Senior Associate Executive Search
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Senior Associate Executive Search
- Search & placement of executive leadership across a wide array of industries
- Great Place to Work Award
- Australias Best Workplaces for Women Award 2023
- Competitive tailored compensation package bonus flexible work options
Join Forbes #1 Best Executive Recruiting Firms 2023 today as a Senior Associate and play a vital role in our continued business growth.
We are actively seeking a commercially minded professional and engaging Senior Associate to join the highperforming Sydney based team of our APAC Executive Search practice.
Robert Half Executive Search (RHES) is a wellestablished division of the NYSEListed firm Robert Half one of the first and largest staffing professional services firms in the world. RHES has recently earned the top spot of Americas Best Executive Recruiting Firms. This is a testament to the confidence clients have in our Managing Directors Associates and wider teams as well as the way Robert Half was able to turn the closed doors of the pandemic into opportunities for new growth.
RHES is proud to have nurtured a very loyal and varied client base across all sectors from startups to established ASXListed businesses and everything in between. Our talented teams execute on CLevel search mandates across all functions of an organisation including Executive Leadership Finance Information Technology Sales and Marketing Legal and Human Resources.
The Role
The role of Senior Associate within our firm is challenging diverse and intellectually stimulating. The successful individual will directly support one of our tenured Managing Directors in consort with a collaborative wider team of Associates Research and Search Coordinators.
The Senior Associate role is highly visible both internally and externally and will be pivotal in driving all aspects of the search process managing the and direction of research; search strategy development; position specification development; headhunting and candidate development; candidate interviewing evaluation and presentation. An integral part of this role is relationship managementwith both clients and candidates including an inherent ability to build strong relationships with senior executives assessing them against the clients requirements.
Further specific responsibilities of the role will include:
- Project management of search mandates from taking the brief to shortlist presentation.
- Create the search positioning strategy in collaboration with the wider team.
- Identify prospective candidates through targeted company research market mapping industry sources relevant prior searches and internal sources.
- Conduct industryspecific research from primary and secondary sources; actively question to gather information from the client Managing Director and marketplace to gain a comprehensive understanding of the industry business situation and the position requirements.
- Write detailed position descriptions and marketing materials to promote the opportunity to prospective candidates.
- Write position advertisements when necessary.
- Proactively approach prospects utilising various channels including cold calling to entice them to consider new opportunities.
- Conduct indepth phone screening to prequalify prospective candidates according to the clients requirements to create a longlist.
- Calibrate candidates with the client to further test and hone the search parameters.
- Conduct indepth facetoface interviews to evaluate prospective candidates against key functional and behavioural competencies.
- Maintain progress status and market feedback reports for presentation to the Managing Director as well as to the Client.
- Write candidate reports for presentation to the client with the shortlisted candidates.
- Maintain the accuracy quality and integrity of all search information in the database.
Who you are:
The successful individual will be a degree qualified collegiate and professionally confident Senior Associate (or similar) within a domestic or international Executive Search Business. We would also like to hear from you if you are a tenured recruiter who has spent most of their career placing CLevel executives either inhouse or into a variety of external clients.
You will have outstanding organisational project and time management skills and a desire to provide all stakeholders with excellence in client service. You have a high attention to detail and the ability to build substantial and meaningful relationships with CLevel candidates and clients providing advice and direction along the way. Your ability to effectively source approach and engage with senior prospects will be a critical success factor.
Some of the competencies necessary for success in this role include:
- Able to effectively contextshift between strategic thinking and handson detailed work.
- Advanced verbal communication skills with the ability to proactively engage and interview executive level candidates.
- Strong organisational critical thinking analytical planning and project management skills.
- Advanced written English skills.
- Display high EQ and a curiosity of thought.
- Able to use datadriven insights to pivot in search strategy.
- Collaborative team player.
- Able to build credibility and trust quickly with various internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent networking skills.
What we offer you
A competitive remuneration package comprising base super annual bonus plus various company & wellness benefits numerous progressive HR policies regarding parental leave a hybrid working style & flexibility access to various Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) employee network groups both locally and globally.
This role is based in the Sydney CBD.
Lets have a conversation.
If you are looking for a career not just a job. If youre ambitious and want to be successful both personally and as part of a successful group of people across the world wed love to hear from you!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
