howden is a collective – a group of talented and passionate people all around the world. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 18,000 employees spanning over 100 countries.

People join Howden for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It’s what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down headhunters for years. Whatever your priorities – work / life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering – you’ll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.

Howden is looking for a Senior Pension Consultant to join the Pensions team within Howden Health & Benefits. You will be the main point of contact for prospects, key clients, and workplace savings providers to ensure compliant, efficiently run workplace pension schemes and well-informed membership. Through a clearly communicated proposition, you will also secure new clients and provide appropriate solutions to existing clients.

This role requires the right individual to be able to build client relationships at the highest levels within HR, ensure delivery of our services, prove the value of our partnership to them and expand our role and revenue with them. In addition to being a Pensions expert, the individual also needs to be commercially minded, protecting and retaining their business, whilst also seeking new opportunities across the benefits spectrum.

Please note this is a full-time, permanent role that is remote and can be based anywhere in the UK (you will need to come into London only once per month and attend client sites ad hoc).

Role Responsibilities:

1. Maintain a personal portfolio of clients for whom you deliver consulting and broking services. For this role, the portfolio value will be approximately £300K to £320K per annum.
2. Develop strong relationships with those clients, to ensure their satisfaction and continued business.
3. Consult with those clients, on their business, people and benefits challenges and opportunities, developing a deep understanding of their business and needs.
4. Ensuring that all services agreed in the scope of services are delivered within agreed timeframes.
5. Create and identify opportunities to grow our role with those clients and generate more revenue. This includes opportunities outside of pensions, including flex, healthcare, wellbeing, international and general insurance, working with other members of the HEBW team.
6. Work with the wider HEBW team to ensure all other services are effectively delivered to those clients.
7. Maintain an expert knowledge of the Pensions market and products, to be able to provide the highest levels of guidance and insights.
8. Support the new business team from time-to-time with pitches and proposals, in your capacity as a Pensions expert, to support the winning of new clients into HEBW.
9. Develop strong working relationships with the HEBW protection, flex, healthcare, wellbeing and international teams to ensure client opportunities are being uncovered, developed and closed.
10. Work with the wider business to develop and strengthen our health and wellbeing proposition, such that they look to us a leading employee benefits consultancy, able to service their needs.
11. Work with the pension providers to ensure their delivery to our client base.

Role Requirements:

Previous experience in a similar client-facing pension consulting role within Employee Benefits, gained from working in either an employee benefits consultancy or an insurance provider.

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define. At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type. Instead, we’re looking for individuals who share the same values as us:

• Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new.
• We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges.
• We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond.

Reasonable adjustments

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations at Howden to ensure that our positions align well with your needs. Besides the usual adjustments such as software, IT, and office setups, we can also accommodate other changes such as flexible hours or hybrid working.

If you're excited by this role but have some doubts about whether it’s the right fit for you, send us your application – if your profile fits the role’s criteria, we will be in touch to assist in helping to get you set up with any reasonable adjustments you may require.

*Not all positions can accommodate changes to working hours or locations. Reach out to your Recruitment Partner if you want to know more.