Barbara Marder is a Senior Partner of Mercer and is the Global Wealth Products & Solutions Leader. In this newly created role, Barb oversees product development and innovation for Mercer’s Retirement & Investment businesses with the goal to further scale and modernize Mercer’s Wealth Business. Barb will also envision and architect Investments and Retirement product solutions in response to customer needs, including digitally delivered manager research. Most recently Barb led Mercer’s Innovation Hub where she created a new offering for Mercer in the talent acquisition space. Barb led the innovation team from idea generation to product development to commercialization of Mercer’s new offering, Mercer Match. As a result of her innovation work, Barb has been recognized as a thought leader on talent acquisition innovation with a specific focus on new, data-driven Predictive Hiring technologies and gamification. Barb was recognized as a 2017 Top 25 Consultant by Consulting Magazine.
Before this role, Barb led Mercer’s Global Mobility practice and before that she led two global businesses for Mercer’s Retirement segment –Global Defined Contribution Consulting and International Benefits Consulting. Barb has more than 35 years of experience in all aspects of Talent and Retirement programs.