Consultant, People Consulting

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.

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Our Values

Our global network of search professionals and leadership consultants are guided by five primary values serving as the firm's foundation. These five values build on the principles that have guided the actions of the people of Heidrick & Struggles for more than 60 years. They have led us to success, earning the respect of both our peers in the industry and leaders of the organizations we serve. These values will continue to be at the core of everything we do to help our clients build the best leadership teams in the world.

Respect and Value Each Individual – We foster a safe, secure and healthy workplace, promoting equal opportunities and advance diversity and inclusion.

Win as One Firm – We work as one firm and succeed through collaboration, inclusion and valuing diverse points of view.

Grow with Our Clients – Our clients inspire us to create innovative solutions and exceed expectations.

Own the Results – We work to make things happen and own the outcome.

Always Act with Integrity – We operate at the highest levels of ethics and integrity in all we do.

Our Value Proposition for You

We bring an equal passion for people and problem-solving…

Organizational success starts with understanding people: What motivates them? What unlocks their potential? What obstacles stand in their way? We challenge ourselves constantly to produce more empathetic, evidence-based answers, which we put to the test with our own culture.

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.

We hire individuals who demonstrate curiosity, resilience, and creativity in problem-solving. Our most successful hires combine those qualities with a genuine passion for people. They thrive in our welcoming, inclusive, and diverse culture. And no matter which career path they take, they enjoy the right balance of freedom, responsibility, and support as they chart their course.

The Position

The main role of the Consultant is to be end-end responsible for his/her workstream(s) including data gathering, interviews, analysis, insight generation, synthesis of recommendations, report writing and presentation to clients.

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 apart from Engagement Leader 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 either New Delhi / Mumbai.

Accountabilities

• Liaise with clients to determine their requirements and either lead or support on delivering to them
• Design a range of consulting solutions across service offerings to meet client needs
• Gather and analyse client data
• Prepare compelling reports, presentations and other client deliverables
• Contribute to the writing of proposals, completion of tender documents and the mobilization of projects once won
• Prepare projects plans (in conjunction with Engagement Leader for larger projects) and help report to clients on progress
• Contribute to thought leadership by supporting the development of products and tools and documenting methodologies
• Working 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

Key Metrics

• Expected utilization of ~60%
• Quality of deliverables produced on time and to requirements
• Delivery of projects on time, to quality and on budget
• Contribution to Firm initiatives

Qualifications & Experience

• Interest in people, organisations and behaviour
• Undergraduate degree is required. An MBA or other relevant Masters degree is preferred
• 5+ years of work experience in a business environment, with 3 years in a management or leadership consulting environment
• Demonstrated ability to drive an efficient process throughout a project
• Strong analytical skills coupled with verbal ability (both written and spoken)
• Willingness to travel locally and globally as required

Consulting Behaviours

• Thinking agility: thinks ahead, analyses and solves problems, innovative and handles ambiguity
• Driven, proactive, self-directed and results focused; sets high standards for self and others
• Influences the thinking of clients and stakeholders by connecting, adapting own style and optimising personal impact
• 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)

Heidrick & Struggles is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring qualified protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, or citizenship status.