Mercer plans to hire nearly 90 staff during 2009, bucking the trend towards hiring freezes and redundancies in the financial sector.
According to Mercer Asia Pacific outsourcing business leader David Anderson, the new hirings will be made across all parts of the Mercer outsourcing business, with an emphasis on sales, operations and member services.
"The underlying message for Mercer is growth and last time I checked it was hard to grow unless you have good quality sales professionals working on your team and that's what we're adding," Anderson said.
During 2009 Mercer hopes to expand their multi-employer industry plans and corporate master trust businesses
Anderson said there were plans to appoint two senior sales professional within the next six weeks.
"In one case we have a verbal agreement and in the other we're working towards that contract," Anderson said.
In November, Mercer appointed Heather Dawson as outsourcing sales leader for Australia and Alex Kleiman as outsourcing sales and marketing manager for multi-employer (industry) plans.
"Mercers appointment of such experienced business development executives will accelerate our growth in this exciting and increasingly important market segment," Anderson said.
Mercer's outsourcing business has $40 billion in funds under administration and provides services to 650,000 super members and 20,000 private clients.
