Senior Associate - Work, Rewards & Careers

As a Consultant 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.

• 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

This position will remain posted for a minimum of three business days from the date posted or until a sufficient/appropriate candidate slate has been identified.

Compensation and Benefits

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