Account Director - Global Benefits Management

Account Director - Global Benefits Management

2026-09-27T00:00:00

The Borough

Greater London

GB

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2026-12-30T07:00:42.667

Job ID: R_355052

Company: Marsh McLennan

Location: Tower Place West, Tower Place, London, EC3R 5BU, United Kingdom

Job Type: Regular

Category: Consulting

Industry: Real Estate

Salary: 81316

Posted Date: 2026-09-25

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Director - Global Benefits Management - London or Bristol

Mercer is seeking a Global Benefits Management (GBM) Account Director who will be responsible for managing the GBM relationship with our largest strategic and most complex accounts outbound from UK/ Europe. You will focus on client retention and satisfaction, bringing new ideas, innovative thinking and regular points of view in the GBM arena to our clients as well as ensuring we are operationally effective.

We will count on you to:

• The Account Director will be a point of escalation for any GBM account issues, lead and scope global review meetings and take the lead on any rebid situations. Where applicable you will also ensure alignment and oversight of the delivery of our technology solution, Darwin. This individual will also support sales as a technical expert and contribute to the design and delivery of our strategic content in annual review meetings/ strategy sessions relating to cost optimization and benefit design in the wider client portfolio, including mentoring and upskilling the wider team members.


• Manage the overall GBM client relationship with our largest most strategic complex accounts


• Work with the GBM client team to ensure client satisfaction, setting clear direction on how the team will meet client expectations


• Ensure client health is managed effectively, there is strong internal and external stakeholder management with a focus on avoiding or securing re-bids


• Work with the GBM Sales team to drive pipeline population and demonstrate the added value we provide relating to cost management and benefit design


• Deliver and evolve our thought leadership and insights that can be integrated into the way we work and at annual review meetings, creating templates and supporting wider account
  meetings to mentor and coach


• Support in the delivery of training to the GBM Local Network on new initiatives to ensure global and local are aligned


• Support GBM Local, GBM Account Managers training as required

What you need to have:

• Proven experience and knowledge of the Global Benefits environment


• Extensive experience of building and sustaining multinational client relationships


• Ability to connect and foster trusted relationships internally and externally


• Significant delivery of Consulting and/or Broking expertise


• Strong project management skills


• Ability to inspire and develop strategic insights


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

What makes you stand out:

• Collaborative way of working and good communicator


• Excellent teamwork and experience working with virtual and global team members


• A positive and energetic attitude, inspiring other team members


• A commercial acumen together with strong negotiation skills

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.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is 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, visit marsh.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 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.

Skills: global benefits management, client relationship management, consulting, project management, stakeholder management, cost optimization, benefit design, mentoring, training delivery, negotiation, virtual team collaboration, commercial acumen, strategic insight development, template creation, annual review facilitation

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individual will also support sales as a technical expert and contribute to the design and delivery of our strategic content in annual review meetings/ strategy sessions relating to cost optimization and benefit design in the wider client portfolio, including mentoring and upskilling the wider team members.Manage the overall GBM client relationship with our largest most strategic complex accountsWork with the GBM client team to ensure client satisfaction, setting clear direction on how the team will meet client expectationsEnsure client health is managed effectively, there is strong internal and external stakeholder management with a focus on avoiding or securing re-bidsWork with the GBM Sales team to drive pipeline population and demonstrate the added value we provide relating to cost management and benefit designDeliver and evolve our thought leadership and insights that can be integrated into the way we work and at annual review meetings, creating templates and supporting wider account
meetings to mentor and coachSupport in the delivery of training to the GBM Local Network on new initiatives to ensure global and local are alignedSupport GBM Local, GBM Account Managers training as requiredWhat you need to have:Proven experience and knowledge of the Global Benefits environmentExtensive experience of building and sustaining multinational client relationshipsAbility to connect and foster trusted relationships internally and externallySignificant delivery of Consulting and/or Broking expertiseStrong project management skillsAbility to inspire and develop strategic insightsExcellent verbal and written communication skills in EnglishWhat makes you stand out:Collaborative way of working and good communicatorExcellent teamwork and experience working with virtual and global team membersA positive and energetic attitude, inspiring other team membersA commercial acumen together with strong negotiation skillsWhy 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. Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is 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, visit marsh.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 ##### 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.Skillsglobal benefits managementclient relationship managementconsultingproject managementstakeholder managementcost optimizationbenefit designmentoringtraining deliverynegotiationvirtual team collaborationcommercial acumenstrategic insight developmenttemplate creationannual review facilitation