Pensions scheme Manager – Edinburgh (Hybrid)

Company:Mercer

Description:

Pensions scheme Manager – Edinburgh (Hybrid)

Mercer is looking for talented and ambitious team members with experience in consulting and scheme management. This is an opportunity to further your career and to join a great multi-disciplinary team which provides clients with leading edge advice across all disciplines such as DB funding, DC governance, investment, risk transfer and covenant. We are looking for individuals with excellent communication skills, adaptability, business acumen and a desire to be in front of clients, all underpinned by the required technical skills.

We will count on you to:

The role includes providing consulting advice (as lead consultant and relationship manager) to both trustees of pension schemes and sponsoring employers, including responsibility for the day-to-day management of clients, ensuring that client needs and objectives are understood and appropriate services are delivered to meet these. You will also support senior colleagues on more complex and challenging opportunities. The role also requires providing services on a commercial basis and helping to increase revenue and profitability

• Providing consulting services to trustee clients. Depending on the client you will either be leading the relationship or supporting senior colleagues

• Taking responsibility for the commercial and strategic relationship and management of clients within a portfolio

• Taking a central role in liaising with clients, other team members and other advisers.

• Where you are leading the relationship, you will be central to the delivery of all Mercer services to the client

• Attending trustee meetings, overseeing meeting pack preparation, production of minutes and monitoring actions

• Setting, agreeing and monitoring budgets

• Supporting the development of more junior colleagues

What you need to have:

• Experience in consulting and scheme management

• Proven ability to build relationships with colleagues and clients.

• A good understanding of current pension issues and how these impact clients.

• A strong understanding of a range of ways in which UK pension schemes operate.

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Strong technical pensions knowledge and knowledge of current regulatory regime.

Why Join Our Team:

We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders

We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities

Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being

Mercer is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about Mercer, visit mercer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at [email protected].

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.