Executive Actuarial Strategy Lead

Introduction

At Gallagher Benefit Services, you're a trusted partner to organizations navigating some of their most important people decisions.

We help clients build better workplaces, where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to thrive. Whether it's shaping benefit strategies, designing wellbeing programs, or advising on workforce challenges, the work you do here creates meaningful change for businesses and the people who power them.

We're a community of bold explorers, trusted experts, and compassionate partners; working side by side to solve problems, and shape the future of work. Here, curiosity is encouraged, collaboration is second nature, and your ideas have room to grow.

If you're looking for a place where your contribution matters and where you can help build a better world of work, think of Gallagher.

How you'll make an impact

Actuarial Consulting provides a variety of high-quality services to clients through structured engagements requiring actuarial expertise. These services may include:

• Preparation and interpretation of risk data, design of insurance or retirement plans, calculation of plan premiums, determining cash reserves and premium rates necessary to ensure sufficient funds for benefits payment and profitability.
• Primarily focused on leading and managing most complex projects counseling management and advises on retirement, benefit, or underwriting projects that require actuarial or mathematical techniques to determine appropriate courses of action.
• Recognized as most senior individual contributor.
• Participates in the rate‑making, reserving, and risk evaluation functions; Oversees and offers expertise in actuarial projects and plan design; Serves as a thought leader, in relevant technical area; Manages and conducts research projects and communicates findings to others; Communicates project findings and delivers complex reports to clients created by junior team members; Provides guidance to actuarial staff by overseeing preparation and analyzing statistical reports of data.
• Acts as subject matter expert and as an actuarial liaison to other departments.
• Leads actuarial projects (high complexity); Frequently mentors others May also develop and expand client relationships (high complexity), deliver advice and identifying new business opportunities (including cross‑sell).
• Responsible for making significant recommendations or implementing solutions to enhance client satisfaction and portfolio growth using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation. Conducts extensive investigation to understand root cause of problems.
• Problems span a wide range of difficult and unique issues.
• Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership.
• Leads a team on larger, highly complex client projects/ engagements.
• Leads large client projects/initiatives.

About You

Required:

• Bachelor's degree; 8 years related experience.
• Knowledge in relevant regulations where appropriate to role (e.g., state and federal benefits regulations, underwriting, or benefit products).

Desired:

• Professional accreditation as Associate, Society of Actuaries (ASA) and/or Fellow, Society of Actuaries (FSA), or Fellow of the IFoA (FIA or equivalent).

Work Traits:

• Demonstrates effective Executive presence; Account planning skills; Client management skills; Project management skills; Communication skills; Analytical skills; Attention to detail; Financial acumen; Business acumen.

Compensation and benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you'll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax‑advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program - elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it's embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees' diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non‑conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as "protected characteristics") by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer‑employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.