Director, Executive Compensation Consulting

Role Overview
As a Director in the Executive Compensation Consulting 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.

The scope of our projects may range from those focused solely on executive compensation (e.g., competitive compensation analyses, annual and long-term incentive design, pay-for-performance analyses, Board of Directors compensation) to those involving other lines of business such as M&A due diligence and integration, total rewards strategy design and optimization assessments.

You will also participate in and contribute to activities that support continued revenue growth of the Work & Rewards 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

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

• Delivering superior, 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 programs that include total rewards strategy, competitive benchmarking, annual and long-term incentive plan design, employment contract review, change-in-control agreements, overall competitive pay analysis and pay-for-performance alignment.
• 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.

The Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of executive compensation consulting or related experience
• Experience designing incentive and equity-based compensation programs
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint capabilities
• Ability to work independently and in team environments
• Comfortable working in ambiguous or evolving situations

Skills & Competencies

• Executive presence and client-facing confidence
• Analytical thinking and data-driven decision-making
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Project management and organization
• Creative problem-solving

This position will remain posted for a minimum of three business days from the date posted or until a sufficient/appropriate candidate slate has been identified.