Senior Employee Benefits Consultant (Health) 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.

Overview

Are you a seasoned healthcare consultant with deep expertise in corporate health solutions and healthcare trusts? Gallagher Benefit Services (GBS) UK is seeking a driven and knowledgeable Senior Healthcare Consultant to join our Employee Benefits team. This is a regulated, specialist role requiring a strong track record in corporate healthcare consulting, with a particular emphasis on healthcare trust structures. As a Senior Healthcare Consultant, you’ll be responsible for managing a portfolio of high-value corporate clients, delivering strategic advice and tailored solutions across the healthcare spectrum. You’ll play a key role in driving revenue growth, ensuring compliance, and contributing to national initiatives and technical excellence.

How you'll make an impact

• Lead client relationships across a portfolio of corporate healthcare clients, acting as a trusted advisor.
• Deliver innovative, compliant solutions for complex employee benefits needs.
• Drive revenue through retention, cross-selling, referrals, and new business development.
• Ensure profitability across your portfolio and manage fee structures effectively.
• Provide specialist advice on healthcare trusts, including Corporate Excess/Deductible, Master Trust, and Full Healthcare Trusts.
• Collaborate with internal teams to support strategic initiatives and mentor junior colleagues.
• Maintain high standards of governance, compliance, and operational delivery.

About You

We’re looking for a confident, technically strong consultant who thrives in a fast-paced, client-focused environment. You’ll bring a deep understanding of the healthcare market and a passion for delivering exceptional service.

Qualifications:

• Relevant professional certification (e.g. CII IF7 or equivalent).
• Commitment to ongoing CPD and technical development.

Essential Experience & Skills:

• Extensive experience in corporate healthcare consulting, with demonstrable expertise in healthcare trust structures.
• Proven success managing complex client relationships and delivering high-impact solutions.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to identify growth opportunities.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deliver under pressure.
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders (e.g. MDs, FDs) and presenting at pitch level.

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. 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 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.