Role Responsibilities
Quality Delivery
- Partner internally and with clients to execute search and consulting processes, from needs assessment to completion, with the highest level of quality and excellence at every stage
- Deliver a search and consulting strategy applying RRA market intelligence with information gathered about our clients' challenges and strategic goals
- Drive candidate and client engagement by seeking out and establishing new connections
- Enhance the client experience to make a significant impact on the client organization
Market Leadership
- Research and stay up to date on industry trends and thought leadership, translating that into insights and advice relevant to client leadership needs and issues
- Cultivate a reputation internally within RRA as well as externally as an expert in your industry/capability
Client Development
- Throughout the search and consulting process, consistently deliver credible, insightful, impactful, and nuanced counsel to the client
- Deepen and nurture long-term client relationships through the execution of the highest quality work and partnerships
- Participate in a range of valuable business development activities that enhance client relationships
Firm Contribution
- Use the experience and information gained in client work to grow the firm’s intellectual capital and knowledge
- Mentor and develop colleagues in execution best practices in alignment with our culture of apprenticeship and collaboration
- Demonstrate effective team collaboration skills and contribute to a culture of constructive feedback
Candidate Profile
Candidates may come from a variety of backgrounds including, but not exclusively:
▪ Management Consulting
▪ Investment Banking
▪ Leading Fortune 500 Companies
Successful candidates will have a deep understanding of their industry sector. They will bring a demonstrable track record of success and achievement in all previous organizations, and likely have been a top performer relative to their peers. They will likely have worked at organizations with a global reach and mindset. Successful candidates generally have degrees from a superior academic institution and bear graduate degrees.
Interpersonal skills are very important, particularly the ability to impact senior individuals positively and, over time, build strong relationships at the Board level. Listening and presentation skills are crucial. Candidates must be able to build rapport with a variety of different styles and personalities, using empathy, humor and a sense of urgency. Consultant candidates must have strong discipline and delivery skills and be able to focus attention to bring projects to conclusion.
Successful search consultants come from a variety of experiences and paths, but show universal success in driving complex processes, delivering compelling answers, and growing deep relationships.
Specifically, we would highlight the following competencies as essential to the role:
- Driving Results - Rigorously holds oneself and others accountable for achieving high levels of individual and organizational performance.
- Challenge Seeking - Attracted to first-time situations and stretch goals that put their abilities and those of the organization to the test.
- Entrepreneurial Orientation - Quick to seize and capitalize on trends and opportunities.
- Learning Agility - Absorbs new information and the significance of changes in dynamic situations. Has an expansive ability to apply logic and analytical reasoning to handle multi-dimensional problems.
- Tenacity & Determination - Determined in the pursuit of the best for clients, overcoming obstacles and continuously reinventing solutions to drive organizational impact.
- Effective Communication - Highly articulate and able to convey important messages in a clear and compelling manner. Listens and reflects in order to ascertain the best way to communicate both internally and externally.
- Impact & Impression - Generates a strong presence based on bearing, style, words and behavior.
- Developing & Leveraging Relationships - Creates and cultivates internal and external networks of people, utilizing that network to accomplish objectives.
- Emotional Intelligence - Develops insights regarding stakeholder perspectives, paying special attention to professional, personal, and cultural context.
