Senior Manager, Compensation Consulting

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Overview

As a Senior Manager in the Compensation Consulting team, you will primarily be responsible for opportunity cultivation, leading, and delivering on client engagements, serving as a strategic advisor to the firm’s clients, and growing the Compensation Consulting practice. This role requires more than technical compensation expertise—it demands a strong track record of client-facing experience and the ability to build and maintain strategic relationships with external stakeholders. At this stage in your career, contributing to business growth is essential, whether through expanding client engagements, identifying new opportunities, or driving practice development. You will be expected to expand client service for compensation strategy development, pay equity, compensation and incentive plan design, compensation committee support, and C-suite and board advisory. You will collaborate with colleagues across various practices, develop and maintain key client and other stakeholder relationships, manage multiple complex projects, and provide high-quality consulting advice. Additionally, you may contribute thought leadership, identify cross-selling opportunities, and serve as performance advisor to other consultants.

Essential Job Duties:

Growth and strategy: Create and execute strategies to expand client service, identifying opportunities to expand or enhance products and services, and building relationships to maximize client service growth; significant input on identifying target clients to accelerate team growth and initiatives to build our market reputation for our compensation consulting services; stays alert to emerging client trends or macroeconomic conditions that may result in growth opportunities for the firm.

Lead client service delivery: Leading and delivering client engagements, and serving as an first-choice advisor to clients in areas of subject matter expertise including compensation philosophy development, executive compensation, benchmarking, short and long-term incentive design, compensation committee advice/support, and board advisory. Oversee documentation, presentations, and reports for client meetings and project deliverables. Ensure accuracy and clarity in all communications to clients and internal stakeholders.

Compliance Monitoring: Assist in monitoring and understanding regulatory changes and industry standards related to compensation and taxation, and where it may impact clients.

Financial and People management: Managing team pipeline, and overseeing operational excellence; training, mentoring, developing and providing feedback to other consultants; managing resource allocation, utilization and workflow; monitoring and managing engagement metrics and the invoicing process.

Collaboration: Build relationships internally and work collaboratively with team members across functions and LOB’s to deliver high-quality solutions and exceed client expectations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field
• CCP, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR-HR, or SPHR-HR designation
• 10+ years of experience in strategic compensation consulting including client-facing roles with leadership and growth responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of compensation principles to include board governance, compensation committee communications, proxy filings, market analysis, job architecture, job description development, salary structures, leveling, development of pay guidelines, pay equity analysis, cost analysis, long term and short term incentive plan design, executive compensation, union compensation, sales incentive plans, benefits benchmarking and total rewards program design, knowledge of compensation benchmarking methodologies and survey participation, and experience with working within compensation survey data bases and data manipulation and analytics.
• Strong analytical skills and keen attention to detail.
• Excellent client service skills, verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive, growth-oriented with ability to build professional network.
• Experience working in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel.
• Knowledge of HRIS platforms and compensation management software.
• Ability to work independently and multi-task within high volume environment with minimal supervision.

Preferred Technical/Soft Skills

• Masters degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field
• Recent experience working with a national professional services or compensation consulting firm
• Working knowledge of tax impacts of various compensation components
• Experience working with various industries and ownership structures including publicly and privately owned companies, private equity, family offices, exempt organizations and state and local governments
• Ability to learn quickly, deal with ambiguity, and think independently
• Ability to lead, impact and influence change
• Ability to communicate with tact and diplomacy during the process of educating, mentoring, and coaching staff and management
• Experience working with project management technologies/tools (Smartsheet, etc.)
• WorkDay HCM experience 

At RSM, we offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people. We offer flexibility in your schedule, empowering you to balance life’s demands, while also maintaining your ability to serve clients. Learn more about our total rewards at https://rsmus.com/careers/working-at-rsm/benefits.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment as RSM does not tolerate discrimination and/or harassment based on race; color; creed; sincerely held religious beliefs, practices or observances; sex (including pregnancy or disabilities related to nursing); gender; sexual orientation; HIV Status; national origin; ancestry; familial or marital status; age; physical or mental disability; citizenship; political affiliation; medical condition (including family and medical leave); domestic violence victim status; past, current or prospective service in the US uniformed service; US Military/Veteran status; pre-disposing genetic characteristics or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. 

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process and/or employment/partnership. RSM is committed to providing equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, interview, or otherwise participate in the recruiting process, please call us at 800-274-3978 or send us an email at [email protected].

RSM does not intend to hire entry level candidates who will require sponsorship now OR in the future (i.e. F-1 visa holders). If you are a recent U.S. college / university graduate possessing 1-2 years of progressive and relevant work experience in a same or similar role to the one for which you are applying, excluding internships, you may be eligible for hire as an experienced associate.

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At RSM, an employee’s pay at any point in their career is intended to reflect their experiences, performance, and skills for their current role. The salary range (or starting rate for interns and associates) for this role represents numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to, education, skills, work experience, certifications, location, etc. As such, pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range.