Project Manager/Senior Consultant – Part-time

Compensation Works’ practice is growing!  We are looking for creative people who love the value of a flexible work arrangement, exciting project work and care about making a difference in our clients’ businesses.  We are a team who feels strongly about entrepreneurship, innovation, and doing the right thing for our clients – oh, and we’re also fun to work with!

We currently have an opening for a part-time Project Manager/Senior Consultant to work with our clients.  This position has a flexible work schedule and the freedom to work remotely.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic thought leadership and oversee engagements to ensure client satisfaction.
• Interact with Executives and other leaders within client organizations to demonstrate existing capabilities to address business challenges.
• Owns specific projects to ensure delivery against project objectives and provides support as a thought leader in methodologies relative to analysis, design, and implementation approaches and methods to be leveraged on projects undertaken.
• Participate in leveraging change management approaches and methods and support assessing organizational capacity and readiness for change.
• Deliver superior, consistent project management for multiple client projects. Provide direction and leadership to project teams through all project phases, including initiation, planning, delivery, and close.  Client projects will vary in size, duration, and complexity.
• Provide direction for and, as needed, participate in the design, development, administration, and training related to client compensation programs that provide seamless delivery of solutions for our clients. Client compensation programs may include base pay, incentive plans, sales compensation plans, executive compensation plans, equity programs, performance management plans, career ladders, job families, job descriptions, competencies, salary surveys, FLSA compliance, and related programs.
• Contribute to the development of new tools and approaches. Develop robust tools that can be leveraged across CW projects, such as cost models, market analysis tools, presentations, and training.
• Continue to develop technical knowledge and skills in compensation and total rewards.
• Assist with new business development activities and extending and expanding engagements with existing clients, identifying business needs, validating key pain points, defining project needs, project timelines, and scope estimations to create SOWs, proposals, and RFP responses.
• Support growth of CW’s compensation consulting practice by assisting with new business development activities, such as attending professional association meetings, presenting at conferences, conducting webinars, and writing articles/blog posts.
• Contribute to the overall improvement of CW’s compensation services and solutions. Assist in identifying, researching, designing, and implementing new compensation solutions to meet client needs.

Please note:  August through November work hours will typically be heavy due to the annual compensation cycle of our clients’ businesses.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Finance, Economics, or related degree
• Five or more years of human resources project management, project delivery, and client relationship management
• Ten or more years of professional compensation experience, ideally in both external consultant and internal corporate roles.
• Comprehensive experience working with base pay programs, incentive plan design, and implementation
• Understand, interpret, and solve business needs by leveraging best practices
• Be familiar with the full range of human resources disciplines and emerging trends related to total rewards and change management.
• Creative, analytical, and results-driven orientation, demonstrated through the ability to draw conclusions, themes, and trends from data analysis and communicate results effectively
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and deliverables simultaneously
• Proven track record of problem-solving, understanding and anticipating customer needs to set expectations accordingly
• Advanced Excel skills, including v-lookups, pivot tables, development of charts and graphs to support analysis and recommendations
• Must have excellent verbal/written communication ability and presentation skills. Proven ability to communicate effectively and impactfully to all levels of an organization.
• Practical knowledge of implications of government regulatory guidelines on compensation programs

Preferred Experience & Skills:

• Two or more years selling, leading, and managing billable compensation consulting projects
• Data orientation, including experience with SAAS compensation systems and building models and forecasts
• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) and/or other related compensation certifications

Characteristics & Keys to Success:

• Thinks business first but quickly grasps and can be conversant in compensation programs and their application to human capital initiatives
• Strong executive presence with the ability to operate at a senior leadership level
• Strong ability to identify issues, structure and conduct analyses, organize findings, draw conclusions, identify next steps, and make recommendations with limited guidance
• Enjoys creating and implementing new initiatives
• Can work effectively in a team-based collaborative model as well as independently
• Innovative and curious, and readily able to think outside of the box
• Self-starter who brings a high sense of urgency to assignments and goals
• Comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Passionate about learning
• Has strong project management skills but deploys a flexible approach to meet the needs of a broad group of diverse clients
• Balances analytical and creative abilities
• Detail-oriented and effective multi-tasker