Senior Associate, Leadership Practice

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of projects, interdependent workstreams, or major segments of large engagements.

• Combine results into cohesive, client-ready solutions.

• Create thorough, precise, and practical client-ready deliverables.

• Anticipate engagement-level challenges, propose solutions, and escalate issues with sound judgment.

• Assist in developing work plans, narratives, and recommendations alongside senior consultants.

• Establish trusted relationships with project-level and increasingly senior client stakeholders.

• Lead significant portions of client meetings, influencing client perspectives and actions.

• Oversee and evaluate the work of junior team members.

• Guarantee quality, efficiency, effective transitions, and timely feedback.

• Enhance the capabilities of others through coaching and constructive feedback.

• Collaborate with Client Success Team members to ensure outstanding client delivery.

• Expand solution, functional, or sector expertise and apply it independently.

• Integrate market and firm knowledge into actionable insights.

• Contribute to proposals, pitches, account strategy, and opportunity development.

• Connect relevant skills across Leadership and Executive Compensation.

• Manage defined Practice or firm initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven ability to own and integrate multiple workstreams or significant portions of an engagement.

• Capacity to deliver comprehensive, client-ready work with minimal senior iteration.

• Strong analytical, synthesis, written, verbal, and presentation capabilities.

• Proficiency in shaping narratives and recommendations while engaging in meaningful client discussions.

• Skill in anticipating issues and exercising sound judgment.

• Ability to review the work of junior colleagues.

• Developing subject-matter expertise and commercial awareness.

• Flexibility to shift focus to more urgent client needs as directed.

• Professionalism, integrity, confidentiality, collaboration, and an enterprise mindset.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual short-term incentive bonus.

• Medical insurance including prescription coverage.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Health Savings Account.

• Commuter Account.

• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Group Accident insurance.

• Group Critical Illness insurance.

• Life Insurance.

• AD&D insurance.

• Group Legal.

• Identity Theft Protection.

• Wellbeing Program.

• Work/Life Resources including Employee Assistance Program.

• Paid Holidays.

• Annual Paid Time Off.

• Paid state/local paid leave where required.

• Short-Term Disability.

• Long-Term Disability.

• Bereavement Leave.

• FMLA Leave.

• ADA Leave.

• Jury Duty Leave.

• Military Leave.

• Parental and Adoption Leave.

• 401(k) Savings Plan.