Introduction
Discover a world of endless possibilities at Gallagher Benefit Services, where you'll have the power to shape the future of workplaces across industries. As a member of our team, you become the driving force behind positive change, helping clients build environments where employees thrive. Embrace the opportunity to impact lives, unlock potential, and create a legacy of remarkable transformation.
We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.
Overview
Are you ready to lead strategic conversations at the highest client levels and shape the future of employee benefits communication solutions?
The Principal is regarded by clients as an expert and trusted advisor. This role involves working with subject matter experts to provide guidance on strategic, conceptual, and executional projects across our entire Employee Benefits Communication proposition, ensuring the highest quality of solutions are developed and delivered for the portfolio of clients.
The Principal will lead the account team and be responsible for delivering a significant portion of client revenue. Additionally, this role serves as a trusted and senior member of the Client Services Team.
How You'll Make An Impact
Client Delivery:
- Drive long-term client planning and strategic solutions.
- Collaborate with Senior Consultants to deliver creative, commercially viable solutions.
- Ensure credible service and operational efficiency for client accounts.
- Stay ahead of market trends to identify new opportunities.
- Lead senior client relationships and support communication return on investment.
Team Development:
- Lead and inspire a team of Senior Consultants across HR, operations, and L&D.
- Provide strategic direction and support for team growth and career development.
- Implement talent and training plans to improve industry knowledge and capabilities.
Relationships:
- Build and maintain strong, trusted client partnerships.
- Act as a key contact for financial reporting and new business pitches.
- Foster effective internal and global relationships, fostering teamwork.
- Resolve conflicts and represent the business with integrity.
Administration/Financial:
- Govern and champion team processes, ensuring accountability.
- Accurately record time and lead project profitability.
- Drive revenue growth and lead forecasts and invoicing.
- Ensure proper resourcing and achieve utilisation targets.
Business Development:
- Develop opportunities for revenue growth with existing and new clients.
- Support new business targets and collaborate with the Sales Team.
- Lead pitches and contribute to the business's future evolution.
- Engage in Gallagher collaboration and cross-selling initiatives.
About You
- Strong industry knowledge and consultancy experience.
- Experience with senior stakeholders and accounts.
- Preferably experienced with global or US clients.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
- Understanding of internal communication and engagement.
- Strong commercial and negotiation skills.
- Service-oriented and adaptable to change.
- Detail-oriented and proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Strategic thinker and effective relationship builder.
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. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.
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
[email protected] . 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.