Lead Associate

Would you like to be part of a high-performing team, helping some of the world’s largest organisations make themselves better places to work?Are you interested in how people and their performance can impact company culture and results?Are you curiousabout how employees and their pay can play a part in helping - or hindering - the effectiveness of top companies?
**The Role**
In the Reward team, we work with clients on:

- Total rewards strategy - we partner with organisations to review, develop and articulate total rewards strategy.What does business strategy mean for people?How does HR strategy translate into reward objectives?Do we need to pay at the top of the marketto attract Digital roles for example?If so, should we deliver more of this amount in bonuses to drive performance?How should bonuses be structured?What will the future of work look like for us?At WTW we have market-leading tools that enable our clientsto determine how to allocate their total reward spend most appropriately and we are true pioneers when it comes to delivering a consumer-grade total reward experience for employees.
- Job levelling and architecture - we help companies define and grade the jobs they need and communicate career paths and development opportunities to employees
- Sales effectiveness and rewards - we help organisations understand how to drive the achievement of sales goals through aligning strategy to incentives and good governance
- M&A and other transactions - from assessing the pros and cons of a potential target organisation to ensuring companies come together and integrate effectively, we help companies make the best of M&A opportunities
- Getting pay right - whether it’s helping a company interpret and navigate pay fairness and greater pay transparency, or designing a new base pay structure or short-term incentive plan, we do it all. Together with our unrivalled compensation data and software,we’re the first port of call for companies looking to review and improve their compensation programmes
As a Lead Associate in the Willis Towers Watson (WTW) GB Reward practice you will help manage and deliver consulting projects while providing input to senior colleagues and overseeing and quality-reviewing analysts’ work. You will partner with internal colleagues
- including analysts, other consultants and technical experts - and clients to design and implement compensation-related and broader HR solutions. You will be part of a project team, working with clients in all these areas and across all industries.You’lltypically be working on multiple projects at once so be prepared never to be boredYou will:

- Deliver superior, consistent project management, serving as the day-to-day project lead on smaller engagements and supporting the project manager on larger projects, helping ensure progress of the team against established objectives, budget, timeline, deliverablesand quality standards
- Collaborate and contribute to the development, design and implementation of effective reward solutions
- Establish collaborative relationships with clients to understand their business and issues to better inform our consulting and to expand Willis Towers Watson’s relationship into new service areas
- Prepare high quality analysis and written work, as well as leveraging and managing the work done by analysts, providing coaching and on-going feedback
- Support the generation of new business as part of the broader team by assisting with new business development activities, including proposal development and delivery
- Participate in and contribute to activities that support continued revenue growth of the Rewards line of business and Willis Towers Watson overall. This may include supporting local, regional and/or national marketing events, performing industry/topicalresearch and developing intellectual capital, participating in our firm’s industry and/or other topical teams

**The Requirements**:

- Design-orientated compensation experience, ideally in consulting or highly consultative corporate environments
- Basic knowledge and understanding of Rewards programmes and processes
- Proven experience successfully managing multiple, multi-faceted projects and producing quality deliverables on time and within budget
- Good client relationship management skills
- Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills and clear, concise and confident written and verbal communication skills