Company:

Mercer

Description:

Mercer is seeking candidates for the following position based in the London office:

Manager - Executive Compensation Consulting

Mercer’s Executive Reward team focuses on providing high-quality, tailored, and independent consulting advice on remuneration. Our advice is relied upon at the highest levels of corporate decision making, including Board of Directors and senior executives. We provide best-in-class consulting, rigorous analytics, and data-driven insights to help organisations of all sizes and industries ensure their executive reward strategy supports the needs of the business and reinforces success.

What can you expect?

• To work with a broad range of clients and industries participating as a project lead or project manager to diagnose client issues and shape executive remuneration solutions for Remuneration Committees and management, in collaboration with our Reward team which delivers solutions for the wider workforce.
• As a team, we do great work for great clients and we make our business better every day.
• You will be a front-line advisor with client exposure from day one. This means you will be encouraged and inspired to make a difference by tackling interesting client challenges alongside a bright and supportive peer group from day one.
• Work on a wide variety of high profile and meaningful projects with high profile clients in the UK and internationally

What is in it for you?

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

We will count on you to:

• Manage our project teams to prepare for Remuneration Committee or Executive Committee meetings. Be the point of contact for our clients and building trusted advisor relationships.
• Begin to lead, define and develop deliverables to solve client problems
• Keep up to date with client needs with day to day client interaction, anticipating our clients’ needs to problem solve non-standard, complex queries
• Allocate work to and manage our analysts to ensure quality review processes are implemented. Peer review complex pieces of work. Interpret the outputs of analyses to write and structure client presentations that are fully customized to our clients
• Draft and/or review reports and Remuneration Committee papers. Shape the design of solutions with guidance from project leads. Solutions may include: incentive design, remuneration policy reviews, reviews in light of IPO or M&A activity
• Attend and have experience in presenting at client meetings with senior stakeholders
• Be accountable for delivery of high quality work and manage the project budget. Be pro-active in managing financials through monthly billing
• Lead client outputs in relation to market development and contribute to strategic thinking, including through thought leadership pieces, to reinforce our positioning as the global leader in HR consulting
• Lead and contribute to project proposals and marketing initiatives to win new business, support pricing activities to recommend a profitable commercial model
• Have accountability for a small book of business and grow this over time
• Maintain broad knowledge of the wider offering of the Career department’s products/services, building internal relationships to connect clients with the relevant contacts
• Meet with potential candidates to support recruitment for the business, potentially having responsibility for analysts as a people manager

What you need to have: 

• Siginificant previous consulting and/or industry experience within Executive Compensation/ Executive Reward
• Professional qualifications and related Executive Reward experience from accounting, legal or actuarial backgrounds would also be suited to this role
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Proven, developed analytical and technical (Excel) skills
• Excellent written and presentation skills (Word, PowerPoint)
• Demonstrate proven problem solving abilities coupled with the ability to interpret data and ‘story’ tell
• The ability to engage with clients, demonstrating strong interpersonal skills, influencing facilitation, presentation and communication
• Demonstrated commercial awareness and ability to sell and upsell to clients
• Exceptional organisational and project management skills with high attention to detail
• Highly professional with a proven ability to work in a consultative and collaborative manner, with interpersonal skills and desire to nurture and mentor analysts.
• Results motivated with the tenacity to get things done 
• Aptitude for problem solving, with the ability to apply logic and experience to assist with the development of solutions for clients
• Intellectual curiosity and commitment to learning and growth

Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a global leader in helping clients realize their investment objectives, shape the future of work and enhance health and retirement outcomes for their people. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit mercer.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at [email protected] McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.