Reward - Associate Director

**The Role**
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 curious abouthow employees and their pay can play a part in helping - or hindering - the effectiveness of top companies?
As an Associate Director in the WTW GB&I Work, Rewards & Careers practice you will manage consulting projects while providing input to senior colleagues and overseeing and quality-reviewing analysts’ work. You will partner with internal colleagues - includinganalysts, other consultants and technical experts - and clients to design and implement Work, Rewards & Careers solutions.
In the Work, Rewards & Careers team, we work with clients in a wide range of area, including:

- Job levelling, job architecture and career architecture - we help companies define and grade the jobs they need, build and communicate career paths and development opportunities to employees.
- 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.
- 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 an Associate Director you will be managing projects with clients in these areas and across all industries. You’ll typically be working on multiple projects at once so be prepared never to be boredYou will:

- Deliver superior, consistent project management for multiple clients, serving as the day-to-day project lead and ensuring progress of the team against established objectives, budget, timeline, deliverables and quality standards
- Collaborate and contribute to the development, design and implementation of effective Work, Rewards & Careers solutions
- Establish 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
- Leverage and manage the work of junior staff, 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, and recognising opportunities to expand business and partner with appropriate colleaguesto do so
- Participate in and contribute to activities that support continued revenue growth of the Work, Rewards & Careers line of business and WTW 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 Work, Rewards & Careers experience, ideally in consulting or highly consultative corporate environments
- Significant knowledge and understanding of Work, Rewards & Careers programmes and processes
- Proven experience successfully managing multiple, multi-faceted projects and producing quality deliverables on time and within budget
- Exceptional client relationship management skills
- Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills and clear, concise and confident written and verbal communication skills

**Equal Opportunity Employer