Senior Risk Benefits Consultant
Full time
Central London

Due to our growing success, an exciting in-house opportunity has arisen at Thomsons Online Benefits for a talented, ambitious Senior Risk Benefits Consultant who has experience in delivering consulting on Group Risk strategy to a range of high profile clients and is now looking for a big step up in pace, profile and responsibility.

As a minimum, you will have significant hands on experience to date in all areas of group risk and be regarded by peers and clients as a highly capable and knowledgeable group risk and group PMI consultant.

You should be educated to degree level and have completed CF exams 1 - 5 or equivalent. 

Reporting to the Head of Benefit Consulting, you will lead our drive into designing exciting and innovative Health and Wellbeing strategies (rather than just product placement) as part of our overall approach to delivering Intelligent Reward solutions to clients.  You will be very able to deliver business specific corporate advice and recommendations on insured and self insured products and additional services to ensure the benefits offered matches the companies stated reward objectives. This will include the ability to cost fees or work with commission generating products.

You will bring your own ideas to the table and help shape our future Health and Wellbeing journey, this will include our ‘house view' in a number of key areas and you will play a key role in communicating that internally and to the market.

You will also recommend benefit changes in response to changes in the competitive or legislative landscape. This includes obtaining terms and preparing recommendations for new clients and working with the client's/prospects Account Team to identify and deliver new risk benefits opportunities.

You will have the proven ability to work across a diverse range of clients, with a demonstrable track record of satisfied clients in the delivery of GLA, GIP, CIC, PMI, Dental, Personal Accident, Travel, Health screening, EAP & Absence Management consulting to clients.

You will take responsibility for our relationships with key benefit providers in relation to service, products and rates.

You will typically be working in cross-functional teams of 4 delivering projects to our clients that produce revenue from £20,000 - £250,000. Our clients are typically companies from all industry sectors ranging from 100-5000 employees.

Finally, you will provide personal development support and coaching to junior members of the risk benefits team. 
The successful candidate will be highly organised, have a hands on approach to project delivery, have excellent communication skills and be target and delivery focused. He/she will be a confident business presenter and have the ability to write to clients in a clear and error free manner with meticulous attention to detail is a fundamental requirement.

About Thomsons Online Benefits

Thomsons Online Benefits offer a unique approach to employee benefits. Since our inception in 2000 our vision has been to offer products and services which not only transform employees appreciation and understanding of their employee benefits but also removes the administration and communication headaches which organisations suffer as a result of running such schemes normally.
We are the only provider in the market to offer a holistic approach incorporating all the services and competencies required to develop, deliver and manage an employee benefits strategy. 
Our services include:

• Consulting;
• Regulated benefit advice;
• Benefit broking;
• Benefit design;
• Implementation and project management
• Technology;
• Employee communication and branding;
• Benefit administration.

Our team of 70 work together in one location to ensure that all of services are co-ordinated.

We are a vibrant, fast moving and entrepreneurial team and we offer excellent career development opportunities for experienced professionals and graduates to work with similarly ambitious and stimulating clients in all sectors and in all parts of the world.

We always set ourselves high standards and have won 12 awards over the last 4 years demonstrating our commitment to providing a quality service founded on innovation.

Our successful and profitable growth has meant that we appeared at No:32 in the 2006 Sunday Times Tech Track 100  - this lists the fastest growing technology businesses in the UK.