Engagement Leader, Leadership Consulting

Who We Are

Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq : HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions.

Heidrick & Struggles (H&S) pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.®

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com .

What We Do

Heidrick Consulting serves as the firm’s leadership advisory arm. We are a team that is passionate about enabling a world better led. The Engagement Leader role is the third level of our consulting career path and provides the opportunity to grow with one of the fastest growing leadership consultancies specializing in accelerating the performance of leaders, teams and organizations. Engagement Leaders are responsible for developing and leading consulting solutions as part of client engagements, acting as project leaders on specific projects, supporting Principals and Partners with client management and supporting business development activities.

In the course of a typical project, you will lead, manage and own problem-solving efforts on a large portion of a client engagement or act as the client lead on smaller engagements. Specifically, you will be responsible for identifying issues, forming hypotheses, designing and delivering solutions and synthesizing conclusions into recommendations. Throughout an engagement, you will be involved in discussions and presentations with senior client leadership.

Role Responsibilities

Client Impact & Engagement :

• Ability to deliver client engagements, supporting Principals and Partners
• Supporting Partner and Principal in project design and staffing requirements
• Leading the preparation of project plans and team mobilization
• Managing projects proactively within the agreed scope and timeline, ensuring project plans are current and on track as contracted
• Actively challenging self and team to deliver highest quality, innovative client solutions
• Developing trusted relationships and client first mindset with key client stakeholders as possible
• Flexibly delivering client work, adapting existing models and processes to client needs
• Achieving target utilization

People :

Firm Building :

Knowledge :

Basic Role Qualifications

Preferred Role Qualifications