Work & Rewards - Senior Director

WTW•Chicago, IL

8d•$157,600 - $236,400

About The Position

As a Director in our Work, Rewards, & Careers (WRC) practice, you will be primarily responsible for leading and/or partnering with Senior Directors to sell and deliver client engagements in your areas of subject matter expertise. You will manage consulting projects (either directly or through project managers) while operating as a thought partner to senior colleagues in the design of solutions for our clients’ needs. In this capacity, you will act as a coach and mentor for consultants and analysts. Our projects range in scope from specific solutions to broad cross-line of business engagements, such as support for M&A transactions, and 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) and 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.

Requirements

Subject matter expertise in areas of Work, Rewards, & Careers (WRC)
Experience managing consulting projects
Experience acting as a thought partner to senior colleagues
Experience coaching and mentoring consultants and analysts
Experience with M&A transactions
Experience with total rewards strategy and optimization
Experience with Rewards disciplines: 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
Experience with Careers and Work disciplines: Competency and skills frameworks, Performance management, Workforce analytics and planning, Functional/organization structure design, Career philosophy/strategy
Experience supporting revenue growth activities
Experience supporting marketing events
Experience performing industry/topical research
Experience developing intellectual capital
Experience participating in industry and/or topical teams
Experience serving as lead consultant on client projects
Experience developing reward strategies aligned with human capital strategy and business goals
Experience managing complex project engagements profitably
Experience leading new business generation
Experience facilitating discovery discussions with prospects
Experience developing and delivering proposals
Experience establishing collaborative relationships with clients
Experience pioneering unique approaches to solving business problems
Experience providing high quality consulting advice
Experience providing accurate technical content
Experience providing engaging deliverables to senior leaders
Experience using effective written and spoken communications
Experience leveraging and managing junior staff
Experience providing coaching and ongoing feedback
Experience mentoring consultants and analysts
Experience serving as a positive role model of company values
Experience contributing to building an employer of choice culture
Experience contributing to the development of new tools and approaches
Experience contributing to external visibility through intellectual capital generation, drafting articles, and speaking at conferences

Responsibilities

Serving as the lead Consultant on client projects and/or as the “second” for most complex clients/engagements, developing appropriate reward strategies which align with the overall human capital strategy and support the client’s business goals.
Managing multiple and complex project engagements in a way that ensures profitable revenue for WTW, associate engagement and development and high client satisfaction.
Leading or co-leading the generation of new business by facilitating 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.
Thinking strategically in partnering with clients to pioneer unique approaches to solving their business problems.
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 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.
Contributing to the external visibility of WTW’s brand through intellectual capital generation, drafting articles, and attending and speaking at relevant conferences.