Principal - Digital Assessment & Selection

Korn Ferry; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal for Digital Assessment & Selection. This role involves leading major client engagements, driving complex projects, and building strong relationships with senior stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in client-facing roles, showcasing expertise in project management and stakeholder engagement. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact within a global consulting firm, leveraging your skills to enhance client strategies and drive business improvements. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for consulting, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in a client-facing consultative role with proven success.
• Strong stakeholder management and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead major engagements, managing complex projects and teams.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships to ensure retention.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Change Management

Team Collaboration

Job description

Principal - Digital Assessment & Selection

Requisition ID: 21806

Country: Saudi Arabia

Location type: Onsite

State / Province: Ar Riyad

City: Riyadh

About Us

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. Korn Ferry works with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people. Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries.

Korn Ferry Digital is a scaled product business unit within Korn Ferry that develops and sells our suite of talent products and HR technology, supporting clients across six solution areas:

• Organizational Strategy
• Assessment and Succession
• Talent Acquisition
• Leadership and Professional Development
• Sales and Service
• Total Rewards

Our comprehensive talent suite leverages a combination of proprietary talent IP, talent data, analytics and insights to help customers understand their workforce and existing talent gaps, and deliver targeted talent interventions at scale using HR technology.

Purpose of the Position

The purpose of this role is to lead major engagements, achieving clear business impact for client organizations. As an expert-level practitioner, you will support the design of the client solution (often a multi-disciplinary solution) and then execute the delivery of relevant services. This role will interact at a senior level in client organizations; continuously evaluating the client's needs, adjusting the solution as required or identifying additional areas of support that may be needed. The role is also responsible for building and maintaining strong client relationships to retain clients, ensuring future Korn Ferry A&S business, and identifying new opportunities within the client for Korn Ferry KF A&S and other parts of Korn Ferry.

Primary Responsibilities

• Implementation of the A&S Solutions.
• Driving projects within a large, complex program, including managing international, multi-cultural, and virtual cross-functional teams.
• Identify and implement client usage strategy and effectively enable clients utilizing Delivery Implementation Model. Manage the client after implementation to suggest and implement feature improvements to existing business practices.
• Manage relationships with internal clients and act as a business partner to them, building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust, and managing the deployment of appropriate internal and/or external resources to support in delivering business strategy and plans.
• Responsible for retaining clients through strong client relationship management.
• Responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with senior client stakeholders (principally C-suite, VP of HR/OD). Needs a deep understanding of clients’ business needs and strategic objectives and acts as a strategic advisor. Responsible for production and execution of client account plans (linked to US, regional, and/or global account plans where relevant).
• Delivers business and organizational insights, helping clients take action on survey findings, and finds ways to track ROI on business improvements. Takes a lead role in conducting interviews with senior management and other stakeholders, and delivering insightful presentations.
• Support less experienced consultants through mentoring and project-based development and coaching.
• Develop deeper expertise in at least one expertise area and become conversant in Korn Ferry (KF) Digital offerings in order to draw on appropriate practice expertise to provide business solutions, including those that may require inter-service line approaches.

The Candidate

Experience and Professional Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a client facing consultative role.
• Proven success in building and driving projects within a large, complex program, including managing international, multi-cultural, and virtual cross-functional teams.
• Ability to build consensus, create momentum, and work well cross-functionally with other departments and varying levels of management.
• Comfortable partnering with Senior Leaders to drive strategy, planning, and process improvements.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with focus on listening to stakeholder and customer needs.
• Solid process and analytical skills tied with creative thinking and sharp decision-making abilities.
• Strong comprehension skills for understanding needs and concerns while developing and applying solutions.
• Ability to resolve challenging issues.
• Excellent, accurate, and effective oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize and meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and principles.
• Must be team oriented and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Significant personal initiative, high energy with a “can do” attitude and professional drive.
• Proven agility to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
• Exhibit and lead with strong change management skills.
• Must be able to manage complexity.
• Must have strong customer focus.

Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.