Senior Executive Rewards Consultant

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Career Consulting team at Mercer. This role will be based in Dallas, TX. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

Mercer’s Executive Rewards group helps companies design, assess, and execute performance measurement and rewards strategies that reinforce business objectives. We provide best-in-class consulting, rigorous analytics, and data-driven insights that help organizations make fact-based decisions. Our clients are primarily senior executives and Board members at Fortune 500 companies. 

We help our clients:

• Analyze company and industry financial performance and calibrate pay levels to performance results

• Align rewards with value-creating business strategies

• Translate business strategies and shareholder expectations into performance measurement and goal-setting systems (e.g., annual and long-term incentive program design)

• Stay abreast of regulatory developments and their implications and monitor global market trends

As a Senior Executive Rewards Consultant, you will work closely with clients to support the design and implementation of executive compensation programs that align with their business strategy and governance requirements. 

We will count on you to:

• Provide consulting services to senior management and Boards of Directors on a variety of executive compensation issues, including competitiveness of pay, performance measurement, and governance and regulatory implications

• Develop executive compensation strategies, philosophies, and programs that address clients’ attraction and retention needs

• Design short-term and long-term incentive programs that reinforce the clients’ strategic objectives

• Manage client projects and presentations and provide formal and informal coaching, technical review, and development for Analysts and Associates on the project team

What you need to have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, human resources, or a related field

• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in human resources or management consulting, with demonstrated experience in executive compensation at a professional services firm

• Proven track record advising public and private companies across industries on compensation strategy development, competitive pay analysis, and pay-for-performance alignment

• Hands-on experience designing incentive programs (annual and long-term), including equity strategy

• Experience supporting board and executive-level compensation discussions and delivering client-ready materials, analyses, and recommendations

What makes you stand out?

• Strong business and financial acumen

Why join our team:

• 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.

Mercer is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about Mercer, visit mercer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh 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, 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, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting View email address on click.appcast.io.

Marsh 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 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.