Senior Compensation Consultant - Florida

Company:

Mercer

Description:

At Mercer, we make a difference in the lives of more than 115 million people every day by advancing their health, wealth, and careers. We’re in the business of creating more secure and rewarding futures for our clients and their employees – whether we’re designing affordable health plans, assuring income for retirement, or aligning workers with workforce needs.

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Compensation Consulting team at Mercer. This role will be based in the Tampa office (will consider other Florida locations). This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

Senior Compensation Consultant

In our Career consulting business, we offer clients our expertise in a variety of areas that improve the employee experience. We help clients develop attractive compensation plans, measure and drive employee engagement, design effective career/job architectures, identify and implement HR technology solutions, assess pay equity, manage organizational change, create compelling HR communications, and more.

What can you expect?

• The Senior Compensation Consultant will be responsible for generating and delivering client work as well as contributing to thought leadership around a variety of remuneration issues, including compensation strategy, competitiveness of pay and benefits, performance measurement, and governance and regulatory implications

• You will work with organizations to identify the financial and people factors that drive value, and design financial performance measurement and target-setting systems to support these reward and compensation programs

• You will be responsible for project delivery, contribution to solution area, business development, and team management

• You will have responsibility for generating revenue through development of new client relationships and building and maintaining strong client relationships

We will count on you to:

Business Development

• Partner with other senior consultants and client managers to identify target organizations in the mid-to-large market for compensation services

• Independently identify prospects in the market for compensation services; lead discussions with prospects and clients on Mercer’s compensation value proposition and service offerings; prepare proposals and present Mercer’s capabilities to a wide range of prospects and stakeholders; and work to bring opportunities to successful close; negotiate final engagement terms; execute Statements of Work (SOWs) and engagement letters

Project Delivery

• Lead delivery of compensation engagements, including acting as overall program manager, peer reviewer, and day-to-day client contact

• Manage project economics – deliver on time and within budget; and manage delivery teams to ensure quality and value of all project deliverables for engagements

• Develop delivery teams to build depth of subject matter expertise

• Direct and oversee data compilation, research, and analysis performed by team members

Contribution to Solution Area

• Contribute to thought leadership, sales pipeline, methodology development, and team working environment; be viewed as a leader and mentor to junior staff; also, contribute to Mercer’s overall value proposition by building positive working relationships across the firm

Manage teams

• Structure, direct, review, and interpret analyses performed by the project team; provide guidance, coaching, and feedback to team members; and supervise junior staff as well as participate in the development process (evaluate, coach, mentor) less-experienced colleagues

What you need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in business, HR management, or finance/accounting

• At least 8+ years of external compensation consulting experience working with large client organizations; with at least 5 years of proven experience as a program manager, managing large-scale projects with multiple work streams

• Experience consulting with leading public and private companies in a variety of industries on compensation strategy development, competitive pay evaluation, pay/performance links, incentive program design (annual and long-term), equity strategy, change in control planning, mergers and acquisitions, and other issues

• Ability to identify, design, and recommend comprehensive, innovative solutions to help solve clients’ complex business issues

• Ability to financially scope a project as well as manage project budgets and risks, and the ability t