Senior Associate - Work, Rewards & Careers

WTW•New York, NY

About The Position

As a Senior Associate 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.

Responsibilities

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
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.