Senior Compensation Consultant

Marsh McLennan•Los Angeles, CA

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Career Consulting team at Mercer. This role will be based in Los Angeles, CA and offers a hybrid work arrangement, requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office or with clients. Mercer is uniquely qualified to help organizations design and execute sophisticated workforce strategies, whether it’s for a multinational organization or a local company attempting to grow within its market. We provide best-in-class consulting, rigorous analytics, and data-driven insights that help organizations make fact-based decisions. As a Principal Engagement Manager, you will work with clients around the world to engage their most important assets, their people. This is a great opportunity to partner with Board members, senior executives, and HR leaders to optimize business performance through strategies that better manage, reward, and engage their people. Mercer provides clients with a range of integrated solutions across multiple practice areas: Workforce Rewards, Job Architecture, Work Re-design, HR Transformation, Talent Strategy, Workforce Planning & Analytics, Communications, Change Management and Mobility.

Requirements

4 to 6 years of prior experience in compensation rewards consulting.
Domain knowledge in Total Rewards across salary structure, grade levelling, job evaluation applications, incentive pay design, etc.
Willingness to solve real client problems and create impact.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Strong stakeholder and project management skills.
Ability to build rapport easily and maintain relationships with various teams/stakeholders.
Readiness to actively contribute to a collaborative, innovative team culture.

Responsibilities

Manage a portfolio of clients within Mercer’s reward products business, with a primary focus on salary surveys.
Build and maintain strong client relationship with key accounts and/or assigned industries.
Serve as the industry lead for this portfolio, collaborating closely with other analysts to retain clients subscribed to Mercer products/surveys and to expand client accounts for survey and data subscriptions within the industry.
Mentor analysts in addressing data inquiries for client accounts and providing service for Mercer products.
Conduct analysis on compensation and benefits data, identify compensation trends, benchmark job evaluations, design salary structures, and engage in advanced rewards, performance management, bonus design analysis, and consulting projects.
Provide strong support in delivering custom survey/project assigned across all domains of total rewards working closely with the project managers.
Grow in the role to become project manager for such consulting projects.
Create presentations and reports on analytical insights and industry trends.
Embrace a client-centric mindset by proactively identifying and addressing client needs.
Ensure timely and satisfactory fulfillment of client requests.