Senior Consultant

LGBT Great; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in Greater London is looking for a Senior Consultant to manage a portfolio of clients, focusing on risk benefits advice. This role involves building client relationships, managing tenders, and providing expert advice on insurance options. Ideal candidates will have a relevant degree, experience in the risk benefits industry, and excellent communication skills. The firm offers an attractive benefits package including hybrid working and professional study support.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Professional study support

Access to internal networks

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

Discounted gym memberships

Competitive pension scheme

Discretionary bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in the risk benefits industry at a senior level.
• Experience of pitching for and winning new business.
• Strong up-to-date technical knowledge of cover options.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a consultant for a portfolio of clients across multiple sectors.
• Design and run market tenders and renewals.
• Advise clients and present market options at meetings.
• Manage client issues and coordinate with insurers.
• Market services to prospects and new business development.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

Commercial acumen

Decision-making skills

Education

Degree and professional qualification (e.g., CII)

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Overview

Senior Consultant

LCP is an award-winning consultancy providing advice on pensions, investments, insurance, energy, health analytics and employee benefits.

What our team do

The Risk Benefits Consulting (RBC) practice is a long established and successful department, based in London.

We provide advice to both corporate clients and trustees on a range of health and well-being employee benefits. We manage the design, broking and administration of;

• life assurance
• income protection
• critical illness insurance
• private medical insurance and health cash plans
• dental insurance
• trustee indemnity insurance and much more

We design, price and place insurance with a range of insurers for both new and existing arrangements.

What will you be doing?

As a Senior Consultant, you will serve as a consultant for a portfolio of clients across multiple sectors building strong client and insurer relationships.

In this role, you will typically:

• Design and run market tenders and renewals: data capture, insurer briefings, and negotiation terms of insurance
• Advise clients and present to them their particular market options, attending meetings where necessary
• Manage client issues (claims escalations, underwriting queries, eligibility disputes) to resolution, coordinating with insurers
• Market services to prospects and new business development

Qualifications and experience

• Preferably degree educated and holding a professional qualification (e.g. CII)
• Proven experience in the risk benefits industry at a senior level
• Preferably experience of pitching for and winning new business
• Ideally experience of healthcare (but not essential)

Technical knowledge

• Strong up-to-date technical knowledge of cover options and difference between insurers options, applicable taxation and legislation, state benefits interaction, and trends in market and underwriting approaches
• Awareness of future regulatory developments, with the ability to anticipate their impact on clients and provide proactive advice and guidance
• Competence in Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Word, Powerpoint and Excel, with the ability to quickly learn new software and adapt to changing technology and AI advances as required

Professional and interpersonal skills

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate and present confidently
• Strong stakeholder management, able to build lasting client relationships
• Effective project management, able to manage priorities to time and budget
• High level of commercial acumen, recognising opportunities and managing budgets
• Strong decision-making skills, balancing technical requirements with practical outcomes

Personal attributes and approach

• Professional in conduct, acting as a senior ambassador for LCP
• Flexible and adaptable, able to respond to changing client and business need
• Organised and proactive, with the ability to manage competing demands effectively
• Self-motivated, with the initiative to drive progress

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

• Hybrid working (varies by role and department)
• professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

• Life assurance, income protection, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy &sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility.