Senior Director, Sales Effectiveness & Rewards

WTW•Chicago, IL

About The Position

As a Senior Director, you will be primarily responsible for leading and partnering with colleagues to sell and deliver Sales Effectiveness & Rewards engagements with a wide range of clients across industry sectors. In this capacity, you will act as a coach and mentor for consultants and analysts. The scope of our projects includes sales incentive assessment and design, customer facing incentive design, incentive plan implementation and communication, pay-level benchmarking, goal-setting methodology development, job leveling, career management program design, and custom surveys, as well as projects in partnership with other lines of business such as M&A due diligence and integration, total rewards strategy design and rewards optimization assessments. Our work spans a wide variety of disciplines, including: Sales compensation strategy Competitive sales compensation analyses Base salary program design Sales incentive program design (and incentive design for other customer facing roles) Careers and Work (focused on sales roles) Job levelling and architecture Competency and skills frameworks Role profiles Performance management 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

Serving as the lead Sales Effectiveness & Rewards Consultant on client projects, guiding your WTW teams to assess, design, develop and implement sales compensation strategies and programs (e.g., base pay, sales incentives, performance management) which align with the clients’ overall human capital strategy and support their business and talent objectives.
Overseeing the delivery of multiple and complex project engagements in a way that ensures profitable revenue for WTW, associate engagement and development and high client satisfaction.
Leading the generation of new business by facilitating regular pipeline management, engaging in prospect discovery, creating and implementing strategies to penetrate local and regional markets, listening for broader opportunities across Work & Rewards, developing and delivering proposals to ultimately achieve yearly sales goals and in support of the broader Work & Rewards objectives.
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.
Thinking strategically in partnering with clients to pioneer unique approaches to solving their business problems and leveraging our data and digital solutions and partnerships to deliver the work and enable the client solution on an ongoing basis
Providing high quality consulting advice, accurate technical content and engaging deliverables to senior leaders in client companies.
Using highly effective written and spoken communications to deliver detailed findings, analyses and recommendations to senior leaders of client organizations.
Leveraging to and managing the work of project managers and junior staff, providing coaching and on-going feedback.
Demonstrating leadership ability by effectively mentoring consultants and analysts.
Serving as a positive role model of WTW values and contribute to building an employer of choice culture of top performing associates committed to client satisfaction, teamwork and excellence in all that is done.
Contributing to the development of new tools and approaches.
Building WTW’s Sales Effectiveness & Rewards brand through intellectual capital generation, publications, and speaking engagements.