Investment Consultant, Defined Contribution - Director

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. We’re a community of bold explorers, trusted experts, and compassionate partners; working side by side to solve problems, and shape the future of work. Here, curiosity is encouraged, collaboration is second nature, and your ideas have room to grow. If you’re looking for a place where your contribution matters and where you can help build a better world of work; think of Gallagher.

Enjoy having autonomy in your work and are keen to develop your DC consulting career in a friendly, flexible environment with the security of a growing firm that is recognised as one the UK’s leading independent pension and investment consultancies?

In this senior DC consulting role at Redington, you will have overall responsibility for some of our largest DC clients, which include master trusts, collective DC, single-employer trusts, sponsors, IGCs and pension providers. You will be supported by specialists from our asset-liability, manager research and responsible investment teams.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to be part of the leadership team within Redington’s DC practice, where you’ll be responsible for:

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• Shaping the firm’s DC strategy
  
• Industry leading research
  
• The continued enhancement of technology to support our work
  
• Marketing, public relations and business development
  

This role is for you if you are:

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• An investment professional with between 8-15 years of experience working with DC pensions clients
  
• Able to have an eye for detail and strong technical knowledge, balanced with a view of the bigger strategic picture
  
• Keen to help others develop and grow in industry and practical knowledge
  
• Effective at building trusted client relationships
  

It would be great if you also have:

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• CFA or FIA qualifications, although not a prerequisite
  
• Experience co/leading clients
  
• Experience of managing junior colleagues and keen to grow your people skills
  

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:

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• 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:

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• 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…
  

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.

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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 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.