Location: Houston, Texas 77042
Work arrangement: Hybrid, minimum three days per week in the office or with clients
Employment: Full-time, permanent
Base salary: $131,000-$200,000 per year
Experience: 8+ years
Relocation: Not available
Visa sponsorship: Not available
The Opportunity
Lead complex compensation consulting engagements and advise senior executives on workforce and rewards strategy. This senior client-facing role combines technical compensation expertise, project leadership, commercial development and hands-on delivery.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead large-scale compensation projects from analysis through recommendations and implementation support.
• Develop compensation strategies, pay philosophies, structures, job architectures and incentive programmes.
• Direct, review and interpret project-team analyses while ensuring consistently high-quality deliverables.
• Advise senior management and HR leaders on competitiveness, attraction, retention and regulatory considerations.
• Manage senior client relationships and coach junior consultants.
• Develop new opportunities, expand existing engagements and support proposals, statements of work, negotiations and successful client acquisition.
• Use compensation technology, survey tools and AI-enabled approaches to improve insight and delivery.
Required Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Finance or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of compensation consulting experience with demonstrable subject-matter expertise.
• Deep knowledge of compensation strategy, pay structures, job architecture, incentive design, market analysis and regulatory compliance.
• Proven success managing complex, large-scale client engagements and advising senior executives.
• Strong business-development capability across lead generation, opportunity qualification, proposals, SOWs, negotiation and closing.
• Excellent communication, presentation, leadership and client-relationship skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint capability.
Preferred Experience
• Experience leading global compensation engagements.
• Familiarity with compensation management, survey management and AI-enabled compensation tools.
• Evidence of innovative solutions or compensation thought leadership.
Benefits and Opportunity
Professional development, supportive leadership, comprehensive benefits, an inclusive consulting environment and a flexible hybrid model.