Senior Manager, Fair Pay and DEI Consulting

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Workforce Transformation Consulting team at Mercer. This role will be based in London or other UK locations. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

Fair Pay Consultant

Do you have experience within Reward/Compensation? Would you like to specialise your skills within Local Pay Gap Compliance, Pay Equity and/or Pay Transparency Consulting? This is a highly topical growth area to assist our clients in relation to the upcoming EU Pay Transparency Directive and local UK and Ireland Pay Gap Reporting. Working within a team of experts in this area, and as part of the wider Workforce Transformation Consulting team, you will have the opportunity to lead on client projects and support on larger client projects. Due to the growth in this space, this role has significant opportunities for progression, across the UK, EU and potentially globally, with potential to support on more strategic DEI projects too.

Within this role:

• You will work on projects around pay equity, local pay gap compliance reporting and pay transparency journeys.
• You will build a thorough understanding of each client\’s business goals, strategies, culture and organisation and partner effectively, to accelerate their Pay Equity strategy.
• You will peer review UK & Ireland Pay Gap projects, advise clients on increasing demand for EU legislative support and connect the dots to wider global pay equity work.
• Over time, you will seek to build your expertise to lead end-to-end pay equity, pay transparency strategy projects, including analysis, workshops and action plan creation.

We will count on you to:

• Delegate and review pay gap analysis (including excel analysis) and present compliance-based reports.
• Lead client presentations and share recommendations with clients connecting to broader solutions.
• Support in the facilitation of executive workshops and presentations
• Work on project teams collaboratively with project management ownership.
• Lead project workstreams and small- to mid-sized projects in the areas of Pay Equity and Pay Transparency.
• Start to participate in sales and new business development by looking for opportunities to expand revenue from existing clients and by supporting prospecting efforts with new clients.

What you need to have:

• Good experience of local pay gap compliance and/or pay equity analysis and/or people analytics and / or pay transparency, could include experience either within consulting or in house rewards.
• Experience managing small- to mid-sized projects
• Knowledge /understanding of the UK and Ireland Gender Pay Gap legislation and EU Pay Transparency Directive
• Excellent Excel skills
• High attention to detail with the ability to identify small errors and their causes.
• Ability to manage many schedules and priorities simultaneously with little guidance on complex work steps and juggle many projects at once.
• Ability to explain complex concepts and technical findings to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work independently and generate a concise story about complex data.
• Clear written and verbal communication and client relationship building skills.
• Team working skills, working with colleagues across various disciplines within projects and own team.

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, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a global leader in helping clients realize their investment objectives, shape the future of work and enhance health and retirement outcomes for their people. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit mercer.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.
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Marsh McLennan 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 McLennan 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.

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