Senior Consultant- Executive Search

Job Description

Cielo Search Solutions is a global team so you will have the opportunity to work on a number of different industries and skill sets so you are guaranteed to have unique requests from week to week and no day will be the same!

Responsibilities

• This is a function aligned to a partner or number of partners and requires to work both in the central office and on client site/s when required.
• Project Management - External and internal stakeholder engagement.
• Management and direction of the total delivery team.
• Define the search or project specification. Create job descriptions, message to market and confidentiality process (if applicable) to be approved / signed by the client.
• Creation of internal scripts for ‘market insight’ on each project.
• Complete assessment and qualification of candidates from long list to shortlist.
• Creation of content rich, high quality reports and candidate profiles.
• Review and engagement meetings during the process.
• Identification and escalation of any risks to the project prior to timeline expectations.
• On-boarding - Post project client engagement.
• Overall quality control for each stage of the project both internally and externally, including full compliance and usage of internal systems (Clockwork).

Assessment of candidates:

• Competency based and skills based interviews. Personal or in depth phone interviews (depending on location).
• Preparation of detailed candidate reports and shortlist presentation.
• Evaluation to criteria, experience, cultural, compensation, relocation, achievement, parameters of acceptance, etc.
• Acting as broker between partner and candidate at offer stages.
• Management of resignation and candidate follow up to placement.
• Post placement follow up and report at 3 , 6 and 12 months (retention)
• Keeping an accurate and completed record of all activities undertaken, on the in-house systems, according to internal processes.
• Present a business case at senior levels both with candidates and partners.
• Engagement and Business Development.
• Account management that will grow revenues and remit within partners globally.
• Analyze the commercial business needs of our partners and advise how we can strengthen this proposition.

Qualifications

You will need the following:

• At least 10 years experience of senior stakeholder and client relationship management, including directing small teams.

• At least 5 years in and end to end talent acquisition role, including retained Executive Search.

• Experience in writing insightful profiles and reports.

• Demonstrable experience on working within tight timescales and high demand clients or environments.

• Demonstrable experience on being the ‘trusted advisor’.

• Strong external networks and understanding of best practice.

• Influencing and negotiating, being able to quickly build robust relationships based on trust and confidence with a proven track record in delivering results that benefit the customer’s business objectives.

• Effective project management skills.

• Proactively increases own knowledge and commercial awareness whilst keeping abreast of new innovations in attraction methodologies.

• Ability to produce and analyse data, identify opportunities and using data to drive decisions.

• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyse complex situations conceptually and provide workable solutions to a variety of stakeholders.

• Customer focused. High candidate & client focus, lateral thinker, problem solver, able to work independently with chance to use own initiative.

• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential. Fluency in one other language is ideal but not essential.

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

• Additional information

• Are you ready to accelerate your career?

• Join Cielo as a Principal Consultant! A career at Cielo will give you the opportunity to work with the industry’s smartest people and to take ownership of your success!

• Cielo is a brand that reflects our big idea – that talent is rising – and with it our opportunity to rise above. We create careers for ambitious people by moving beyond traditional assumptions of what it means to work in talent acquisition.

• Cielo Search Solutions is a global team so you will have the opportunity to work on a number of different industries and skill sets so you are guaranteed to have unique requests from week to week and no day will be the same!

• Responsibilities This is a function aligned to a partner or number of partners and requires to work both in the central office and on client site/s when required.

• Project Management

• External and internal stakeholder engagement.

• Management and direction of the total delivery team.

• Define the search or project specification.

• Create job descriptions, message to market and confidentiality process (if applicable) to be approved / signed by the client.

• Creation of internal scripts for ‘market insight’ on each project.

• Complete assessment and qualification of candidates from long list to shortlist.

• Creation of content rich, high quality reports and candidate profiles.

• Review and engagement meetings during the process.

• Identification and escalation of any risks to the project prior to timeline expectations.

• On-boarding - Post project client engagement.

• Overall quality control for each stage of the project both internally and externally, including full compliance and usage of internal systems (Clockwork).

Assessment of candidates:

• Competency based and skills based interviews. Personal or in depth phone interviews (depending on location).
• Preparation of detailed candidate reports and shortlist presentation.
• Evaluation to criteria, experience, cultural, compensation, relocation, achievement, parameters of acceptance, etc.
• Acting as broker between partner and candidate at offer stages.
• Management of resignation and candidate follow up to placement.
• Post placement follow up and report at 3 , 6 and 12 months (retention).
• Keeping an accurate and completed record of all activities undertaken, on the in-house systems, according to internal processes.
• Present a business case at senior levels both with candidates and partners
• Engagement and Business Development.
• Account management that will grow revenues and remit within partners globally - Analyse the commercial business needs of our partners and advise how we can strengthen this proposition About you.

Skills/Experience you will need the following:

• At least 10 years experience of senior stakeholder and client relationship management, including directing small teams.
• At least 5 years in and end to end talent acquisition role, including retained Executive Search - Experience in writing insightful profiles and reports.
• Demonstrable experience on working within tight timescales and high demand clients or environments.
• Demonstrable experience on being the ‘trusted advisor’.
• Strong external networks and understanding of best practice.
• Influencing and negotiating, being able to quickly build robust relationships based on trust and confidence with a proven track record in delivering results that benefit the customer’s business objectives.
• Effective project management skills.
• Proactively increases own knowledge and commercial awareness whilst keeping abreast of new innovations in attraction methodologies.
• Ability to produce and analyse data, identify opportunities and using data to drive decisions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyse complex situations conceptually and provide workable solutions to a variety of stakeholders.
• Customer focused. High candidate & client focus, late