Senior Consultant - Pensions Communications in Wakefield

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.

At Gallagher, we’re united by a commitment to one another’s growth and the pursuit of shared goals. We’re looking for a Senior Consultant to join our Retirement Communications team and lead the way in delivering exceptional client service, strategic direction, and innovative communication solutions. If you have a passion for retirement communications or pensions and want to make a real impact, this is your opportunity to shape strategies, build strong relationships, and mentor a talented team.

In this role, you’ll be the trusted partner for our clients, managing relationships and ensuring their needs are met with the highest standards of service. You’ll lead strategic discussions, workshops, and meetings, collaborating with internal teams to deliver tailored retirement communication strategies that align with client goals. From overseeing project planning to ensuring the quality of complex communication materials, you’ll play a pivotal role in helping clients achieve their objectives.

Here’s how you’ll make an impact:

• Lead the end-to-end service and relationship management for assigned clients, ensuring the highest quality of work and client satisfaction.
• Develop and implement retirement communication strategies that align with business and client goals.
• Oversee project and campaign planning, ensuring deliverables meet client expectations and strategic objectives.
• Provide consultancy and strategic direction to senior stakeholders through meetings, workshops, and calls.
• Support communication ROI through measurement, analytics, and insights.

About You:

• Experience in retirement communications or pensions, with a strong understanding of the industry.
• A proven ability to manage client relationships and deliver exceptional service.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, including Board-level executives.
• A collaborative approach to problem-solving and a knack for turning challenges into opportunities.
• Strong organisational skills to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• The ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively, whether in writing or in person.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and other relevant tools.
• A passion for mentoring and developing team members to achieve their best.

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.

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.

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 us.

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 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.