Executive Search Associate: Shape Leadership & Placements

Heidrick & Struggles, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Heidrick & Struggles, Inc. is a premier executive leadership advisor with a 70+ year track record.

The Associate role supports Consultants across the recruitment lifecycle, from candidate identification to placement, learning through hands-on experience and mentorship. You will assist in developing position specifications, building candidate pipelines, and supporting business development while collaborating with colleagues around the globe.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years’ professional experience or a minimum of 2 years transferable recruiting experience.
• An undergraduate BA/BS degree is required.
• Developing the ability to collaborate effectively with external clients and candidates, and beginning to understand techniques to influence and build positive relationships.

Responsibilities

• Research & Writing: 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.
• Internal and External Communication: 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.
• Living Our Values: 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.
• Ethics & Quality: 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.

Skills

Professional communications

Relationship building

Interviewing

Team collaboration

Research skills

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Heidrick & Struggles, Inc. is a premier executive leadership advisor with a 70+ year track record.

The Associate role supports Consultants across the recruitment lifecycle, from candidate identification to placement, learning through hands-on experience and mentorship. You will assist in developing position specifications, building candidate pipelines, and supporting business development while collaborating with colleagues around the globe.