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HR Consultant

About Marsh McLennan Agency's Midwest Region: Marsh McLennan Agency's Midwest Region is a full-service brokerage providing business insurance, employee benefits, private client insurance, and retirement services to businesses and individuals across the country. MMA Midwest is consistently recognized as a top workplace, attracting and retaining its insurance talent by rewarding expertise and investing in career development. Colleagues enjoy an award-winning culture that fosters a highly productive and results-driven working environment.

A day in the life: As our HR Consultant on the HR Consulting team, you'll engage with clients to assess their needs, develop tailored HR strategies, and implement solutions that drive organizational effectiveness. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals and provide expert guidance on HR best practices.

Our future colleague: We'd love to meet you if your professional track record includes these skills:

• Work with clients as a human resource professional, providing guidance across all lines of HR such as processing payroll, employee benefits, compliance issues, employee relations, performance management and tactical day-to-day HR challenges ensuring all elements are in place for a successful human resource function
• Ability to work with and support senior consultants/staff on projects or HR outsourcing engagements successfully, while also being able to work autonomously
• Ensure consulting standards are performed every day ensuring agendas used at all meetings, HRO standards followed, second level reviews are handled with appropriate personnel, appropriate letter and report format is followed, timely client and internal reporting is met, and other standards as dictated by policy or senior leadership
• 3+ years working in a Human Resource Generalist capacity with several areas of specialties
• Bachelor's degree in business, human resources, or related field

These additional qualifications are a plus, but not required to apply:

• Experience working with Paylocity, Workday, UKG, ADP or similar operation systems is preferred
• HR Certification (PHR, SPHR or SHRM)

We know there are excellent candidates who might not check all of these boxes. Don't be shy. If you're close, we'd be very interested in meeting you.

A Great Place to Work. A Great Place to Perk.

Recognized for workplace culture by the likes of Fortune Magazine, The Chicago Tribune and more, our colleagues enjoy an environment that fosters creativity as well as individual and organizational growth. A small sampling of the benefits our colleagues enjoy include:

• Medical, dental, vision, 401K benefits and more
• The flexibility to work at home or an office, based on your discretion and schedule
• Start with 20 days of paid time off
• A paid day off to volunteer and company-organized volunteer events
• Up to $1,000 per year in matching charitable donations
• Up to $750 per year in wellness rewards
• All the nitro cold brew coffee and sparkling water you can drink
• A company-wide mentality that you can never appreciate your co-workers too much

Who You Are is Who We Are

MMA Midwest has created an award-winning culture largely due to meeting our colleagues where they are, celebrating their differences and building an inclusive environment. We challenge ourselves to create a workplace where our colleagues feel not only welcomed, but feel they belong; where we not only embrace diverse perspectives and opinions but seek them out; and where we ask not how a colleague fits our culture, but what they add to it.

Marsh McLennan and its affiliates are EOE Minority/Female/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity employers.

The applicable base salary range for this role is $71,770.50 to $133,670.25. The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, and education. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.

Applications will be accepted until: December 1, 2026