Strategic Risk and Rewards Project Manager

Company:Mercer

Description:

What can you expect?

Marsh is seeking a strategic, delivery-focused Strategic Risk and Rewards Project Manager to provide project governance, cross-functional coordination, operational execution, and executive visibility for Strategic Risk and Rewards initiatives in the US. This role supports the design, coordination, and delivery of integrated initiatives that connect workforce risks, total rewards, organizational priorities, and business performance.

You will typically manage multiple workstreams simultaneously, partnering with senior stakeholders across Marsh Risk, and Marsh People & Investments. You will help translate strategic priorities into executable plans, maintain visibility into progress and dependencies, and support initiatives that improve workforce resilience, operating effectiveness, and decision-making.

This position will be based in Mexico City (Torre Mayor). It is a hybrid role that requires working at least three days a week in the office.

We will count on you to:

• Drive visibility across Strategic Risk and Rewards initiatives: Maintain comprehensive oversight of active projects, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions to ensure transparency and timely execution.
• Coordinate integrated delivery across workstreams: Partner with cross-functional teams across Marsh Risk, and Marsh People & Investments and subject matter experts to align priorities and support execution of cross business projects.
• Support strategic planning and project mobilization: Help scope, structure, and sequence initiatives that address workforce risk, total rewards, employee experience, and operational effectiveness.
• Prepare executive-ready reporting and governance materials: Consolidate project updates, action items, risks, key metrics, and recommendations into concise materials for leadership review and decision-making.
• Track risks, actions, and interdependencies: Maintain action logs, RAID trackers, and follow-up processes to drive accountability and escalate issues when needed.
• Translate strategy into operational execution: Help convert broad strategic priorities into clear workplans, stakeholder actions, timelines, and measurable outcomes.
• Monitor performance metrics and insights: Review KPIs, project milestones, and performance indicators to identify improvement opportunities, quantify impact, and support continuous improvement.
• Enable collaboration across senior stakeholders: Facilitate alignment across multiple leaders and teams, ensuring decisions, responsibilities, and next steps are documented and executed.
• Support change readiness and implementation: Help coordinate activities that improve adoption, communication, and execution consistency across complex initiatives.
• Contribute to productivity, quality, and business impact: Help teams identify practical solutions that reduce friction, improve operating discipline, and strengthen project outcomes.

What you need to have:

• 6+ years of professional experience in consulting, project management, program management, business transformation, or strategic operations.
• Experience managing multiple complex projects or workstreams with competing priorities and senior stakeholder involvement.
• Demonstrated ability to provide project governance, executive reporting, and portfolio visibility across initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills , including experience preparing materials for senior leadership.
• Experience coordinating work across cross-functional teams , including business, finance, operations, and external or third-party partners.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience using KPIs, dashboards, and performance data to support decisions and track results.
• Experience supporting initiatives involving workforce strategy, total rewards, risk management, organizational change, or business transformation .
• Experience working with US stakeholders and/or US-based leaders or clients
• Bilingual English/Spanish (Only CV's in English will be considered).

What makes you stand out:

• Experience supporting Human Resources, Benefits, Investments and Business Risk consulting projects or similarly integrated initiatives that connect people strategy, business priorities, and risk management.
• Ability to connect project activity to broader business outcomes such as workforce stability, productivity, governance, and decision quality.
• Experience working in matrixed environments with multiple leaders, subject matter experts, and geographically dispersed teams.
• Strong organizational discipline, including proactive follow-through, issue resolution, and executive-level communication.
• Familiarity with total rewards, workforce transformation, employee well-being, or broader people risk topics.

Why this role matters

This role helps strengthen the execution of integrated strategic initiatives at a time when organizations are under growing pressure to improve workforce resilience, manage people-related risk, and connect rewards and people strategies to business results. Marsh research highlights that organizations with more advanced risk maturity outperform peers in managing talent- and workforce-related risks, and that strong communication of employee rewards and benefits, employee listening, succession planning, and strategic workforce planning are all associated with stronger outcomes. Marsh research also notes that leading rewards functions are shifting from administration toward strategic impact by focusing on business metrics, ROI, cross-functional collaboration, and executive engagement. This role is designed to help operationalize that shift.

Mercer is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), 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 about Mercer, visit mercer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.