Ascensus

Engagement Leader, Newport

Ascensus$90K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Illinois, US
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in compensation or consulting, focusing on both workforce and executive compensation
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Proven project management skills
  • Strong sales capabilities to effectively sell compensation projects
  • Ability to oversee project deliverables, including market pricing and pay structure design
  • Creative problem-solving abilities and capacity to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Responsibilities

  • Identify prospects through networking, public speaking, and writing articles
  • Listen to clients' issues to identify needs and propose solutions with associated costs
  • Liaise with clients and lead project teams to ensure high-quality deliverables
  • Oversee the development of deliverables such as pay structure designs and cost impact models
  • Support client consulting projects, ensuring team efficiency in market pricing and job evaluations
  • Work towards resolutions for escalated client issues and enhance client relationships
  • Generate revenue through client relationship management and cross-selling opportunities

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Access to a supportive and collaborative team environment
  • Potential for project extension and referral bonuses
  • Flexible working options
  • Involvement in high-visibility consulting projects
Full Job Description
Job Description:

The Compensation Consultant Engagement Leader will be an essential part of our Compensation Consulting team responsible for generating increased revenue through leads that come about from strategic relationships. This role is for someone who knows workforce and executive compensation practices and can sell a project. This person will lead and design projects involving increasing marketplace visibility and brand familiarity with Newport Group's name.

The Compensation Consultant Engagement Leader will:

  • Identify prospects through public speaking engagements, writing articles, and networking
  • Listen to a prospective client's issues, understand their situation, identify potential needs, and produce a solution while costing our proposal fees
  • Liaise with the client and lead teams working on assigned projects to ensure completion with a high level of technical and professional accuracy
  • Oversee the development of project deliverables such as market pricings, pay structure design, and cost impact models
  • Partner with team members related to researching on difficult questions or escalated issues and ensure project deliverables are understood and accepted
  • Work towards resolutions in response to escalated client issues and demonstrate a proactive solution-based approach to enhance client relations
  • Support client consulting projects through management of teams performing market pricing, job evaluation, regression analysis, pay structure design, cost impact models, and report preparation
  • Ensure team members meet very high standards for customer service, technical and communication skills
  • Generate revenue through the development of new client relationships while building and maintaining strong client relationships, which will ideally lead to opportunities for project extensions, cross-selling, and referrals to new prospects


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


  • Develop RFP (Request for Proposal) for new clients and existing cross selling opportunities.


You are the right person for this role if:

  • You know compensation practices very well
  • You have excellent sales capabilities to sell a project
  • You can provide oversight of project deliverables like market pricings, pay structure design, cost impact models, and can help with project billing
  • You have a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • You have proven project management skills and creative problem-solving abilities and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • You have 7+ years of experience in compensation or compensation-related consulting (with specific experience in workforce compensation and/or executive compensation


Preferred (but not required) skills for this role are:

  • Experience with MarketPay
  • CCP Certification
  • Masters or MBA degree

About Ascensus

Ascensus is a financial services company that provides retirement, health, and education savings plans to individuals and businesses. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Dresher, Pennsylvania. Ascensus has over 4,000 employees and serves more than 12 million customers nationwide. The company offers a wide range of retirement plan solutions, including 401(k), 403(b), and IRA plans. Ascensus is committed to helping its customers save for retirement and achieve their financial goals. The company has received several awards for its excellent customer service and innovative products.
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Size
4,000 employees
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Founded
1980

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