About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced reward or people advisory professional looking to take on greater responsibility, work directly with clients, and contribute to the delivery of high-impact consulting projects across the UK and EMEA. This is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work both virtually and from our London office.
Responsibilities
- Understand client business challenges and help shape practical talent and reward solutions aligned to business strategy.
- Analyze and interpret market trends, compensation data, and workforce insights to develop evidence-based recommendations for clients.
- Lead project workstreams independently, producing high-quality client-ready deliverables with limited oversight.
- Build and manage client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor throughout project delivery.
- Facilitate client meetings and presentations, communicating complex concepts clearly to a range of stakeholders, including senior leaders.
- Manage day-to-day project delivery, coordinating activities across multiple stakeholders and ensuring projects remain on track.
- Contribute to proposal development, thought leadership, and broader business development activities, including leading sales conversations.
- Coach and support junior team members, sharing technical expertise and best practices.
- Stay up to date with developments in reward, pay transparency, job architecture, AI in workforces, strategic workforce planning, and wider people strategy trends, identifying opportunities for innovation and growth.
- Ensure work is delivered to a high standard, within agreed timelines and budgets.
Requirements
- 4–5 years of experience within reward consulting, management consulting, HR consulting, or an in-house HR, Rewards, People Analytics function.
- Demonstrable experience supporting the design and implementation of reward, compensation, job architecture, pay transparency, workforce strategy, or broader talent-related initiatives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with advanced Excel capabilities and experience working with complex datasets.
- Experience developing client-ready reports, presentations, and recommendations for a range of stakeholders, including senior leaders.
- Strong project management skills, with experience managing multiple workstreams and competing priorities.
- Proven ability to build effective client relationships and confidently engage with stakeholders.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex information clearly and concisely.
- Experience working within a consulting environment and contributing to business development activities would be advantageous.
- A proactive, collaborative, and commercially minded approach, with a strong focus on delivering client value.
Skills
- Advanced Excel capabilities
- Understanding and usage of AI models and LLMs would be an advantage
- Strong project management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Virtual
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Consultant
Benefits
- Flexibility
About the Company
- Aon is in the business of better decisions.
- At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.
- As an organisation, we are united through trust as one inclusive team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.
- The Talent Advisory Team is part of the wider Talent Solutions practice.
- We partner with our clients and support them in developing new talent and reward approaches tailored to their particular business, operating model and culture.
- Our main service areas focus on total reward strategy, employee value proposition (EVP) design, future skills, organisation and workforce transformation, HR M&A, culture alignment, job architecture and levelling, and the design of reward programmes including base pay, annual incentives, sales incentives and performance management frameworks.
- We provide invaluable advice to companies during some of the most exciting and crucial moments in their growth and evolution – including carve-outs, transformation programmes and M&A scenarios, where we help create, align and integrate talent and reward processes in a way that supports the aspirations of the business.
- As part of Aon, we are able to draw on some of the leading expertise in the market across areas including reward analytics, benefits, pensions, workforce strategy and people advisory.
- Our clients range from fast-growing start-ups to some of the world's largest and most recognised brands.
- While this role is UK-based, you will be part of a wider EMEA Advisory Team and will have opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across regions on a diverse range of client projects.
- This is an opportunity to join a highly regarded and growing team at the forefront of reward and people advisory.
- You'll work on high-profile projects, develop your consulting skills, collaborate with talented colleagues across the globe, and help clients solve some of their most important people challenges.
