senior Consultant (executive search)Cielo

Overview
Role Purpose
The role of the Senior Consultant is to lead and manage international Executive Search mandates. You will identify, build, deliver and project manage search strategies on behalf of our customers, developing research driven solutions in diverse markets.
Your brief will be to work for our clients, developing new search capabilities in established teams. You will create and run long term recruitment practices, defining search specifications, constantly improving the search process, assessing candidates, producing shortlists, and placing executive talent.
Cielo Executive Search is a global team so you will have the opportunity to work on a number of different industries and skill sets. You are guaranteed to have unique requests from week to week and no day will be the same!
Key Responsibilities
This is a function aligned to a partner or number of partners and requires working 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.
Conduct review and engagement meetings during the process
Identification and escalation of any risks to the project prior to timeline expectations.
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, conducted on video or face to face
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.
Ability to 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
Ability to analyse the commercial business needs of our partners and advise how we can strengthen propositions
Commercially astute - experience of maximising ROI.
Person Specification
Key Experience/Skills
Considerable experience of senior stakeholder and client relationship management, including directing project teams.
Experience in research driven executive search environment.
Writing insightful profiles and reports.
Working within tight timescales and high demand clients or environments.
Strong external networks and understanding of best practice
Able to quickly 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 focussed. High candidate & client focus, lateral thinker, problem solver, able to work independently with chance to use own initiative.
Degree educated or equivalent
Fluency in written and spoken English is essential
Fluency in one other language is ideal but not essential
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
International experience is highly desirable
Key Attributes
Positive Attitude
Learning agility
Resilience
Creativity
Strong Communication skills
Attention to Detail
Inclusive/Open Minded
Strong influencer & negotiator
Strong Stakeholder management
Commercial
Cielo

Manila City, Metro Manila
Permanent
Full-time