Analyst - Executive Search

Fierra Partners; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Fierra Partners is seeking a motivated Analyst to join a boutique executive search and leadership advisory team. You will work directly with the Managing Partner and consultants on live assignments for international clients, starting with rigorous market research and progressing to executive conversations and client documentation.

You will map markets, identify leaders, and help build analyses that shape searches at the highest level.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate with a strong academic record.
• Ambitious and eager to build a career at the highest levels.
• Genuine interest in people, leadership, and behavioural science is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including confidence to speak with senior executives.
• Meticulous attention to detail and proficiency in PowerPoint, Word and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Conduct rigorous mapping of markets and identify leaders in key sectors.
• Build the analysis that shapes a leadership search for client assignments.
• Engage with senior C-suite executives to understand careers and motivations.
• Produce client-ready documentation that sits at the heart of assignments.
• Learn how governance, leadership, and succession are considered by global boards.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Strong communication

Research skills

Ambition and drive

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Word

Excel

Job description

About Fierra

Fierra is a boutique executive search and leadership advisory firm. We advise Boards and CEOs of the major international consumer businesses on their most senior leadership appointments: Board assessment and succession, CEO and CFO appointments, and the assessment of C-suite leaders across general management and functional specialist roles. We operate at the most prominent level of global commerce, helping determine who leads some of the world's most influential companies.

The firm is new - the experience behind it is not. We pair a depth of credibility with the ambition, energy and freedom to disrupt that only a boutique can offer.

Headquartered in London with a growing presence in Lisbon, we are looking for an exceptional Analyst to work with the Managing Partner and consultants on the thinking behind how Fierra presents itself to the market.

About executive search

Executive search is the discipline of identifying, assessing and securing leaders for the most senior roles in an organisation. When a Board needs a new CEO, or a CEO needs a new CFO, they retain a firm like Fierra to map the market, find and rigorously evaluate the strongest candidates - most of whom are not looking for a move - and advise on one of the most consequential decisions a business makes. It is confidential, intellectually demanding and relationship-driven work at the very top of business.

The role

This is the entry point into executive search at the highest level. You will work directly alongside Fierra's Partners on live assignments for international clients, and you will learn how search at the top of business actually works - not from the sidelines, but by doing it.

You will begin with rigorous research: mapping markets, identifying the leaders who matter in a sector, and building the analysis that shapes a search. As you develop, you will move on to speaking directly with senior C-suite executives - understanding their careers, their motivations and what makes them exceptional - and to helping produce the client documentation that sits at the heart of every assignment. Attention to detail is imperative: our clients are the Boards and CEOs of major businesses, and everything we put in front of them must be excellent.

The breadth of exposure is unusual. You will learn how global businesses think about leadership, governance and succession - directly from the executives running them.

Who we're looking for

• A recent graduate, with a strong academic record
• Very smart, very bright and hugely ambitious - someone who wants to build a career at the highest levels and is prepared to work for it
• Genuinely interested in people: what drives them, how they lead and what makes great leaders. Psychology, sociology, behavioural science or related fields would be a plus
• Curious and interesting, with something about you - we hire for potential and for a real commitment to excellence
• Meticulous attention to detail, and a strong command of PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the confidence to hold a conversation with a senior executive
• A resourceful and creative researcher who enjoys the hunt for information
• Highly fluent in both English and Portuguese; further languages welcome
• Confident with technology, deeply interested in AI, and excited to help us develop new applications of it within the firm

Why this role is genuinely different

• Disproportionate impact. We are a small team, and your contribution will be felt immediately and visibly
• Real influence. The work directly affects the leadership of major international businesses, and through them the wider economy
• Unmatched learning. You will be exposed to industry leaders, board-level conversations and the strategic thinking of global executives in a way that takes most people a decade to access
• International scope. Lisbon office of a London-headquartered firm, with future opportunities for business travel and time working abroad

If you want to start your career somewhere small enough that you matter, but serious enough to shape global business, we would love to hear from you.