Who We Are Heidrick & Struggles 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 DoHeidrick Consulting serves as the firm’s leadership advisory arm. We are a team that is passionate about enabling a world better led. The Analyst role is our first step on the consulting career path. In this role Analysts learn the consulting cycle working as part of a talented team leveraging empirical data from diagnostic tools and providing insights through rigorous analysis. Your contributions will expose you to leaders across a variety of industries and geographies. This role provides the opportunity to develop within one of the fastest growing leadership and organization consultancies specializing in accelerating the performance of leaders, teams and organizations.
The purpose of the Analyst role is to support client engagements and product development by researching, gathering, interpreting and presenting complex data in an impactful and compelling way.
The role will support our exciting range of offerings including organizational transformation, team performance acceleration, leadership capability assessment, leadership development, diversity & inclusion and culture shaping. Ideally you will have strong interpersonal skills and have worked in a consulting firm or be able to demonstrate the capability to effectively work with clients.
Role Responsibilities
Client Impact & Engagement:Conducts research, organizes and analyses client data and presents results in a simplified format Organizes and interprets data themes (using qualitative, basic quantitative analytical techniques), driving real insights to support decision making Gathers and analyses client data, drawing on a range of problem-solving skills to identify themes and insights Prepares client output that conveys results in a compelling way Structures interview guides / data collection / surveys with limited guidance Prepare for engaging with clients in meetings and/or second chairing assessments with clients Takes responsibility and ownership over assigned work, proactively managing to completion Ensures work is “client ready” (e.g. error free, aligned with expectations, ready to be shared with client) and actively manages expectations with team during any draft-revision processes Plans and prioritizes own work, ensuring deadlines and quality standards are met Achieves target utilization of 70%
People:Supports team in producing high quality deliverables Works collaboratively with all colleagues across the wider organization (HC and H&S) Develops and maintains professional presence and behaviour Interacts with the client team, is aware of own impact Builds personal reputation as a trusted and respected team player (via work quality and behaviour) Is a role model, operating at the highest ethical standards with clients and team, operating at the highest ethical standards, living the firm’s values
Firm Building:As required, supports the design and roll out of new products/tools Contributes to business development and prepares to execute won initiatives Contributes to internal initiatives, supporting the ongoing improvement of the business and employee experience Demonstrated personal growth and development
Knowledge:Builds and shares reusable, client ready materials, insights (including case studies) and project learnings Contributes to internal or external knowledge development or sharing Has a deep knowledge of one or more HC solutions Proactively develops own learning/ has a learning mindset and contributes across a broad range of client projects Organize and maintain libraries of knowledge collateral, ensuring easy access for users Coordinate the capture of client data and ensure compliance with data regulations. Project management and delivery
What You Bring to the Role0 - 2 years of work experience We welcome candidates with an undergraduate degree, completed apprenticeship, or equivalent practical work experience. Interest in leadership, people, commercial dynamics, organizations and behavior; leads with curiosity – about others, our business, our clients’ businesses High emotional intelligence and people sensitivity; reads situations well, adapts communication style, and builds credible relationships across levels Highly numerate and structured thinking ; possess problem solving and solution-oriented mindset Thinking agility: thinks ahead, analyses and solves problems, is innovative and handles ambiguity well Commercial awareness / business acumen Domain expertise (organisation/team/leadership assessment & development, succession/board advisory, Culture Shaping, D&IHighly proficient in Power Point, Word and advanced Excel Excellent writing skills; can prepare concise and compelling reports Excellent attention to detail Willingness to travel locally and globally as required Arabic - Native speaking and writing proficiency English - Professional speaking and writing proficiency