**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.
**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
- 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
**We will count on you to**:
- 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
**What you need to have**:
- 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
- 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
**About us**:
Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their sex/gender, marital or parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity.