Senior Manager, Compensation Consulting

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Overview:

**PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION THOROUGHLY. CANDIDATES MUST HAVE CURRENT OR RECENT CONSULTING FIRM EXPERIENCE AND MUST BE MARKET-FACING TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE.***

As a Senior Manager in the Compensation Consulting team, you will primarily be responsible for opportunity cultivation, leading, and delivering on client engagements, serving as a strategic advisor to the firm’s clients, and growing the Compensation Consulting practice. Your role involves expanding client service for compensation strategy development, pay equity, compensation and incentive plan design, compensation committee support, and C-suite and board advisory. You will collaborate with colleagues across various practices, develop and maintain key client and other stakeholder relationships, manage multiple complex projects, and provide high-quality consulting advice. Additionally, you may contribute thought leadership, identify cross-selling opportunities, and serve as performance advisor to other consultants.

Essential Job Duties:

Growth and strategy: Create and execute strategies to expand client service, identifying opportunities to expand or enhance products and services, and building relationships to maximize client service growth; significant input on identifying target clients to accelerate team growth and initiatives to build our market reputation for our compensation consulting services; stays alert to emerging client trends or macroeconomic conditions that may result in growth opportunities for the firm.

Lead client service delivery: Leading and delivering client engagements, and serving as an first-choice advisor to clients in areas of subject matter expertise including compensation philosophy development, executive compensation, benchmarking, short and long-term incentive design, compensation committee advice/support, and board advisory. Oversee documentation, presentations, and reports for client meetings and project deliverables. Ensure accuracy and clarity in all communications to clients and internal stakeholders.

Compliance Monitoring: Assist in monitoring and understanding regulatory changes and industry standards related to compensation and taxation, and where it may impact clients.

Financial and People management: Managing team pipeline, and overseeing operational excellence; training, mentoring, developing and providing feedback to other consultants; managing resource allocation, utilization and workflow; monitoring and managing engagement metrics and the invoicing process.

Collaboration: Build relationships internally and work collaboratively with team members across functions and LOB’s to deliver high-quality solutions and exceed client expectations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field
• CCP, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR-HR, or SPHR-HR designation
• 10+ years of experience in strategic compensation consulting including client-facing roles and leadership and growth responsibilities

• Strong understanding of compensation principles to include board governance, compensation committee communications, proxy filings, market analysis, job architecture, job description development, salary structures, leveling, development of pay guidelines, pay equity analysis, cost analysis, long term and short term incentive plan design, executive compensation, union compensation, sales incentive plans, benefits benchmarking and total rewards program design, knowledge of compensation benchmarking methodologies and survey participation, and experience with working within compensation survey data bases and data manipulation and analytics.
• Strong analytical skills and keen attention to detail.
• Excellent client service skills, verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive, growth-oriented with ability to build professional network.
• Experience working in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel.
• Knowledge of HRIS platforms and compensation management software.
• Ability to work independently and multi-task within high volume environment with minimal supervision.

Preferred Technical/Soft Skills