Mercer Marsh Benefits Advisory Leader, Asia

at  Mercer

Mercer Marsh Benefits (MMB) have an exciting new role available for a suitably qualified senior executive to bring their background, expertise, and insights to the MMB Advisory Leader role to build and grow this function for the organization in Asia. The organization welcomes applications from across the region to be included for consideration for this role.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?

Mercer Marsh Benefits (MMB) is a combination of Mercer and Marsh local offices round the world, as well as country correspondents who have been selected based on specific criteria. Our benefits professionals, located in 135 countries and servicing clients in more than 150 countries, are deeply knowledgeable about their local markets. Through our locally established businesses, we have a unique common platform which allows us to serve clients with global consistency and locally unique solutions.
MMB Advisory is a developing part of the Mercer Marsh Benefits organization and is currently well established as a practice in other regions. MMB Advisory provides clients with expertise, insights, and advice to optimize health and benefit programs, so they are valued, relevant and affordable. We are currently seeking suitably qualified and experienced candidates to establish, build and lead the MMB Advisory organization for the Asia region. Reporting to the MMB Asia Leader, with dotted line reporting to the Global MMB Advisory Leader as well as the Global MMB Multinational Advisory Leader, this role leads, and is accountable for, the sustainable growth and ongoing innovation of consulting capabilities across the Asia region. As a member of the MMB Asia Executive Leadership Team, this role is critical in driving MMB Asia’s future growth and success.
The key objective of this role is to lead the development of consulting solutions, capabilities and intellectual capital at the country level including thought leadership across MMB Asia, fostering a forward-looking, positive and profitability focused culture by using an issue led approach to our consulting and broader propositions. This role will be responsible for establishing MMB Advisory for scale by driving the development, enablement, sale and delivery of health and benefits focused advisory solutions across all domestic market segments and partnering with the Multinational Advisory team in respect to driving growth in the Multinational client base. The MMB Advisory leader will play a key role in shaping the advisory strategy for the region, assessing how to fill capability gaps and supporting the Multinational Advisory team in respect to the regional application of global initiatives. This will include a focus on standardization, modernizing MMB Asia’s data analytics, better alignment of teams, enhancement of the commercial model and reporting on the value of MMB Advisory to the firm overall.
The role requires a senior executive with strong, visible and reputable leadership in the marketplace with the ability to establish, launch and grow a new business, along with commercial acumen, knowledge and experience in the Employee Health & Benefit space, preferably in the Asia region, a deep understanding of the sector and outstanding stakeholder management.

Please refer the Job description for details