Executive Search Lead: Healthcare & Life Sciences

Heidrick & Struggles; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 115,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Disability leave

Parental leave

Paid time off

401k contribution

Job summary

Heidrick & Struggles, a leading advisor on executive leadership, seeks a senior recruiter to drive search strategies, map talent landscapes, and prepare client-ready materials. You will engage with candidates, interview rigorously, and present top matches to clients, while maintaining relationships through the full search lifecycle.

The role emphasizes collaboration across stakeholders, ethics, and professional development of junior team members in a client-focused, global firm with

Qualifications

• 6+ years professional experience or a minimum of 5+ years of transferable recruiting experience.
• An undergraduate BA/BS degree is required.
• Demonstrates a refined ability to collaborate with external clients and candidates, and showcasing a track record of successfully influencing to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Research & Writing: Creating effective search strategies and position specifications to present to the client.
• Conducting industry specific and client company research, mapping the executive talent landscape to present market insights to the Consultant/client.
• Preparing business development materials in collaboration with the Consultant to present to prospective clients.
• Contacting candidates to elicit interest in client opportunities, obtaining referrals, and/or collecting market intelligence and feedback.
• Conducting in-depth interviews to assess candidate qualifications and fit to position specifications.
• Writing candidate assessments and presenting qualified candidates to clients.
• Managing candidate relationships throughout the entire life cycle of the search and keeping the Search Consultant abreast of candidate updates.
• Managing client relationships by preparing and presenting status reports to clients.
• Developing market presence and personal brand with candidates and clients as an expert within a specific industry.
• 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.
• Acting as a culture carrier; contributes to firm, practice and/or office initiatives.
• Demonstrating self-awareness, humility, empathy, and open-mindedness in the workplace.
• Developing and mentoring junior Search professionals.
• Owning 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 Search Consultant and Client.
• Leading multiple concurrent projects and completing high quality deliverables on time.
• Acting with the highest regard to professionalism, confidentiality, and ethics.

Skills

Professional communications

Written expression

Verbal articulation

Presentation delivery

Client relationship management

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Heidrick & Struggles, a leading advisor on executive leadership, seeks a senior recruiter to drive search strategies, map talent landscapes, and prepare client-ready materials. You will engage with candidates, interview rigorously, and present top matches to clients, while maintaining relationships through the full search lifecycle.

The role emphasizes collaboration across stakeholders, ethics, and professional development of junior team members in a client-focused, global firm with