Senior Director, Work & Rewards Toronto

Senior Director, Work, Rewards and Careers 

As a Senior Director in our Work, Rewards and Careers practice, you will be primarily responsible for leading and partnering with colleagues to sell and deliver client 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 ranges from those focused solely on broad-based rewards, careers and talent management to those involving other lines of business such as M&A due diligence and integration, total rewards strategy design and optimization assessments. Our work spans a wide variety of 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.

The Role 

Some of your main responsibilities will include: 

• Serving as the lead WRC Consultant on client projects, guiding your WTW project / client teams to develop the appropriate strategies and programs 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 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 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 contributing 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. 

The Requirements 

• A minimum of 10 years of design-orientated experience focused on one or more WRC disciplines in consulting or highly consultative corporate environments. 

• Significant knowledge and understanding of rewards programs and processes. 

• Excellent analytical skills both in terms of using analysis of quantitative and qualitative information to diagnose and resolve complex issues. 

• Creative, analytical and results-driven orientation, demonstrated through the ability to draw conclusions, themes, and trends from data analysis and communicate results effectively. 

• Strong project management capabilities, with the ability to manage both our internal teams and coordinate with our client partners. 

• Highly developed executive presence with excellent and persuasive oral and written communication skills. 

• Strong client relationship skills: the ability to influence management and the ability to work across all levels of an organization. 

• Proven ability to lead and develop teams of high performing consulting professionals. 

• Mentoring/coaching skills. 

• Working knowledge of Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Word. 

Compensation: The base salary compensation range being offered for this role is $200,000 CAD -$250,000 CAD per year.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in the process to screen, assess, or select applicants for a position but all final decisions and determinations are made exclusively by authorized human personnel.

This job posting is an advertisement for an existing vacancy.

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