Engagement Leader

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Engagement Leader

locationsDubai time typeFull time posted onPosted 14 Days Ago job requisition idR2215065 Heidrick & Struggles is a premier provider of executive search, leadership assessment and development, organization and team effectiveness, and culture shaping services globally. In our more than 60 year history, we have conducted some of the most high-profile C-suite and board-level searches in the world.

Today, we are working with our clients across 29 countries to help them accelerate their performance and respond with agility to new opportunities and challenges in every industry. We continue to raise the bar in serving our clients as trusted leadership advisors, and we are also providing an expanded range of data-driven, tech-enabled tools and platforms across our executive search and consulting businesses.

Managing top talent isn’t just our business. It’s our passion, and we are committed to investing in and developing the careers of our own people.

We look for people with experience from a variety of industries and diverse educational backgrounds who are passionate about partnering with innovative and influential organizations and share our commitment to our purpose – to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.

If you’re ready to start or grow your career with us, learn more about our available opportunities at .

Job Description:

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. 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.

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com.

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…

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 Engagement Lead is to support Principals and Partners in their business development and delivery by managing client engagements through all phases. You will contribute to thought leadership by supporting Partners and Principals with the development of products, tools and methodologies.

The engagement leader will provide leadership on a range of projects, including, leadership assessment and development, team effectiveness and organisational and culture transformation. Coming into the role you will demonstrate strong experience in at least one of these domains, together with interpersonal skills, project management and analytic skills and experience of managing teams. You will have worked in a consulting firm or are able to demonstrate the capability to effectively work with clients independently to a high level of proficiency.

The Engagement Lead role provides the opportunity to grow with one of the fastest growing organization consultancies specializing in accelerating organisation and leadership performance.

The role will be based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Accountabilities

Oversee the delivery of the entire engagement under supervision of Partners or Principals. Ensure all project plans are current and on track as contracted

Coordinate with Partners or Principals and client on a weekly basis regarding scope, insights, recommendations, and progress

Develops client-ready documents, sharp summaries, and articulates clear insights and recommendations

Manage projects within budget and be able to provide budgetary updates
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