Senior Pensions Actuary in London

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 on the lookout for a talented Senior Consulting Actuary to join our UK Financial Consulting team, in a highly visible and influential role. This appointment is suited to an individual who is ready to take ownership of client relationships, lead complex projects, and play a key role in growing our corporate actuarial offering.

You’ll be at the heart of delivering expert corporate actuarial advice to sponsors of defined benefit pension schemes, helping clients tackle complex challenges with confidence. There are also opportunities to take on scheme actuary appointments so would be perfectly suited to someone with a scheme actuary certificate looking for a balance of trustee and corporate work (although this is not essential).

This is your chance to make a real difference—enhancing our actuarial consulting practice, driving its growth, and shaping its future success. We’re flexible on location and welcome applications from candidates near our offices in Manchester, London, Ipswich, or Edinburgh.

How you'll make an impact:

• Take ownership of key client relationships, acting as a trusted adviser to sponsors and trustees.
• Lead the delivery of complex expert actuarial projects from strategy through to execution.
• Provide expert advice on funding, risk management and pension strategy.
• Identify and develop new business opportunities, leveraging Gallagher’s broking relationships and wider network.
• Support and lead client pitches, contributing to the growth of the practice.
• Play a central role in shaping and expanding the corporate team, including mentoring and developing more junior colleagues over time.
• Share your expertise by speaking at industry seminars and representing Gallagher in client meetings.
• Ensure high standards by conducting thorough peer reviews and maintaining compliance.

About You:

• You’re a qualified actuary (FIA/FFA) with a wealth of experience in actuarial consultancy.
• Strong track record of managing senior client relationships and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• A self-starter who is comfortable operating autonomously and taking full ownership of client outcomes.
• Commercially aware, with an ability to identify and convert business development opportunities.
• Able to operate independently, managing priorities and delivering high-quality outputs with minimal senior support.
• Collaborative in approach, but confident leading independently when required.

Compensation and benefits:

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.

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.

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 by applicable federal, state, or local laws.