Associate Director - Work, Rewards, and Careers

As an Associate Director in our Work, Rewards and Careers practice, you will collaborate with 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 junior staff’s work. You may also serve as project lead on projects of smaller scope.

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. In addition to broad-based compensation consulting, we support clients across a range of work and career-focused disciplines, including

• Competency and skills frameworks 
• Performance management 
• Career philosophy/strategy 
• Career frameworks and job leveling 
• Job architecture and knowledge architecture 
• Workforce analytics and planning 
• Functional/organization structure design 

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.

While every day and assignment are somewhat different, some of your main responsibilities will include:

• 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. 
• Supporting the generation of new business as part of the broader team by: 
• 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.