Associate Consultant - Rewards

Description:

Mercer is seeking candidates for the following position based any office location in Australia

Associate Consultant - Rewards

What can you expect?

• Primary focus for the role is the delivery and project management of solutions to clients on a range of projects within the Rewards and M&A practice areas.
• Core activities include understanding client issues and developing practical Rewards programs/solutions, driving the delivery of client solutions, project managing client facing teams, working with and involving other team members, monitoring progress and peer reviewing outcomes.

At Mercer, we recognise that our most important asset is our people. We offer benefits and programs that support career development such as professional development support, exam and study assistance and global rotation opportunities which will support and nurture you with every opportunity to reach your full potential.

We also recognise the value of healthy, happy colleagues and promote a culture of care and wellbeing, offering benefits such as flexible working and much more!

• Open to any Mercer office location in Australia
• Leading training and development program
• Professional environment where your career path really matters and is supported in our global organisation
• Great team environment with energetic and supportive colleagues
• Genuine work life balance

• Apply your consulting skills and technical expertise, along with relevant methodologies (that you'll be trained in) and professional judgment to client projects.
• Demonstrate intellectual leadership and consistently test final deliverables for completeness, relevance, and high impact against client issues and needs.
• Plan, design, resource and manage client projects and direct staff in executing the plan, and deliver projects on time and within budget
• Nurture key client relationships, identify opportunities to broaden or deepen these relationships in partnership with senior consultants, anticipating and responding to future client needs
• Support Business Development initiatives and proposals
• Develop own and other's capability through informal and formal learning opportunities
• Participate in internal projects to improve Mercer, in particular talent, quality, service delivery, internal efficiency/effectiveness and intellectual capital

• Relevant undergraduate qualification is essential (e.g., business, human resources, finance)
• Relevant post-graduate qualification is desirable (e.g., MBA, Master of HR/Employment Relations)
• Experience in delivering and developing human capital services in corporate and/or consulting contexts across a number of industries
• Demonstrated project management experience and the ability to effectively manage people
• Solid client management skills, including the ability to develop and maintain relationships and identify new business opportunities
• Strong teaming capability in order to work collaboratively with colleagues across service areas on business development activities, client relationship management and delivery of integrated solutions
• High level conceptual skills with the ability to rapidly learn new material and apply learning in a practical context to solve client problems
• Able to operate effectively in ambiguous situations with limited supervision, to multitask and to manage the pressure of competing deadlines without becoming unduly stressed
• Detail orientation and high quality outputs
• Client centric mindset
• Uses initiative and drives to outcomes

Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being. Mercer's approximately 25,000 employees are based in 43 countries and the firm operates in 130 countries. Mercer is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world's leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with 85,000 colleagues and annual revenue of over $20 billion. Through its market-leading businesses including Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment. For more information, visit mercer.com. Follow Mercer on LinkedIn and Twitter

Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, 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.

Marsh 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. Note: the changes to our hybrid work policy do not apply to officially designated remote workers and are subject to any works council or local legal requirement.