Engagement Leader

Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.®

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**Job Description**:
The Engagement Leader role provides the opportunity to develop with one of the fastest growing human capital consultancies specializing in accelerating leader, team and organizational performance. Engagement Leaders are responsible for developing and leading consulting solutions as part of client engagements, acting as project leaders on specific projects, supporting Principals and Partners with client management and supporting business development activities.

In the course of a typical project, you will lead, manage and own problem-solving efforts on a large portion of a client engagement or act as the client lead on smaller engagements. Specifically, you will be responsible for identifying issues, forming hypotheses, designing and delivering solutions and synthesizing conclusions into recommendations. Throughout an engagement, you will be involved in discussions and presentations with senior client leadership.

Accountabilities:

- Design a range of consulting solutions, reports, and other deliverables that meet client needs
- Support (and sometimes lead) delivery of engagements under the guidance of a Principal or Partner
- Develop trusted relationships with key client stakeholders and influencers
- Contribute to delivering a range of consulting solutions across service offerings, drawing on knowledge of the client’s needs, Heidrick Consulting products and tools, insights developed via diagnosis and external best practice to meet client needs
- Support preparation of project plans and team mobilization; report to clients on progress, track project effort against budget and provide input to the preparation of client invoices
- Prepare compelling reports, presentations and other client deliverables to achieve maximum client impact
- Facilitate and work in partnership with client teams; manage and design client meeting agendas
- Plan and prioritize own work to cope with peaks in demand and ensure deadlines and quality standards are met.
- Contribute to thought leadership by supporting senior team members to develop new or enhanced products, tools and methodologies
- Actively develop self to build own capability to support a broad range of consulting services
- Actively give and receive honest feedback to drive learning and performance
- Key contributor to creating new business proposals, supporting the end-to-end business development cycle
- Working collaboratively across the Firm and with Heidrick Consulting, support the expansion of assigned accounts
- Contributes to firm level initiatives (e.g. training, recruitment, ERGs, etc.)
- Develops new and existing relationships across Heidrick Consulting and Executive Search

Key Metrics
- Expected utilization of at least 65%
- Accuracy of insights and quality of deliverables
- Delivery of projects on time and on budget
- Proactive contributions to firm building initiatives and knowledge sharing
- Demonstrated personal growth and development

The Person

Qualifications & Experience
- Interest in leadership, people, commercial dynamics, organisations and behavior; leads with curiosity - about others, our business, our clients’ businesses
- Undergraduate degree is required; Occupational/Organisational Psychology, MBA or other relevant graduate degree preferred.
- 5+ years of work experience in a business environment, with 3 years in a management or leadership consulting environment with regular exposure and engagement with clients.
- Demonstrated ability to drive an efficient process throughout a project including setting and executing against deadlines.
- Highly numerate with excellent report writing skills
- Highly proficient in PowerPoint and advanced Excel
- Fluent English; other language skills a plus
- Willingness to travel locally and globally as required

Consulting Behaviours
- Thinking agility: thinks ahead, analyses and solves problems, is innovative, handles ambiguity and resilient
- Operate with excellence: is driven, proactive and self-directed and results focused; sets high standards for self and for others
- Inspire and engage clients and stakeholders: influences the thinking of clients and stake