Consultant - Culture & Employee Engagement Communications

Consultant Role

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 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.

Heidrick Consulting serves as the firm's leadership advisory arm. We are a team that is passionate about enabling a world better led. The Consultant role is the second level of our consulting career path and provides the opportunity to grow with one of the fastest growing leadership consultancies specializing in accelerating the performance of leaders, teams and organizations. In this role you will continue to learn and deepen your consulting skills by working as part of talented project teams. Your contributions will expose you to leaders across a variety of industries and geographies. From the beginning, you will be part of the client conversation your ideas and contributions will be essential to shaping the outcome of our work.

We are looking for a person passionate about helping organizations drive performance by solving their talent and culture challenges. This candidate is a collaborative, creative thinker and doer who pushes conventional boundaries to deliver extraordinary work that makes meaningful impact for our clients. Experience with employee engagement, internal communications, content creation and working with creative teams would be ideal.

The purpose of the Consultant role is to drive quality analysis and insights within your assigned projects. Your work will involve gathering, interpreting and presenting information in an impactful and compelling way to help drive client insights and engagement delivery.

Role Responsibilities :

• Supporting Partners, Principals, Engagement Leaders in the delivery and may act as primary client liaison
• Preparing project plans, tracking progress and preparing client reports
• Facilitating and working with client teams with a client first mindset, managing and designing client sessions
• Designing a range of consulting solutions, communications, creative assets, reports and other deliverables that meet client needs
• Taking responsibility and ownership over assigned work, proactively managing to completion
• Ensuring work is "client ready" (e.g. error free, aligned with expectations, ready to be shared with client) and actively managing expectations with team (especially during any draft-revision processes)
• Achieving target utilization of 70%
• Leading project work streams under guidance of Partner or Principal
• Coaching and mentoring Analysts and Interns
• Working alongside and collaboratively with our creative team
• Building and maintaining relationships with colleagues across Heidrick & Struggles
• Collaborating with both our support organization and that of the client to keep work on track
• Planning and prioritizing work ensuring team deadlines and quality standards are met
• Developing and maintaining professional presence and behavior
• Interacting with the client team, is aware of own impact
• Building personal reputation as a trusted and respected team player (via work quality and behavior)
• Acting as a role model, operating at the highest ethical standards, living the firm's values
• Contributing to proposals (informing content / design / pricing / timelines and activities, pulling relevant case studies and IP) and mobilizing 'won' initiatives
• Developing relationships with individual clients and building networks
• Contributing to internal initiatives, supporting the ongoing improvement of the business and employee experience
• Building and sharing reusable, client ready materials, insights (including case studies) and project learnings
• Contributing to thought leadership and supporting the development of product, tools, and methodologies
• Actively develops self with a learning mindset to build own capability to support a broad range of consulting activity

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Pay Range Guidelines for this Position :

The salary range for this position is 92000 USD to 120000 USD. Compensation is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience and skills. In addition to your salary, Heidrick & Struggles offers discretionary bonuses (subject to eligibility requirements) and a comprehensive benefits package including : medical, dental, vision, disability leave, parental leave, paid time off and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Note : we have a location based compensation structure; there may be a different range for candidates in other locations.

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.