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Senior DC Investment Consultant

Salary Highly Competitive
Location London
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Our Defined Contribution Consulting (DCC) Business Unit works with all types of DC Pension schemes to provide advice on investment strategy, portfolio construction and implementation, as well as working with product providers and retail advisors to deliver the latest investment proposition innovation.

This offering is a key component of our consulting services and helps firmly establish us as a UK market leader in this area. Our diverse client base for these services spans both corporate and trustee bodies across a wide variety of business and industry sectors, as well as local government pension schemes and other public sector clients.

We have an exciting opportunity to join this Business Unit as a Senior DC Investment Consultant, and we are excited to welcome applications for this.


What will your role look like?
As a Senior DC Investment Consultant you will be a key member of our DC Business Unit. You’ll play a lead role in the provision of a high-quality investment consultancy service to our variety of trustee and corporate clients, and will be passionate about using innovation to help our teams to improve the investment propositions and strategies that we provide.

Drawing on your understanding of the DC Market you will have significant involvement in winning new business and introducing our firm to prospective clients (including preparing and leading pitch teams, contributing to new ideas, tender completions, and pitch presentations). You’ll also maintain active relationships with and provide advice to our existing portfolio of clients – further developing these accounts by introducing services from across our firm (not just the DCC Investment offering) where appropriate.

This role comes with visibility across the firm and the wider DC pensions and investment marketplace. You will be enthusiastic about contributing new ideas on our services and approaches to help enhance the longer-term future of our client offering. As a role model for colleagues, you will develop strong working relationships with those within your Business Unit and beyond to help lead our client teams across practices.

To enjoy and succeed in this role, you will have:

  • Relevant experience of working within the Pensions Consultancy industry, with experience and knowledge of the market for DC schemes in the UK;
  • Awareness of the investment options used by DC arrangements, with an understanding/experience of providing strategic advice in relation to portfolio construction, glidepath development, RI/ESG, private markets and decumulation strategies;
  • Experience of building long-term relationships with and providing high-quality investment advice to clients
  • Strong commercial awareness of the pensions and employee benefits market, and an enthusiasm for keeping up to date with topical matters arising within this;
  • Exceptional communication skills, demonstrated through your ability to consult and influence successfully with stakeholders;
  • A flexible, innovative approach to developing solutions for our clients and be enthused by the opportunity to solve complex problems for them;
  • The ability to work well as part of a team, and lead by example with a motivational, hands-on approach, including supporting with the coaching and development of junior colleagues within your Business Unit; 
  • The ability to work with large sets of detailed data and other forms of information;
  • Strong attention to detail, with excellent organisational skills and the ability to work quickly and accurately;
  • The flexibility to travel to client and other Hymans Robertson offices when required.

We expect those that are interested in this role to be FFA/FIA or CFA qualified (or be close to achieving this), preferably being authorised to give investment advice (either following one of these qualification paths or having an alternative qualification/experience).

A more detailed list of requirements for this position is available within the role profile – which is available on request.
 
In addition to a competitive salary and access to our profit share scheme, we offer:

  • A flexible selection of employee benefits, so you can choose a package that best matches your lifestyle and needs.
  • A collaborative and supportive work environment where your thinking and ideas are encouraged.
  • On site mental health and wellbeing support
  • 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.


Our preference would be for this role to be based in our London office. We offer 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.

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 we 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 and counting, we’re one of the leading consultancies in our field and are proud to be recognised by numerous industry awards. 

We’re committed to developing our people and encourage everyone to carve out their own career path. We’ve many colleagues who started out in one team in the business and have ended up somewhere completely different, having had the chance to develop new skills and explore new passions.   

We are continually working to improve our inclusive culture and employ diverse talent. We therefore welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, which includes but isn’t limited to: age, disability, ethnic heritage, gender, marital or civil partnership status, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.

Our hybrid working model offers the best of both worlds – home working as well as a fun, collaborative office environment - meaning flexible working patterns to accommodate individual needs. Find out more about our careers here.

If you need any assistance in relation to a personal requirement, medical condition or neurological difference during our selection process then please let us know. 

Together, we can make this the best job you’ll ever have. 

Our culture

We live and breathe our four values – friendly, confident, partnering and straightforward – and genuinely care about out people, clients, community and the environment.

Job satisfaction

Every employee can genuinely make a difference and contribute towards achieving our purpose – together, building better futures. Whether that’s helping our clients build more secure financial futures, using your 3 days volunteering or helping us reduce our carbon footprint.

Reward and wellbeing

We offer competitive salaries, a share of company profits and an award-winning benefits package. We also take your mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing seriously, both in and outside of work.

Flexible working

We trust our people to work in a pattern that suits their circumstances with a healthy balance of home and office working.

Latest technology

We use the most up-to-date technology and software to match our ground-breaking business solutions that make life easier for us and our clients.

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