Director / Senior Director, Compensation Consultant (Work from Anywhere) at Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC in New York, New York

Job Description:

Seeking Director/Senior Director, Compensation Consultant

The Opportunity:

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global professional services firm specializing in performance improvement and business advisory services. A&M delivers specialist operational, consulting, and industry expertise to management and investors seeking to accelerate performance, overcome challenges, and maximize value across the corporate and investment lifecycles. Founded in 1983, the firm is known for its distinctive restructuring heritage, hands-on approach, and relentless focus on execution and results.

A&M's Compensation & Benefits practice is currently seeking a Director/Senior Director with key expertise dealing with sales compensation and broad-based compensation benchmarking and design. The ideal candidate will work with our team of professionals to advise companies of all sizes on various compensation matters, with specific responsibilities related to compensation benchmarking, broad-based salary grades, sales and incentive compensation, and executive compensation. When you join us you will gain unique experiences and valuable knowledge working across capabilities, sectors, and geographies, and have the opportunity to take control of your career progression.

Primary Responsibilities Include:

• Provides guidance on compensation programs and practices, including job benchmarking, salary structure design, job architecture, short- and long-term incentive plan design


• Evaluates sales compensation plans, including benchmarking, sales/commission plan design, modeling financial impacts, plan implementation and employee communications


• Participates in multiple executive compensation engagement types including benchmarking and/or designing base salary, annual incentives, long-term incentives, executive-level retirement, and deferred compensation programs for a diverse client base


• Manages client projects from start to finish, translating client needs into analysis and design recommendations across various compensation topics


• Participates in marketing and business development initiatives including support on developing compensation work and methodology approaches and drafting supporting proposals


• Reviews the calculations and work product of peers and junior employees for accuracy and reasonableness

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required


• Bar admission, CPA, or CCP/CECP certification required


• Five or more years of work experience specifically related to compensation


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to articulate complex information, including presenting complex topics in easily understood terms to clients


• Strong analytical skills


• Ability to simultaneously work on and manage several projects and effectively manage deadlines


• High motivation to learn and grow


• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

Compensation Statement:

The total compensation is based on level, years of experience, location, education, certifications, cost of living, and several other factors. The total compensation range is a good faith estimate with non-guaranteed discretionary elements.

Total Compensation Range (inclusive of discretionary annual incentive): Low: $110,000 - High: $300,000

Benefits Summary:

Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 30 per week) are entitled to an allotment of paid time off comprised of vacation, sick, and personal time as determined by their position and length of service.

Diversity & Inclusion

A&M's entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work-guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity-are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity and we foster inclusiveness. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Voluntary Inclusion

It is Alvarez & Marsal's policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters

Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters were engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.