Senior Associate | Executive Search

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Senior Associate | Executive Search

• Search & placement of executive leadership across a wide array of industries
• Great Place to Work Award 2023, 2024
• Australia’s Best Workplaces for Women Award 2023
• Competitive, tailored compensation package bonus flexible work options

Join Forbes' #1 Best Executive Recruiting Firms 2023 today as a Senior Associate and play a vital role in our continued business growth.

We are actively seeking a commercially minded, professional and engaging Senior Associate to join the high-performing Sydney based team of our APAC Executive Search practice.

Robert Half Executive Search (RHES) is a well-established division of the NYSE-Listed firm Robert Half, one of the first and largest staffing professional services firms in the world. RHES has recently earned the top spot of America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms. This is a testament to the confidence clients have in our Managing Directors, Associates, and wider execution teams as well as the way Robert Half was able to turn the closed doors of the pandemic into opportunities for new growth.

RHES is proud to have nurtured a very loyal and varied client base across all sectors, from start-ups to established ASX-Listed businesses and everything in between. Our talented teams execute on C-Level search mandates across all functions of an organisation including Executive Leadership, Finance, Information Technology, Sales and Marketing, Legal and Human Resources.

The Role

The role of Senior Associate within our firm is challenging, diverse and intellectually stimulating. The successful individual will directly support one of our tenured Managing Directors in consort with a collaborative wider team of Associates, Research and Search Coordinators.

The Senior Associate role is highly visible both internally and externally and will be pivotal in driving all aspects of the search process, managing the execution and direction of research; search strategy development; position specification development; headhunting and candidate development; candidate interviewing, evaluation, and presentation. An integral part of this role is relationship management with both clients and candidates, including an inherent ability to build strong relationships with senior executives, assessing them against the client's requirements.

Further specific responsibilities of the role will include:

• Project management of search mandates from taking the brief to shortlist presentation.
• Create the search positioning strategy in collaboration with the wider execution team.
• Identify prospective candidates through targeted company research, market mapping, industry sources, relevant prior searches, and internal sources.
• Conduct industry-specific research from primary and secondary sources; actively question to gather information from the client, Managing Director, and marketplace to gain a comprehensive understanding of the industry, business situation and the position requirements.
• Write detailed position descriptions and marketing materials to promote the opportunity to prospective candidates.
• Write position advertisements when necessary.
• Proactively approach prospects utilising various channels including cold calling to entice them to consider new opportunities.
• Conduct in-depth phone screening to pre-qualify prospective candidates according to the client’s requirements to create a longlist. 
• Calibrate candidates with the client to further test and hone the search parameters.
• Conduct in-depth face-to-face interviews to evaluate prospective candidates against key functional and behavioural competencies.
• Maintain progress, status, and market feedback reports for presentation to the Managing Director as well as to the Client.
• Write candidate reports for presentation to the client with the shortlisted candidates.
• Maintain the accuracy, quality, and integrity of all search information in the database.

Who you are:

The successful individual will be a degree qualified, collegiate and professionally confident Senior Associate (or similar) within a domestic or international Executive Search Business. We would also like to hear from you if you are a tenured recruiter who has spent most of their career placing C-Level executives either in-house or into a variety of external clients. 

You will have outstanding organisational, project and time management skills and a desire to provide all stakeholders with excellence in client service. You have a high attention to detail and the ability to build substantial and meaningful relationships with C-Level candidates and clients, providing advice and direction along the way. Your ability to effectively source, approach and engage with senior prospects will be a critical success factor.

Some of the competencies necessary for success in this role include:

• Able to effectively context-shift between strategic thinking and hands-on detailed work.
• Advanced verbal communication skills with the ability to proactively engage and interview executive level candidates.
• Strong organisational, critical thinking, analytical, planning and project management skills.
• Advanced written English skills.
• Display high EQ and a curiosity of thought.
• Able to use data-driven insights to pivot in search strategy.
• Collaborative team player.
• Able to build credibility and trust quickly with various internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent networking skills.

What we offer you 

A competitive remuneration package comprising base super annual bonus, plus various company & wellness benefits, numerous progressive HR policies regarding parental leave, a hybrid working style & flexibility, access to various Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) employee network groups both locally and globally.

This role is based in the Sydney CBD.

Let’s have a conversation.

If you are looking for a career, not just a job. If you're ambitious and want to be successful both personally and as part of a successful group of people across the world - we'd love to hear from you!