Executive Search Associate - Financial Officers Practice
Heidrick & Struggles
- Chicago, IL
- $70,000-90,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Conducting industry specific and client company research, mapping the executive talent landscape to bring market insights to the table.
- Supporting Consultants in the development of position specification(s) and a focused search strategy.
- Assisting Consultants in preparing business development and candidate assessment documents to present to both prospective and current clients.
- Contacting prospective candidates to elicit interest in client opportunities, obtaining referrals, and/or collecting market intelligence and feedback.
- Assisting Consultants in conducting in-depth interviews to assess candidate qualifications against position specifications.
- Managing candidate relationships throughout the entire life cycle of the search and keeping the Consultant abreast of candidate updates.
- Partnering well across a multitude of stakeholders with the aim of developing productive and trusting relationships with colleagues across the firm.
- Fostering an environment of collaboration; viewed as a team player.
- Acting as a culture carrier; contributes to firm, practice and/or office initiatives.
- Demonstrating self-awareness, humility, empathy, and open-mindedness in the workplace.
- Maintaining the accuracy, quality, and integrity of all Search information in our various internal and external research tools.
- Maintaining status reports and client ready reports for both internal and external presentation(s) to Consultant and Client.
- Managing multiple concurrent projects and completing high quality deliverables on time.
- Acting with the highest regard to professionalism, confidentiality, and ethics.
- Succeeding and persisting through challenges, motivated to do the right thing.
- 3-4 years’ professional experience or a minimum of 2 years transferable recruiting experience.
- An undergraduate BA/BS degree is required.
- Exhibits skill and developing mastery of professional communications, displaying adeptness in writing, articulating, and delivering information with confidence and impact.
- Developing the ability to collaborate effectively with external clients and candidates, and beginning to understand techniques to influence and build positive relationships.
- Prior experience in full life cycle recruiting in Executive Search, Contingent Search or In-House Talent Acquisition, management consulting or other industry requiring applied sales and research skills strongly preferred.
- Experience targeting potential candidates, developing pitch materials and conducting market research.
- Proven success simultaneously managing multiple projects and working across teams.
- Experience identifying market trends and researching information effectively through various channels.
- Ability to analyze, organize and synthesize large volumes of information into insights.
- Experience working with Salesforce or other CRM.
- Demonstrated skill in building and maintaining relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders.