SME Healthcare Consultant
4 days ago
Lytham St Annes
Introduction 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. Overview In this role, you’ll maintain and develop a portfolio of new and existing corporate clients by providing high-quality advice, to an agreed budget, with a specific focus on client retention. You’ll identify and expand lines of cover and service delivery from on-going clients via cross-selling while providing a professional high quality service to all clients, colleagues, and other third parties. How you'll make an impact • You'll be responsible for client account ownership – anticipate and respond to the ongoing and future needs and objectives of clients, with a prompt and flexible approach to meet and exceed their expectations and ensure consistent delivery of outstanding service., • Deal with the servicing of all allocated clients including renewals, mid-term amendments and claims and also attend meetings with clients as and when appropriate and/or required, • Process applications and schemes in accordance with published procedures, and take shared responsibility for ensuring that suitability report, fact find and anti-money laundering procedures are properly followed, • Demonstrate extensive and up-to-date technical healthcare knowledge at all times, advising clients as required within the designated Permitted Areas of Activity as confirmed by line management/Compliance, • Maintain and develop strong relationships with both new and existing corporate clients, and is relied upon as their trusted adviser, • Develop effective internal and external relationships to assist in providing an efficient professional service to clients in line with service agreements and manage their expectations on work being undertaken, • Achieve and exceed revenue targets, through retention of existing clients and new business generation to existing clients via cross-selling., • Prepare detailed client reports, PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, etc, • Ensure all work carried out and all communications with clients are in accordance with our compliance procedures and anti-money laundering procedures are followed, • Plus any additional duties and responsibilities that may reasonably be expected to be undertaken in accordance with the role. About You Desirable: • CII qualification, • Technical knowledge and understanding, • Strong verbal and written communication skills at all levels, both internally and externally, • High level of accuracy and attention to detail in all areas of work, including ability to produce high standards of documentation, • Continous development of core consulting skills around communication, questioning, listening, report writing and presenting, • Proficiency in using Microsoft suite, • Awareness of the regulatory requirements in respect of ‘advised’ and ‘non-advised’ sales. 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, • 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 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 ___ . 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.