Retirement Guidance Associate

Retirement Guidance Associate page is loaded## Retirement Guidance Associatelocations: Edinburgh, UKtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 4 Days Agotime left to apply: End Date: September 26, 2025 (9 days left to apply)job requisition id: R20059394## Job Description Summary## Job Description**Retirement Guidance Associate****Permanent****Location: Edinburgh** (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)**Salary:** A competitive salary from **£30,400 – £38,000** depending on the experience you can bring**Closing date: 26th September 2025**As a purpose-led business, we\’re focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We\’re here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grand or humble their ambitions.**We help people live their best lives**. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.As a Retirement Guidance Associate within our Aegon Assist team you will be responsible for providing telephone-based support and guidance to new or existing Aegon customers to provide sufficient, relevant information to allow them to make financial planning decisions to their pension pre, at, or post-retirement.Responsibilities will include having focused discussions and informing the customer of all the relevant options, risks and benefits as well as answering any technical questions to enable them to make an informed decision. There may be very occasional travel to help the team and wider business to deliver in-person events.You will deliver a first-class customer experience for colleagues over telephone. We are looking for someone who has the ability to prioritise and organise a demanding workload to meet volume targets within a regulatory environment.**We’d love to hear from you if you have:*** Exceptional customer service skills.* A base knowledge of pension products.* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.* Previously worked well as part of a team and with other departments to help develop potential customer referrals.* Strong problem-solving skills – the ability to take control of a situation and be proactive in finding solutions.* A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%. We’re enhancing our pension from November 2025. If you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top it up by a further 13%* A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance* 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.**Don\’t miss out on this opportunity to grow with us. Apply today!****The legal bits**We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.**Equal Opportunity Employer:**We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexualorientationor gender identity.Our story started over 190 years ago, right here in the UK. We were originally founded as Scottish Equitable, but today we’re part of Aegon. We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation.As a purpose-led business, we\’re focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We\’re here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grand or humble their ambitions.Working at Aegon, you\’ll play an important part in helping achieve this. Read more about life at Aegon here – #J-18808-Ljbffr