Senior Consultant- Executive Search

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.

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.

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!

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