Placement Manager

About the Role

Mercer Marsh Benefits is hiring a Placement Manager for its Singapore office. This position sits within a team focused on helping clients improve health, wealth, and career outcomes by supporting insurance placement work, market analysis, and client service.

The organization describes itself as a global leader in HR consulting and employee benefits, with a strong emphasis on learning, inclusion, development, and a people-first culture. The role is suited to someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and wants to contribute to meaningful client outcomes.

What You Will Do

• Support senior placement team members by analyzing client insurance programs and helping improve service delivery.
• Build a solid understanding of insurance markets to better support client needs.
• Prepare parts of proposals that help win new business and additional opportunities.
• Manage insurer relationships and track key performance indicators to help ensure delivery standards are met.
• Assist senior colleagues in negotiations with insurance carriers by gathering and comparing submissions, under close guidance.
• Carry out remarketing exercises and help recommend the most suitable solutions for clients.
• Contribute to projects aimed at increasing revenue, improving efficiency, and strengthening work processes.

What You Need

• Strong interest in employee benefits and related advisory work.
• Must have cleared all 6 papers required for licensing before applying for the role.
• MAS qualification is mandatory for this position.
• Good analytical reasoning and problem-solving capability.
• Clear written and spoken communication skills.
• Ability to manage priorities, handle several tasks at once, and meet tight deadlines while working with a team.
• Comfort with data cleaning, analysis, and maintaining accurate records.

Preferred Strengths

• Curiosity and a willingness to keep learning new skills and knowledge.
• High motivation with a careful, detail-oriented approach.
• Ability to adapt in complex, fast-moving environments.
• Strong relationship-building skills and effective communication with teammates.
• Interest in using data to tell a clear story.
• Previous exposure to health and benefits consulting or client management would be an advantage.

Why Join Mercer

• Access to professional development, meaningful work, and supportive leadership.
• A diverse and inclusive culture where collaboration and innovation are encouraged.
• Career growth opportunities supported by the scale of the wider organization.
• Benefits and rewards designed to support your wellbeing.
• Great package and recognition programs.
• An energetic and flexible work environment with supportive colleagues.

About the Company

Mercer is part of Marsh, a global organization working across risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting. The wider group serves clients in 130 countries and has annual revenue of more than $27 billion, supported by over 95,000 colleagues worldwide.

Diversity and Inclusion

The company states a commitment to building a diverse, inclusive, and flexible workplace, and welcomes people from many backgrounds and identities. Its approach is centered on attracting and retaining strong talent while respecting differences in age, background, disability, ethnicity, family responsibilities, gender identity or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, skin color, and other protected characteristics.

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