Description:
Mercer is seeking candidates for the following position based any office location in Australia
Associate Consultant – Rewards
What can you expect?
1. 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.
2. 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.
What is in it for you?
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!
3. Open to any Mercer office location in Australia
4. Leading training and development program
5. Professional environment where your career path really matters and is supported in our global organisation
6. Great team environment with energetic and supportive colleagues
7. Genuine work life balance
We will count on you to:
8. Apply your consulting skills and technical expertise, along with relevant methodologies (that you’ll be trained in) and professional judgment to client projects.
9. Demonstrate intellectual leadership and consistently test final deliverables for completeness, relevance, and high impact against client issues and needs.
10. Plan, design, resource and manage client projects and direct staff in executing the plan, and deliver projects on time and within budget
11. Nurture key client relationships, identify opportunities to broaden or deepen these relationships in partnership with senior consultants, anticipating and responding to future client needs
12. Support Business Development initiatives and proposals
13. Develop own and other’s capability through informal and formal learning opportunities
14. Participate in internal projects to improve Mercer, in particular talent, quality, service delivery, internal efficiency/effectiveness and intellectual capital
What you need to have:
15. Relevant undergraduate qualification is essential (e.g., business, human resources, finance)
16. Relevant post-graduate qualification is desirable (e.g., MBA, Master of HR/Employment Relations)
17. Experience in delivering and developing human capital services in corporate and/or consulting contexts across a number of industries
18. Demonstrated project management experience and the ability to effectively manage people
19. Solid client management skills, including the ability to develop and maintain relationships and identify new business opportunities
20. 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
21. High level conceptual skills with the ability to rapidly learn new material and apply learning in a practical context to solve client problems
22. Able to operate effectively in ambiguous situations with limited supervision, to multitask and to manage the pressure of competing deadlines without becoming unduly stressed
23. Detail orientation and high quality outputs
24. Client centric mindset
25. Uses initiative and drives to outcomes