Senior Associate Rewards & Careers

Position: Senior Associate - Work, Rewards & Careers
** Description*
* As a Senior Associate in our Work, Rewards and Careers practice, you will work beside some of the industry's top consultants while you develop deep and cutting-edge technical knowledge and skills. You will manage consulting projects while providing input to senior colleagues and overseeing and quality-reviewing analysts' work.

You will partner with internal colleagues - including analysts, other consultants and technical experts - and the leadership of our clients to design and implement strategies and programs to attract, reward and retain talent.

Our projects range in scope from specific solutions to broad cross-LOB engagements, such as support for M&A transactions, 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.

Note:

Employment-based non-immigrant visa sponsorship and/or assistance is not offered for this specific job opportunity.

** The Role*
* While every day and assignment are somewhat different, some of your main responsibilities will include:

+ Delivering effective, consistent project management for multiple, marquee clients.

+ Drafting statements of work, project plans and budgets involving multiple workflow streams and client teams

+ Serving as the day-to-day project lead, ensuring progress of the team against established objectives, budget, timeline, deliverables and quality standards

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

+ Operating as the key contact to clients on delivery of services; managing client expectations and raise appropriate issues to Senior Consultants

+ Collaborating and contributing to the development, design and implementation of compensation and related programs.

+ Contributing to the development of new tools and approaches

+ Supporting the generation of new business as part of the broader team by:

+ Assisting with new business development activities.

+ Participating in 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.

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

** Qualifications*
* ** The Requirements*
* + A minimum of 5 years of design-orientated broad-based rewards experience in consulting or highly consultative corporate environments, and a genuine interest in this field

+ Significant knowledge and understanding of rewards programs and processes

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

+ Proven experience successfully managing multiple, multi-faceted projects and producing quality deliverables on time and within budget

+ An executive presence with polished and well-developed communication skills, including experience making presentations and "sell" ideas to colleagues and management.

+ Self-starter attitude and ability to work within ambiguity.

+ Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

+ Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills and clear, concise written and verbal communication skills

** Compensation and Benefits*
* Base…