Senior Executive Search Associate

ABOUT HEIDRICK & STRUGGLES

Heidrick & Struggles 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 ondemand, 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. Additional information on the firm can be found at

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THE POSITION

Currently, we are expanding our Ukrainian team and are looking for an experienced Senior Executive Search Associate. This role is highly visible with excellent career track potential. Senior Executive Search Associate will cooperate with and assist the Partners in all aspects of the search process including business development initiatives; managing the execution and direction of research; search strategy development; position specification development; candidate development; candidate interviews, assessment and presentation; referencing; and client management. An integral part of an Associate's role is relationship management – networking and building strong relationships with senior executives (as potential candidates or clients) and assessing executives against the client's requirements.

Specific Responsibilities

• Gathers information from Client/Partner, industry research and sources to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Client company, industry and the position requirements.
• Develops position specification and a focused search strategy. Continually refines search strategy based on market or client feedback.
• Researches and identifies prospective candidates through targeted company research, industry sources, relevant prior searches and internal sources.
• Places calls to prospective candidates and sources to elicit interest in the opportunity, obtain referrals, and/or collect market feedback.
• Conducts phone and face-to-face interviews to qualify prospective candidates against position requirements and key competencies.
• Writes candidate assessments and maintains progress reports/status reports/market feedback reports for presentation to the Client.
• Builds strong relationships and good rapport with candidates and sources and stays aware of talent in the marketplace.
• Maintains the accuracy, quality and integrity of all search information in the Heidrick & Struggles proprietary database.
• Maintains post-project relations with both the Placement and the Client.
• Keeps Partners up to date on relevant trends and challenges in the marketplace with regard to business development activities and general market intelligence.

Qualifications and Experience

• The successful candidate will have 3-5 years' experience in executive search or recruitment.
• Advanced English level.
• Ability to develop strong relationships to build an industry network.
• Able to research information effectively through various channels and organize multiple points and large amounts of data into concise targeted information summaries.
• Demonstrate initiative and resourcefulness to develop well-planned strategies and achieve goals within tight timelines.
• Comfortable and competent using technology in a business setting.
• Can leverage the Partner in his/her search work and is comfortable and competent with client contact.
• Ability to manage a demanding search load, balance multiple tasks and switch gears while maintaining priorities.

Personal Attributes and Competencies

• Excellent communication skills: articulate, persuasive and able to communicate difficult and complex matters in a straightforward, transparent manner.
• Strong organizational, analytical, detailed planning and project management skills.
• Ability to maintain professionalism and honesty while building credibility, trust, and respect with both internal and external clients and customers.
• Ability to grasp concepts quickly and think beyond traditional methods to exceed client's expectations.
• Proactive and self-motivated. Action bias with a strong sense of urgency.
• Tenacious: does not give up until results are achieved.
• Strong intellectual capacity: a continuous learner, highly analytical, good conceptual thinking skills.
• Detail-oriented without losing track of the big picture.
• Adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards.