Lead Specialist - Actuarial

Job Title: Lead Specialist

Location: Gurugram

Team: GSD Health Actuarial

About The Role

Mercer’s GSD Health Actuarial team is seeking an Assistant Manager to support client engagements focused on U.S. employers’ healthcare benefits strategy and financials. This is a hands-on role working with U.S. consulting & Actuarial teams to deliver high-quality analysis, client reports and materials. The successful candidate will be an individual contributor who is developing into a technical expert – guiding junior analysts, leading technical learning sessions, occasionally taking part in client meetings, and partnering with senior colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to client deliverables including underwriting and financial projections, carrier selection analysis, plan design changes and optimization, and employee contribution setting.
• Estimate incurred but not paid (IBNP) claims and support reserving analyses.
• Analyze and evaluate well-being initiatives and other programs for cost and outcome impacts.
• Build and maintain relationships with U.S. consulting teams, internal subject-matter experts, and relevant stakeholders.
• Support project management activities: scope tasks, manage deadlines, prioritize competing workstreams, and ensure timely delivery of accurate outputs.
• Prepare clear, client-ready materials (models, slide decks, and reports) and communicate technical findings to non-technical audiences.
• Provide guidance or direction to junior analysts and contribute to team knowledge sharing and training (including training your replacement, when required).
• Participate in occasional client-facing activities and partner with senior staff on presentations and financial client contacts.
  
  

Experience & Skills

• Minimum 6 years of actuarial experience.
• Practical knowledge of US health & benefits (H&B) domain preferred—experience with employer-sponsored healthcare in the U.S. is an advantage.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and interpretation skills with attention to numerical accuracy.
• Fluent written and spoken English; ability to present technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks in a demanding environment and adapt to rapidly changing priorities.
• Solid project management skills and ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, preparing PowerPoint deliverables and client reports.
• Self-starter with strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative mindset.
  
  

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Prior actuarial consulting experience in healthcare or experience independently managing multiple complex projects.
• Experience serving as a financial client contact or leading client presentations.
• Familiarity with actuarial reserving (IBNP), underwriting analytics, or carrier selection frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience translating technical analysis into practical client recommendations.
  
  

Qualifications & Certifications

• Any graduate degree – preferably in Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Economics, Finance, or another quantitatively rigorous discipline.
• Preferably 3–4 actuarial exams cleared, including CS and CM (or equivalent progress toward actuarial qualification).
  
  

Why join our team

We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders. We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have an impact for colleagues, clients and communities. Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Mercer is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about Mercer, visit mercer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh 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, caste, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.

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