Position Title: Executive Search Consultant

Location: 100% Work From Home!

Reports To: CEO

Salary: £40,000 + 

 

About Our Client:

Our client is a privately owned executive search firm exclusively focused on providing
executive talent into private equity backed software companies undergoing major
transformation and growth. They provide resourcing, research and advisory services to their clients across all sectors, borders, and time zones.

In a business sector that has built its reputation upon bringing superior skills to accelerate
value creation, it is critical to identify a leadership team with a strong execution mindset
and fundamental understanding of the pace and timing of private equity. With a typical
investment period of 3 to 5 years, they understand that life at a private equity portfolio can
be highly demanding and is often uncompromising in its requirement for detail.

They work closely with their clients to develop deep and meaningful knowledge of their
organisational structure, business strategy, challenges, culture, and values. They are
passionate about client excellence, always striving to provide the best advice and
solutions to their clients and representing them with the highest level of professionalism in the marketplace. They align themselves with their clients’ philosophy and work relentlessly to ensure that their clients make the best appointment whilst also minimising their time and cost spent hiring.

They deliver the best talent through their strong research led approach and utilise their
extensive global professional network. The person mandated manages every aspect of the
search and is personally accountable to their client in delivering the successful and high
quality outcome.

 

Job Purpose: 

To generate revenue for our client by helping to win new clients and delivering their
service to the world class standards they, our clients and our candidates expect.

 

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Research and provide support in meetings with target clients (pre instruction)
  • Take client briefing calls and meetings, take full job descriptions, agree key role
    criteria and client process.
  • Manage the day-to-day relationship with the customer and maintain oversight
    and ownership of the entire customer lifecycle from instruction to successful
    completion and candidate onboarding.
  • Act as primary focal point for client senior management and develop strong, long
    term relationships.
  • Monitor Search deliverables against plan and address any project shortfalls.
  • Ensure that all client documentation including Engagement Letters, Statement of
    Works (SOW), Search Reports, Candidate Reports and company literature is of a
    high standard, consistent and issued to clients within the agreed timeframes.
  • Identify and target candidates for client assignments by utilising resources
    available on the internet such as LinkedIn, company websites, delegate lists,
    white papers etc.
  • Manage the whole candidate experience, to our clients standard process
    through to candidate starting on site
  • Maintain and administer the business database including client and candidate
    records ensuring full adherence to minimum data standards.

 

Skills & Experience:

  • Minimum of three years working in a high quality contingent or executive search
    business with business development and delivery experience, including a process
    driven approach to work.
  • Highly desirable to possess a research-based degree
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Proficient in the use of MS office including PowerPoint, excel and word.
  • Excellent spoken and written English
  • Desirable to have experience within SaaS, software or technology sectors