Rewards Services Leader Europe

Rewards Solution Leader — Marsh People & Investments, Europe

Marsh People & Investments, Pan-European & UK remit

• Workforce & Executive Rewards Consulting
• Rewards Products (Compensation Surveys)
• Technology & Technology Partnerships
• Role Context & Market Reality
  
  

Marsh Rewards Solutions (part of Marsh People & Investments / Workforce & Rewards) sits at the intersection of strategic people advisory, data-driven rewards products and solutions, and an increasingly technology- and AI-enabled delivery model. The ideal leader must credibly sell into Rewards Leaders, Compensation & Benefits experts, CHROs, Remuneration Committees and Boards, while also being substantively fluent in the mechanics of the fundamentals of rewards: benchmarking / market pricing, pay structures, job evaluation, job architecture, short- and long-term incentive design, pay equity and fair pay, total rewards strategy etc. They should have a firm understanding of the survey, data and technology infrastructure that underpins modern rewards decision-making. This is very much a hybrid job profile - part commercial leader, part practice and product builder, part technology orchestrator.

• Ideal Candidate Profile
  
  

Experience

• 20+ years in human capital / rewards consulting, with a clear trajectory from individual contributor to practice/P&L leader.
• 10+ years in a senior leadership role — Partner, Managing Director, Practice Lead, or Regional Head — with demonstrable P&L ownership (ideally €75M+ book).
• Pan-European / Global operating model experience — has personally led cross-border teams, not just sold cross-border projects. Comfortable in at least two of: UK, DACH, France, Benelux, Nordics, Southern Europe.
• Client portfolio should include FTSE 100 / DAX / CAC 40 / Euro Stoxx 50 companies, with at least some Board and CEO-level engagement history.
  
  

Domain Expertise (must have depth in at least 2 of 3)

• Workforce Rewards Consulting: broad-based pay structure design, job architecture and grading/job evaluation, fair pay, pay equity and pay transparency advisory, total rewards strategy, short-/long-term incentive design for the broader workforce.
• Executive Rewards Consulting: executive and Board pay governance, Remuneration Committee / Management advisory, incentive plan design and benchmarking, say-on-pay and shareholder engagement, regulatory and disclosure requirements across European and UK markets.
• Rewards Transformation advisory: comp structure harmonisation post-M&A, HRIS/rewards technology implementation adjacencies, workforce planning links to reward strategy.
  
  

Leadership & Commercial Attributes

• Demonstrable revenue origination: has personally sold €3M+ annually across consulting and/or product revenue in rewards.
• Is flexible to travel regularly, to support markets across Europe with BD and sales.
• Has built or meaningfully scaled a practice or product line.
• Track record of leveraging product relationships to build advisory revenue, and of structuring technology partnerships (internal and external) that extend Mercer's offering.
• Credible with CHROs, CFOs, Rewards Leaders, and Remuneration Committee Chairs; comfortable in Boardrooms.
• Can integrate data/tech/AI into traditional consulting and products - Mercer is moving hard on AI-enabled rewards products and platforms.
• Matrix navigator: Marsh People & Investments sits inside Marsh alongside Marsh Insurance, Marsh Re, Oliver Wyman. Candidates allergic to matrix environments will fail here.
• Multilingual preferred (English non-negotiable; German, French, or Dutch as a second language is an advantage for a pan-European and UK remit)
  
  

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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