Senior Associate, Leadership Practice
About The Position
The Senior Associate is a critical delivery leader within Pearl Meyer’s Leadership Practice, owning assigned projects and/or multiple or interdependent workstreams. The role integrates results into fully formed, client-ready work products and anticipates issues, shapes storylines and recommendations, directs and reviews junior team members’ work, and delivers output requiring limited senior-level iteration. While not accountable for the overall engagement, the Senior Associate is central to delivery excellence and contributes through increasing client influence, subject-matter depth, business development, and collaboration across the Leadership Practice and more widely across Pearl Meyer.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to own and integrate multiple workstreams or significant portions of an engagement and deliver fully formed, client-ready work product with limited senior iteration.
- Strong analytical, synthesis, written, verbal, and presentation skills, including shaping storylines and recommendations and engaging in substantive client discussions.
- Ability to anticipate issues, exercise sound judgment, review junior colleagues’ work, and demonstrate growing subject-matter depth and commercial awareness.
- Flexibility to pivot attention to more pressing client needs, as directed.
Responsibilities
- Own projects, interdependent workstreams, or a significant portion of a large engagement, and integrate results into a coherent client-ready answer.
- Produce fully formed, client-ready work product with limited senior iteration and exceptional standards for rigor, accuracy, storyline, judgment, and usefulness.
- Anticipate engagement-level issues, propose solutions, and escalate with judgment; help shape the workplan, storyline, and recommendations with more senior consultants.
- Build trusted relationships with project-level and increasingly senior client stakeholders; lead substantive portions of client meetings and increasingly influence client thinking and action.
- Direct and review junior team members’ work, ensuring quality, pace, effective handoffs, and timely feedback while building others’ capabilities.
- When assigned alongside Client Success Team members, collaborate to ensure all facets of client delivery are exemplary in the eyes of the client.
- Deepen selected solution, functional, or sector expertise and apply it independently in client work; synthesize market and firm knowledge into useful insights.
- Contribute substantively to proposals, pitches, account planning, and opportunity development; connect relevant capabilities across Leadership and Executive Compensation and take ownership of defined Practice or firm initiatives.
Benefits
- Medical insurance, including prescription coverage
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Commuter Account
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Group Accident and Group Critical Illness coverage
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Group Legal
- Identity Theft Protection
- Wellbeing Program and Work/Life Resources, including Employee Assistance Program
- Paid holidays
- Annual paid time off, including paid state/local leave where required
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
- Other leaves, including Bereavement, FMLA, ADA, Jury Duty, Military Leave, and Parental and Adoption Leave
- 401(k) Savings Plan
- Annual short-term incentive bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
