Egon Zehnder - Associate - Research - Consumer Practice Group

Research Associate

Egon Zehnder:

Egon Zehnder is trusted advisor to many of the world's most respected organizations and a leading Executive Search firm, with more than 400 consultants and 69 offices in 41 countries spanning Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our clients range from the largest corporations to emerging growth companies, government and regulatory bodies, and major educational and cultural institutions. The firm is a private partnership which allows us to operate independent of any outside interests. As a result of this unique culture, Egon Zehnder has the highest professional staff retention rate for a global firm in our profession. We have a blue chip client base across all industries and operate at the Board and senior management level.

Research Associate - Consumer Practice Group:

- The Research Associate will leverage their deep domain knowledge and external network to drive C-level/senior candidate recommendations and/or mid-level candidate development. This individual will also proactively drive business development opportunities given their intimacy with market trends and company insights.

- The Associate will build, or have built, an external network of industry or functional sources and experts that they can tap into to drive client solutions. The Expert is expected to function autonomously as required. However, the Segment and Practice experts and consultants work collectively as a team for candidate idea generation, references and client assignment work. This role will be visible to clients and will be expected to help develop key account strategies.

- As an experienced hire, this individual is expected to lead by example and act as an informal mentor and coach to other experts they work with throughout the organization. This is an individual contributor role however there will be extensive collaboration with global colleagues on projects.

- The Expert will work closely in collaboration with Experts and Consultant colleagues around the world as a fully integrated team member on senior-level, international projects. Our new colleague will receive prime guidance from Ravi Yadav, Expert Head and Global Industrial Practice Specialist based in KCI.

Role of Research - Key Aspects of your daily tasks:

1. Assignment Execution: Supporting consultant on live search mandates

- Collaborating with different teams across EZ offices on assignments, e.g., building target list of companies, identifying potential candidates for the assignment, assisting in market mapping and market analysis.

- Comprehensively searching internal and external resources to identify companies and markets to be targeted for relevant candidates

- Assisting in ensuring relevant information is captured effectively into our database and is up to date

- Generating client deliverables e.g. status reports, mapping reports, pitch packs, long lists, candidate profiles etc.

- Assisting colleagues with assignments, candidate ideas and sources

2. Business Development:

- Act as a support channel in highlighting potential business opportunities to the practice group

- Proactively monitoring and tracking relevant market developments, tracking people moves, following critical company developments and disseminating the information in a targeted manner.

- Proactively provide insights on industry trends and key companies

- Act as a thought partner to Experts & Consulting colleagues, work on search strategy, benchmarking candidates

- Assisting or leading the development of marketing presentations for the practice group

3. Knowledge Management:

- Building repository of knowledge on the sector/industry, creating org charts, managing people moves and sector movements

- Develop specialist knowledge into sector trends, compensation data and characteristics of the sector

Candidate Profile:

Role of Research - Our Expectations:

- Project Management: Time management, managing deadlines, managing multiple projects, utilizing right resources and problem solving

- Thought Partnering: Collaboration with senior consultants & partners, demonstrating conceptual thinking, defining search strategy, benchmarking candidates and appropriate target companies for the your sector

- Judgement: Identifying relevant candidates and sources based on industry knowledge, problem solving ability, insight and intuition

- Delivering Output & Documents: Producing high quality content of relevant documents

- Collaboration and Teamwork: Partnering with others on projects and contributing as a part of the team

- Communication Skills: Confident and strong communicator, representing EZ adequately, have a professional demeanor

Required knowledge/experience:

- Post Graduate from an accredited academic institution

- At least 10+ years of professional experience with a deep knowledge of, or clear propensity to learn about the Consumer Products Industry at large, its competitive landscape including the very latest trends.

- Experience of working on international engagements in a professional services environment with an understanding of Global market

Openness to travelling once or twice a year if need be:

- A self-starter with learning agility, engaging remotely, thought partnering, critical thinking, eye for detail, conceptual thinking

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and expertise with MS-Office (Word, PowerPoint & Excel)-

Location: The position is based at Egon Zehnder's KCI office in Gurgaon, Plot no. 29, Institutional Area Sector 32.

Egon Zehnder is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Egon Zehnder provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, disability, or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.