Unlock the full potential of your employee benefits strategy
At Mercer Marsh Benefits, we craft employee benefits strategies that drive tangible, measurable outcomes. By leveraging data-driven benchmarking, employee and market insights, and comprehensive employee benefits plan reviews, we optimise your benefits investment to help enhance job satisfaction and employee health, elevate your employer brand, and boost organisational performance.
How we can help
Benefit from data-driven, tailored solutions to help attract top talent, retain key employees, and maximise productivity.
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Employee benefits review
Assess cost, utilisation, compliance, and impact across:
✓ Health plans
✓ Pensions
✓ Voluntary and flexible benefits.
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Employee benefits benchmarking
Compare your package to industry standards and peers using objective market data to:
✓ Identify gaps in your benefits
✓ Highlight valuable opportunities
✓ Pinpoint quick wins.
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Flex consulting
Enjoy end-to-end management of non‑insured flexible benefits through:
✓ Securing competitive renewal terms
✓ Provider reviews and onboarding
✓ Optimised web content and enrolment journeys.
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Employee listening
Capture feedback on your benefits and wellbeing initiatives with:
✓ Surveys
✓ Focus groups
✓ Online quizzes.
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Market insights
Learn the latest data trends and expert commentary on emerging UK benefits, including:
✓ Car salary sacrifice
✓ Lifestage health (fertility, menopause, men’s health)
✓ Family care (eldercare and childcare).
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Salary sacrifice
Take advantage of the benefits of salary sacrifice schemes or optimise existing schemes.
✓ Cycle to work
✓ Car and electric vehicles
✓ Pensions and voluntary benefits.
Outcomes you can expect
- A competitive, tailored and effective employee benefits strategy that helps supports attraction and retention.
- Clear business case for benefits changes and costs saved from vendor and car lease provider reviews.
- Improved employee engagement potential through targeted benefits informed by employee listening.
- Increased utilisation opportunities for flexible benefits and wellbeing programmes.
- Governance and reporting to support ongoing alignment of benefits with your business strategy.
- Customised benefits aligned with your unique and diverse workforce demographics as well as business objectives.
- Strategies to help reduce business costs, and increase employee satisfaction.
- Ongoing measurement and support to ensure continuous improvement.
Car Salary Sacrifice Provider Report
Unlock insights into the current trends shaping UK car salary sacrifice scheme design.
Why do you need benefits strategy support?
Today’s modern workforce expects more than basic perks. A total rewards strategy must align with your Employee Value Proposition (EVP), support employee wellbeing, and control costs. Our employee benefits consultancy blends market benchmarking, employee feedback, and vendor reviews so you get a tailored, employee benefits package that gives you competitive advantage, supports performance and reduces financial leakage.
How we work with you
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Discovery & benchmarking:We start with a benefits benchmarking UK exercise and a data audit to understand current spend and market positioning.
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Employee listening:We run confidential employee engagement and benefits feedback surveys to uncover what matters most.
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Design & vendor review:We redesign benefits where needed and complete benefits review—including car lease provider review—to help reduce cost, optimise existing schemes, and increase uptake.
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Implementation & communications:We support rollout, communications, and manager training to maximise adoption.
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Measurement & governance:Ongoing measurement of utilisation, return on investment (ROI), and employee sentiment to refine your benefits strategy.
Speak to our friendly team
Simply tell us a bit more about yourself and a member of the team will be in touch.
FAQs
A strong employee benefits strategy defines which benefits you offer and why. It aligns total rewards with your business goals, company culture and Employee Value Proposition. It considers the needs of your workforce and employee expectations to attract, retain talent, and engage staff while ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
Benefits benchmarking uses market data to compare pay, pensions, health, flexible benefits and uptake against peers. This helps HR teams make informed decisions about your benefits offerings, ensuring they meet the diverse needs and different demographics of your workforce. It also highlights gaps in core and retirement benefits, as well as helping you spot risks and quick wins.
A benefits review audits cost, utilisation, vendor contracts, compliance and communications to create a prioritised plan for optimisation and savings. It also identifies opportunities to streamline administration. The review ensures your benefits package includes key elements like income protection and tax-deductible options, while providing access and support to help employees manage their health and wellbeing effectively.
Employee listening uses pulse surveys, focus groups, and interviews to capture what employees value and the needs of your workforce. This feedback helps answer questions about benefits offerings and reveals growing interest in areas like mental health support, long term wellbeing, and flexible working arrangements. Using these insights, employers can design benefits that truly meet employee expectations and help increase uptake.
We set key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurable goals up front (uptake, cost per employee, retention). We also track utilisation, savings and engagement to quantify the business impact of benefits changes. This approach helps boost morale, support long term wellbeing, reduce turnover, and ultimately retain talent , ensuring your employee benefits programme delivers real value for both employees and the business.
We compare lease providers, model salary‑sacrifice options (including electric vehicle schemes) and recommend the most cost‑effective company car solution.
Benchmarking helps identifies competitive gaps so you can potentially reshape benefits to improve attraction, reduce churn and support talent strategy. This helps gives you a competitive advantage by aligning with employee expectations and supporting a strong company culture. As benefits become increasingly important to today’s workforce, a well-designed strategy helps you retain talent and prepare for the future.
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