Work & Rewards - Associate Manager

WTW•Chicago, IL

About The Position

As an Associate Manager in our Work, Rewards and Careers practice, you will work side-by-side with some of the industry’s top consultants while you develop cutting edge technical knowledge and skills and gain experience working with a variety of clients across industries. You will have immediate exposure to client assignments which will draw on your imagination and creativity as well as your ability to analyze data, draw conclusions and present results. These experiences will help build your technical capabilities in the rewards and work disciplines, as well as client and project management skills. You will also benefit from more structured learning opportunities that are tailored to our business. 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

Responsibilities

Partnering with consultants and clients to design strategies and rewards programs to attract, reward and retain talent
Helping our clients ensure that their reward programs are competitive by performing competitive benchmarking analyses of compensation levels, program design and other rewards practices utilizing the range of WTW data, tools and processes
Modeling pay structures and conducting financial impact analyses of alternative designs
Developing, analyzing and calibrating incentive plan designs that help support companies’ business strategies
Drafting reports and exhibits presenting the team’s analytical work to client audiences
Performing industry and financial research
Keeping abreast of legal, regulatory and legislative trends that relate to corporate governance and compensation
Increasing efficiency within client teams by identifying ways to improve processes
Contributing to sales and marketing efforts by assisting with proposals and other client-specific business development efforts
Contributing to the external visibility of WTW’s brand through intellectual capital generation, drafting articles, and other contributions.