With a career as a Mercer human capital consultant, you will be helping companies of all sizes and across all industries solve their greatest challenges by designing and implementing workforce strategies to help them grow within their markets. We help organizations define and implement an employee experience that will make the right talent want to join, stay, and deliver their best performance.

Mercer is seeking candidates for the following position, flexible for any Mercer office nationwide:

Senior Pension Strategy Consultant

What can you expect?

Advise on strategic asset allocation and dynamic glide path design for pension plans

Understand asset classes, risk and return tradeoffs, plan design, liability features, and plan sponsor constraints to develop investment strategies

Partner with Client Portfolio Directors to present results of asset-liability studies, glide path reviews, and portfolio structure reviews

Model pension liabilities and fixed income portfolios utilizing internal and external risk models to assess risk exposures, including plan-specific liability duration profile and credit spread risk

Understand pension plan liabilities, design features, and risk drivers that influence hedge portfolio development

Lead clients and deliver advice on investment strategy issues, risk management / reduction in relation to pension plans, ensuring clients receive high quality advice while incorporating Mercer’s intellectual capital

Be a subject matter expert in pension risk management and journey planning, including liability-driven investments and pension risk transfer

Define and implement long-term business strategy, direction and focus, engaging staff to deliver business results

Identify the need for change within the business and decisively bring essential, ambitious and accelerated change into existence and then sustain its benefits despite being confronted with resistance, barriers and blockages.

Attract, engage and advance only the best talent and champion a culture that people want to join and commit to.

Contribute strongly to meeting aggressive revenue growth targets.

Responsible for developing business with new and existing clients across all business lines and geographies, collaborating to leverage resources and expertise

Ensure all professionalism/compliance processes are understood and followed

What’s in it for you?

A company with a strong brand, with experience developing solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s toughest challenges 

The opportunity to partner with an experienced team to provide investment consulting to Mercer’s clients

A culture of internal mobility, diversity, inclusion, and collaboration

A company-wide emphasis on Corporate Social Responsibility – all colleagues receive 8 hours of paid time off for volunteering, with the option to join organized group activities

Competitive pay and a full benefits package, starting Day 1 (Medical, Dental, Vision, Short- and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance, Employee Stock Purchase program, and a generous paid time-off allowance); plus a 401k with a fixed company contribution AND a company match, after one year of service

What you need to have:

10 years’ experience in pension and/or investment strategy, with significant expertise in each

Strong presentation, project management and communication skills

High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

Knowledge of data analysis, project management, and presentation design

High-level attention to detail and an understanding of its application to the bigger picture

Ability to acclimate quickly to understand asset-liability risk management and business concepts and apply critical thinking to the issues which will arise during projects

What makes you stand out:

CFA designation and/or actuarial credentials are a strong positive

Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being. Mercer’s more than 20,000 employees are based in 43 countries and the firm operates in over 130 countries. Mercer is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with more than 85,000 colleagues and annual revenue of over $23 billion. Through its market-leading businesses including Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment. For more information, visit mercer.com. Follow Mercer on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan 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, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting TANA@mmc.com