Korn Ferry Executive Search – US Hiring For Senior Consultant at Switzerland County, IN Full Time

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About KF Consulting

Korn Ferry’s organizational consulting services target the most critical challenges facing global businesses today: attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining talent, as well as creating the right structures to support that talent.

Our deep expertise spans the talent function from end-to-end. We help businesses develop comprehensive, effective strategies that improve their organizational structures, create attractive rewards and benefits packages, build thoughtful assessment and succession programs, and develop current talent and future leaders.

In sum, we help unleash the power of people to close the Potential Gap: the difference between where you are now and where you need to be to achieve sustainable growth.

About Assessment & Succession

We are searching for a new colleague with a home base in the Talent team who will work in the solution area of ‘Assessment and Succession’

We offer an intense learning environment in which you, together with your colleagues, will deliver top notch performance for our clients. We offer a place to develop continuously, to discover your own goals and values, and to develop your own qualities.

We have a great eye for our people, and we believe in stimulating development through all kinds of trainings, peer mentoring, team intervision and no doubt frequent feedback and coaching on the job.

A company’s growth and success are linked directly to the quality of its people related decisions and leadership:

• We help build professionals and leaders who can solve the business challenges of today and create and execute successful strategies for the future.
• We emphasize development at the individual, team, group, and enterprise levels, prompting progress and forward momentum across the entire organization.
• We tailor development programs for the unique needs of professionals and leaders at all levels of the organization including the C-suite, senior leaders, high potentials, and the frontline.
• We support organization to take decisions around people that are as carefully thought out as any financial or operations strategy.

Our solutions provide organizations with a clear understanding of the talent they need, the talent they have, and how to close the gaps. It enables them to have the right people in the right place at the right time to successfully execute their business strategy.

At Korn Ferry we offer a comprehensive suite of assessment services designed to enhance an organization’s talent selection, development, and succession management capabilities. We use world-class assessment tools and draw on Korn Ferry’s full range of people and organizational capabilities.

The Role

Principal consultants work closely with colleagues to deliver and lead complex, customized and multi work-stream solutions that meet and exceed client expectations. At this level, business development and client relationship management feature as an important focus of the role in addition to delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

Assessment delivery:

• Deliver high quality work that exceeds client expectations. Conduct in-depth interviews, interpret, triangulate, and integrate psychometric data and – where applicable – results of simulations.
• Write feedback reports summarizing key outcomes with bespoke and specific, impactful recommendations for clients and learners. Leverage data analytics insights for meaningful aggregate reports which support clients’ key talent decisions.
• Conduct effective client debriefs and feedback conversations to learners with a business and bottom-line focus.
• Help design high quality assessment & succession solutions. Lead projects or complex work streams from ‘low touch’ to ‘high touch’ assessment solutions.

Client development:

• Contribute to winning profitable business by proposal writing, pricing, shaping opportunities, pitch preparation and opportunity spotting in clients. Assess the needs of large/complex clients, designing and delivering solutions to meet their needs.
• Develop and manage effective client relationships either as a member of an account team or by directly managing accounts including potential key accounts. Contribute to key accounts by project managing work streams and/or leading delivery teams.
• Look for ways to build new client relationships e.g., active networking, asking for referrals, partnering across KF lines of business.
• Lead research, analysis and interpretation on client/sector business issues, performance, client competitor performance etc. with a view to identifying possible opportunities. Leverage insights to define, recommend and/or co-create strategic solutions for the clients.

Go above and beyond assessment

• Explore impact with clients and understand what needs to complement Assessment & Succession solutions. Broaden conversations to adjacent services, e.g., Leadership Development, Coaching, Team Development. Contribute to thought leadership and/or research.
• Speak at local or national events in own area of expertise to enhance the KF brand. Develop relationships with industry and thought leaders externally to increase awareness and prestige of KF.
• Be ready to discuss other Korn Ferry (KF) offerings in order to draw on appropriate practice expertise to provide business solutions, including those that may require inter-service line approaches.

Education, experience, and other qualifications:

• A relevant higher (Master’s or Doctorate, ideally in Psychology) degree plus considerable (7+ years).
• Relevant work experience in a consultancy and/or a client HR function with a focus on Assessment, Talent Management and/or Succession Planning.
• Passion for outstanding client service and going the extra mile for clients, above average dedication to touch people’s lives.
• Interpersonal savvy and strong people agility, willingness to work with a diverse workforce and heterogeneous client base.
• Strong business acumen and commercial sense, strategic thinking skills and conceptual abilities paired with ability to operationalize and detail orientation.
• Hunger to operate in global environments and contributing to international projects and teams with openness for travel.
• Credentials in own ‘major’ discipline in Leadership Assessment, Succession and Talent Management, ability to work independently to apply all core/standard methods and tools within that defined discipline to address client needs:
• Expertise in design and implementation of assessments and full-fledged assessment centers, development journeys, program facilitation.
• In-depth experience using assessment tools and methodologies including cognitive, behavioral and personality assessments, multi-rater tools/feedback, behavioral interviewing, feedback, development planning and coaching. Certifications valued.
• Ambition and interest to develop in other delivery areas, e.g., Leadership Development and Coaching
• Fluency in German and/or French and English.

Benefits

As a global business, our benefits packages can vary from country to

country, but we always strive to provide our employees with a variety of high-quality options. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive total rewards package includes access to a wide range of benefits, including health, dental, vision and life. We provide performance-related cash bonuses, too.

Beyond Switzerland

We are a global firm with extensive international networks. Along with

access to deep expertise across the globe, our structure provides international opportunities to advance your career and develop new skills and experiences.

Diversity Matters

A commitment to diversity is a commitment to harnessing untapped talents and igniting the human potential. We believe that the strength and value our team brings to clients and KF is a result of our collectively diverse workforce, with diversity of background, experience, and perspective.

We are committed to be an inclusive employer and value our people based on their ability to contribute to Korn Ferry’s goals, irrespective of other attributes. We are happy to consider flexible and agile ways of working to help you achieve a balanced lifestyle. As part of the recruitment process, we can put you in touch with people who work flexibly so that you understand from them what our culture is like. We also welcome candidates who are returning to work after an extended career break who have previous relevant experience.

Do you care about the bigger picture?

For us, this isn’t just business. We care about what we do and how we do it. That’s why we sponsor initiatives that improve the way we work, live and give back to our communities. And we do all we can to protect the environment for future generations.

To help us do this, we established the Korn Ferry Charitable

Foundation, which aims to create and support programs that help people exceed their potential. Through the Foundation, we are working to:

Grant recipients include American Red Cross, Black Girls Code, Communities in Schools, Fundación Forge, LEADership Education and Development, Management Leadership for Tomorrow, and Out & Equal

Isn’t it time you joined us?

Visit our website www.kornferry.com/careers for more information.