Executive Assistant, Leadership Consulting

Who We Are

Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) 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 Do

Heidrick Consulting serves as the firm’s leadership advisory arm. We are a team that is passionate about enabling a world better led. 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.

Responsibilities

Client Impact and Engagement

• Full administrative support to Partners/Principals, including travel arrangements, expenses (complying to policy)

• Provide administrative support for the contract / terms and conditions process

  , ensuring timely progression from initiation to signed contract, tracking milestones, escalating delays, and resolving issues.
• Full in-box management to Partners and where capacity assisting Principles
• Setting up and prioritising meetings to include interviews, assessment interviews and videoconferences. Preparation in advance, e.g. workshop materials, logistics, events, printing and binding etc.
• Producing high quality and accurate results in terms of diary management, emails and documents.
• Understand and utilise Latitude where needed, including timesheets, logging campaigns, marketing items
• Understand and utilise Box to manage and save materials appropriately

People

• Provide general office assistance where needed and working as part of a team (EA team and Engagement delivery team where appropriate)
• Acts as a role model i.e. always displaying exceptional values, attitudes and behaviors in accordance with the role
• Demonstrates the values of the Firm
• Displays the highest ethical standards

Firm Building

• Liaise and act as a point of contact between Heidrick & Struggles and clients – maintain and develop key professional relationships.
• Collaborates with other practice groups across Heidrick & Struggles globally
• Become a fully integrated and proactive member of Heidrick Consulting/the practice, understanding its core capabilities and Centre of Excellences (CoE) and taking an active interest in its development

Knowledge

• Attending relevant meetings to understanding partner pipeline and project opportunities along with BD support
• Attending relevant engagement meetings to understand role as part of the client engagement delivery team
• Understand systems including Latitude andPeopleSoft as well as Heidrick Gateway, Box Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and using the Internet for research purposes
• Understands and appropriately uses business templates and branding.
• Understands and complies with HC processes and administration processes

Qualifications

• High school education required; college degree desired
• At least five years of administrative experience in roles requiring strong project coordination
• Demonstrate a business acumen and financial awareness
• Proficient knowledge of all Microsoft Office products. Minimum keyboarding skills of 60wpm. Experience with proprietary database environments, a plus.
• Excellent communication skills—verbal, written and listening
• Experience dealing with people at all levels of an organization, getting and giving often complex and sensitive information in both verbal and written communications
• Professional services experience, a plus