Senior Director - Broad-based Compensation Consulting

As a Senior Director in our Work, Rewards, & Careers (WRC) practice, you will be primarily responsible for leading and/or partnering with Managing Directors and/or Senior Managing Directors to sell and deliver client engagements in your areas of subject matter expertise. You will manage consulting projects (either directly or through project managers) while operating as a thought partner to senior colleagues in the design of solutions for our clients’ needs. In this capacity, you will act as a coach and mentor for consultants and analysts.

Our projects range in scope from specific solutions to broad cross-line of business engagements, such as support for M&A transactions, and total rewards strategy and optimization. We support clients across a range of WRC disciplines, including:

Rewards:

Rewards strategy

Competitive compensation analyses

Base salary program design

Annual and sales incentive program design

Job levelling and architecture

Pay equity and pay fairness assessments

Careers and Work

Competency and skills frameworks

Performance management

Workforce analytics and planning

Functional/organization structure design

Career philosophy/strategy

You will also participate in and contribute to activities that support continued revenue growth of the Work & Rewards line of business and WTW overall. These activities may include supporting local, regional and/or national marketing events, performing industry/topical research and developing intellectual capital, and participating in our firm’s industry and/or topical teams.

The Role

Some of your main responsibilities will include:

Serving as the lead Consultant on client projects and/or as the “second” for most complex clients/engagements, developing appropriate reward strategies which align with the overall human capital strategy and support the client’s business goals.

Managing multiple and complex project engagements in a way that ensures profitable revenue for WTW, associate engagement and development and high client satisfaction.

Leading or co-leading the generation of new business by facilitating discovery discussions with prospects and developing/delivering proposals.

Establishing collaborative relationships with clients to understand their business and issues to better inform our consulting and to expand WTW’s relationship into new service areas.

Thinking strategically in partnering with clients to pioneer unique approaches to solving their business problems.

Providing high quality consulting advice, accurate technical content and engaging deliverables to senior leaders in client companies.

Using highly effective written and spoken communications to deliver detailed findings, analyses and recommendations to senior leaders of client organizations.

Leveraging to and managing the work of junior staff, providing coaching and on-going feedback.

Demonstrating leadership ability by effectively mentoring consultants and analysts.

Serving as a positive role model of WTW values and contribute to building an employer of choice culture of top performing associates committed to client satisfaction, teamwork and excellence in all that is done.

Contributing to the development of new tools and approaches.

Contributing to the external visibility of WTW’s brand through intellectual capital generation, drafting articles, and attending and speaking at relevant conferences.

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The Requirements

A minimum of 10 years of design-orientated broad-based rewards experience in consulting or highly consultative corporate environments.

Significant knowledge and understanding of rewards programs and processes.

Excellent analytical skills both in terms of using analysis of quantitative and qualitative information to diagnose and resolve complex issues.

Creative, analytical and results-driven orientation, demonstrated through the ability to draw conclusions, themes, and trends from data analysis and communicate results effectively.

Strong project management capabilities, with the ability to manage both our internal teams and coordinate with our client partners.

Executive presence with excellent and persuasive oral and written communication skills.

Strong client relationship skills: the ability to influence management and the ability to work across all levels of an organization.

Proven ability to lead and develop teams of high performing consulting professionals.

Mentoring/coaching skills.

Working knowledge of Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Word.

Company Benefits

WTW provides a competitive benefit package which includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):

Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical (including prescription coverage), Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Commuter Account, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Group Accident, Group Critical Illness, Life Insurance, AD&D, Group Legal, Identify Theft Protection, Wellbeing Program and Work/Life Resources (including Employee Assistance Program)

Leave Benefits: Paid Holidays, Annual Paid Time Off (includes paid state/local paid leave where required), Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves (e.g., Bereavement, FMLA, ADA, Jury Duty, Military Leave, and Parental and Adoption Leave), Paid Time Off ( Washington State only )

Retirement Benefits: Contributory Pension Plan and Savings Plan (401k).

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

EOE, including disability/vets