The Company

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSII) serves the executive talent and leadership needs of companies worldwide as the premier provider of leadership consulting, culture shaping, and executive search services. Pioneering the industry since 1953 Heidrick has provided quality service and built strong leadership teams through its relationships with organizations around the world. We help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time™.

The Consulting Practice

We work in partnership with our clients to accelerate performance at the organization, team and individual leader levels. We enable our clients to mobilise, execute and transform with agility in a fast moving, uncertain and volatile business landscape. Our ambition is to shape the world’s thinking on the leadership and boards of organisations. We bring hard facts to the ‘soft stuff’ through empirical discipline. Whether a company is undergoing a significant transformation or needs to align its leadership strategies to its business aspirations, our Consulting Practice offers integrated world class solutions proven to accelerate performance.

We do this in four main arenas. We accelerate strategy by making responses to the environment better informed and more agile. We accelerate organisations by ensuring they are able to mobilise, execute and transform with agility. We accelerate teams and boards by ensuring that they are able to execute at pace and across boundaries. And we accelerate leaders and board members by assessing and developing the capacity of individuals.

The global practice operates in three regions (Americas, Europe and Asia). We are building an extraordinary place to work for talented professionals, creating a true meritocracy in which expertise speaks louder than hierarchy, investing in building world-class skills, relationships and insights and practicing what we preach. It is a great time to join and grow with us.

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

Our Value Proposition for You

We Take Pride in our Organizational Culture…

…having a culture built on trust, collaboration, coaching, and support . Our roots are in finding people the job where they are at their best and we incorporate this philosophy in our culture, striving to provide a place where our employees can be their best every day.

We Deliver High Impact Work…

…focused on solving important organizational, culture, and leadership challenges and making a visible difference in our client organizations , working with top leadership , and fostering long-term relationships with clients. Our consultants work on a variety of projects, across a diverse set of clients , having significant ownership and autonomy over how work is delivered , all the while getting competitively remunerated benchmarked with the best in business

We Walk the Talk on Employee Wellbeing…

…through active workload management , travel when needed , creating opportunities for social and wellness activities, offering flexible working arrangements , providing competitive rewards and benefits, all to allow team members to achieve work life harmonization and a sustainable consulting career .

We are Entrepreneurial and Agile…

…providing the opportunity for consultants at all levels to be involved in business development, client management, improving internal ways of working, and being an owner in the growth trajectory of Heidrick Consulting .

The Position

The main role of the Consultant is to support Principals and Partners in their business development and delivery.

You will be asked to develop consulting solutions as part of client engagements, to write proposals and support business development activities, and to act as engagement manager on specific workstreams within projects. You will be expected to assure that your workstream is in place according to agreed project plans and milestones and that deadlines are executed against. You should be able to pro-actively highlight issues, (for example with stakeholders or when findings are inconsistent). Specifically, you will be responsible for identifying issues, forming hypotheses, designing and conducting analysis, and then synthesizing conclusions into recommendations. Throughout an engagement, you will be involved in discussions and presentations with senior client leadership and you will work closely with Principals and Partners to shape the analysis, draw insights and prepare materials for clients.

As your role progresses, you will begin to lead, manage, and own problem-solving efforts on a large portion of a client engagement or to lead on smaller engagements.

The role will be based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Accountabilities

• with clients to determine their requirements and either lead or support on delivering to them
• a range of consulting solutions across service offerings to meet client needs throughout the consulting cycle, drawing on knowledge of the clients’ needs, Heidrick Consulting products and tools, own ideas and external best practice
• and analyse client data, drawing on a range of best practice problem solving skills to identify themes and insights
• compelling reports, presentations and other client deliverables to achieve maximum client impact
• to the writing of proposals, completion of tender documents and the mobilization of projects once won
• projects plans (in conjunction with Engagement Leader for larger projects) and help report to clients on progress
• and prioritize own work and ensure deadlines are met. Manage own workload to cope with peaks in demand ensuring all deadlines and quality standards are met
• to thought leadership by supporting the development of products and tools and documenting methodologies
• closely with Engagement leaders, Partners and Principals to support the delivery of large scale projects, prepare for workshops, document workshop outputs and liaise with clients to organize logistics
• develop self to build own capability to support a broad range of consulting activity

Key Metrics

• utilization of ~60%
• of deliverables produced on time and to requirements
• of projects on time, to quality and on budget
• to Firm initiatives
• personal growth and development

Qualifications& Experience

• in people, organisations and behaviour
• degree is required; Business, Economics, Finance, Psychology, or other numerate discipline. An MBA or other relevant Masters degree is preferred
• years of work experience in a business environment, with 3 years in a management or leadership consulting environment
• ability to drive an efficient process throughout a project including setting and executing against deadlines
• analytical skills coupled with verbal ability (both written and spoken)
• proficient in PowerPoint and advanced Excel
• to travel locally and globally as required
• of working in the UAE or GCC is preferred

Consulting Behaviours

The role requires the following behavioural competencies;

• agility: thinks ahead, analyses and solves problems, is innovative and handles ambiguity
• with excellence: is driven, proactive and self-directed and results focused; sets high standards for self and for others
• and engage clients and stakeholders: influences the thinking of clients and stakeholders by connecting, adapting own style and optimising personal impact
• talent and teams: leads and develops teams and individuals to achieve the highest levels of performance and grow Leadership Consulting capabilities
• demonstrates foresight, adaptability, resilience

Key Skills and Expertise Areas

• Core consulting skills relating to the position and accountabilities are required. These include;
• Business acumen/client impact
• Domain knowledge and experience in one of the following; (organization and operating model design, change management, team and leadership assessment and development, culture acceleration)
• Project delivery
• Engagement management
• Consulting skills (including structuring, problem solving and client management)