Associate, Leadership Advisory Services

Leadership Advisory Services practice

Position summary

Client-facing responsibilities

• Supports business development, pitch preparation, and new business pitches; participates in stakeholder calls with board members and other key stakeholders.
• Helps develop client communications, engagement plans, position descriptions, capability models, interview guides, and deliverables.
• Assists with cultural assessment tools and conducts structured capability-based interviews and internal and external 360 referencing interviews.
• Synthesizes assessment data and prepares integrated reports on candidate strengths, potential, and development priorities.
• Contributes to client presentations, communicates assessment findings, drafts executive feedback reports, and supports feedback sessions and development plans.

Engagement management

• Helps plan and manage engagement lifecycles with internal and external stakeholders across time zones and geographies.
• Develops engagement plans and timelines, anticipates next steps, and communicates progress at agreed intervals.
• Builds working relationships with colleagues and manages large volumes of information with rigorous attention to detail and personal organization.

Practice building

• Contributes to advisory and assessment product development, process improvement, and local, practice, and firm-wide initiatives.
• May provide feedback on existing tools, help develop proprietary assessment tools, analyze business processes, and support due diligence.
• Participates in or facilitates training and product rollouts and engages Search colleagues to build understanding of advisory services.
• Contributes intellectual capital and aggregates practice information for colleagues.

Ideal experience and qualifications

• Three or more years in relevant leadership consulting, advisory, or professional services, or five or more years in corporate HR focused on talent development.
• Demonstrated interest in organizational development, organizational psychology, or behavioral psychology.
• Superior business writing skills and general business acumen.
• An undergraduate degree from a highly competitive university is required; an advanced degree is preferable.
• Excellent written and spoken English and Arabic; additional languages are advantageous.
• Executive-level client interaction or experience is advantageous but not required.

Leadership capabilities

• Drives results by working toward goals, overcoming obstacles, checking work against quality standards, and monitoring progress.
• Collaborates and influences by engaging others, using their perspectives, adapting communication, and maintaining contacts.
• Demonstrates a client-focused approach through responsiveness, sound process, timely service, and proactive attention to client concerns.