Senior Longevity Consultant

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to take on a senior role within our award‑winning Insurance and Financial Services practice, supporting the leadership team and managing a variety of assignments. The role will be primarily focused on supporting clients in understanding, quantifying and managing longevity risk.

• Providing high quality longevity support to our insurance and reinsurance clients both in the UK and globally, either on a consulting basis or potentially via secondment to the client, delivering projects on time and within budget
• Support longevity proposition development and identify further consultancy opportunities with new and existing clients
• Developing and maintaining a good relationship with nominated clients and prospects, building a strong network of contacts in the life insurance industry
• Collaborating across the business, particularly with our risk transfer team and longevity specialists in Club Vita, to deliver on cross‑practice projects
• Helping to promote our insurance offerings to a wider audience, which includes conference speaking and writing articles

• Experience in longevity risk, either ‘in‑house’ at an insurer or reinsurer, or in consulting
• Confident project lead, with appreciation for the importance of audit trail and controls
• Experience of planning projects and a track record of delivering work on schedule and within budget
• Excellent consulting skills
• Flexible in approach and comfortable with working in a changing environment
• Proven ability to manage multiple and sometimes conflicting demands
• Strong personal values, including a commitment to professional and ethical behaviour
• Ability to work well in a team, quickly establishing rapport and connections with new colleagues
• Ability to develop a strong network of contacts in the life insurance industry
• Ability to both generate proposition ideas and successfully bring solutions to the current client base
• Ability to mentor and coach junior staff
• Willingness and ability to travel where necessary

• Strategic business outlook and knowledge of risks facing the life insurance industry, acquired in an ‘in‑house’ or consultancy role
• Knowledge of the requirements of Solvency II
• Sound grounding in actuarial techniques and strong IT skills
• Dependent on experience, candidates are likely to be qualified UK actuaries with proven, relevant post‑qualification experience, or hold another professional or quantitative risk qualification
• Proven commitment to continuous professional development

• A flexible selection of employee benefits, so you can choose a package that best matches your lifestyle and needs
• A collaborative and encouraging work environment where your thinking and ideas are encouraged
• On‑site mental health and wellbeing assistance
• A commitment to helping you develop both personally and professionally, with mentoring opportunities and access to our award‑winning learning portal, Aspire
• Regular social activities, in addition to three days paid volunteering leave each year and a day’s leave to celebrate your birthday
• Hybrid working so you can enjoy the positive wellbeing of working from home as well as the benefits of meeting colleagues in our sociable, modern office environments – with the expectation of two ‘in‑office’ days per week
• A flexible working window, allowing colleagues the freedom to work flexibly between the hours of 7 am and 7 pm

Together, we’ve been building better futures for over 100 years. For our people, our clients and their people, our communities and the environment. We thrive on tackling complex problems and believe those problems are best solved by diverse teams – diverse in skills, approaches and backgrounds. Our independence lets our people be themselves and think freely, while working in a collaborative, supportive environment.

We love innovative, independent thinking and want everyone to share their ideas.

Working alongside employers, trustees and financial services institutions, we offer pensions, investments, benefits and risk consulting services, as well as data and technology solutions. With over 1000 employees…