Director - Actuarial & Consulting

We’re growing and want you to be a part of our journey.

We are looking for an experienced professional to help grow our actuarial & consulting business and to support our wider national sales efforts.

• Drive forward new business activities, build relationships with potential clients, produce tender submissions and lead pitches. Use an existing relationship network with independent trustees and other key stakeholders to develop new opportunities.
• Lead client relationships – co‑ordinating multiple Isio service lines, developing new opportunities with existing clients, managing commercial and personal relationships with clients. The ability and experience to play a lead consulting role on a wide range of clients in terms of size and complexity, drive forward strategic thinking and provide high quality client service.
• Support local Office Heads with regards to culture and cross‑service line sales activity
• Support Isio with the ambitious growth plans for the actuarial and consulting business – feed into the strategic plans for the growth of the business and support with how Isio articulates its growth message to the market, to attract clients and new talent
• Be willing to raise new ideas internally and challenge thinking to ensure our work is robust and joined‑up across multiple specialist teams.
• Support the development of our team members through coaching and mentoring, including performance management responsibilities.

• A track record of leading a range of clients (Scheme Actuary with a current practising certificate welcomed but not essential)
• Experience of journey planning advice – setting long term targets, aligning funding and investment strategies, de‑risking activity, liability management exercises and settlement/insurance transactions.
• Ideally, but not essential, experience of working on larger schemes (>£1bn) perhaps as a number 2 or supporting consultant if not the lead.
• Extensive previous experience of relevant consulting and relationship management.
• Appetite to drive forward innovative thinking on strategy development.
• Proven network of relationships to develop business.
• Business development experience and a commercial mindset.
• Extensive leadership skills – leading or being part of a leadership team for a group of people covering their learning & development and building a supportive and inclusive culture.
• The ability and willingness to take on a high level of responsibility and work effectively in a team.
• Excellent communication skills.

• Power in Partnership
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  We work in partnership with our clients & each other – building open and trusted relationships. Working together allows us to deliver the best for our clients.
• Future Focus
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  We want to push our industry forward by solving problems in better ways that benefit both our clients & society.
• Strength in Difference
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  We work with diverse perspectives to find better solutions. Working with differences makes us stronger.
• People First
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  We recognise that pensions is a people business. People are the source of Isio’s expertise and it is people’s lives that we affect through our advice.

Isio is a people business, and we’re committed to helping our great colleagues gain a wide variety of experience, significant development opportunities and progression through the business
. The variety of work that’ll be available to you will enable you to do this.

On top, we also offer:

• A competitive remuneration package
  , including a bonus scheme.
• A defined contribution pension scheme
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• Life insurance
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• Healthcare benefits
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• Income protection benefits
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• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) as standard with the option to purchase additional days of holiday. As well as two additional ‘Company’ days – a celebration day for your birthday and an extra day over Christmas.
• Corporate Social Responsibility allowance
• Flexible working opportunities.
• A flexible benefits package.
• Internal development programmes including (technical and non‑technical) training support and mentor programmes.
• Where required study support including study days, materials and exam entry…