Associate, Industrial Practice

Spencer Stuart is seeking to recruit an Associate for the IndustrialPractice in the Italian Office. This Associate will have the opportunity to help solve Chief Executive Officer and other C-level functional executive searches, working across sectors, and will develop a specialization over time. With exposure to a broad set of clients and leadership challenges, this Associate will help to identify and develop diverse candidate slates as an essential member of the global search team. The Associate role combines project management, research, assessment, sourcing, validation, and relationship-building skills to deliver extraordinary service and value to Spencer Stuart clients.
Successful candidates for the Associate position will have strong project management ability, writing skills, results orientation, rigorous attention to details, intellectual curiosity and ideally, an understanding of the industrial sector. The Associate will enjoy the challenge of working internally with a variety of Consultants across geographies, and externally with diverse, senior-level executives and board members. Associates will be expected to acquire deep and insightful candidate pool knowledge over time.
The Associate will ideally be based in Milan or in Rome. There is an expectation of being in the office a minimum of three days a week. In the early stages, it will be beneficial for the individual to spend more time in the office to build relationships, engage with colleagues and participate in the local office community.
SPENCER STUARTFounded in 1956 and privately owned, Spencer Stuart is one of the world's foremost leadership advisory consulting firms, operating out of 60 offices in over 30 countries and conducting more than 4,000 assignments worldwide annually. We are the advisor of choice among top companies seeking guidance on senior leadership needs and have unrivalled access to leading executives around the world. Our clients range across industries and vary in size from large multinationals to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. We also serve key non-profit organizations around the world.
Our clients are going through continuous transformation, with new trends such as digital disruption, sector consolidation, globalization, and even greater competitive and regulatory pressure. Our business is transforming too. We believe that leadership is critical and are motivated by the power of our work to improve the vitality and fortunes of our client organizations, as well as the lives of individual executives. As a result, we are adding new services and developing our technology platforms and tools to deliver high quality services in an effective way to our current and future clients.
THE ROLEAs an Associate in the Industrial practice in the Italian office, you will play a critical and visible role on the team.
Associates are expected to work pro-actively and efficiently on multiple client engagements through the combination of solid project management skills, proactive and quality search execution, ownership mentality and strong, team-oriented delivery to specific client needs.  Each assignment is driven by a team, including at a minimum a Consultant, Associate and Executive Assistant.  There are times when an Associate may be working with multiple team members located in different geographies.
Executive search skill sets include strong communication and assessment abilities applied to evaluating business experiences and professional competencies of top executive talent as they relate to a client’s specific need.  Successful candidates for the Associate position will also have project management ability, results orientation, rigorous attention to details, intellectual curiosity and enjoy the challenge of working internally with a variety of consultants, and externally with diverse, senior-level executives and board members. Associates will be expected to acquire deep and insightful candidate pool knowledge over time which would be related to a specific industry, function or geography.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
•    Contribute actively to the start-up phase of each search by participating in client kick-off meetings with the Consultant(s) and assisting in the development of the position specification, search strategy and target list of companies. As appropriate contribute to winning client pitches by providing benchmark candidate profiles and other background information.•    Gather relevant information regarding the appropriate industries and target companies. Identify potential prospects and sources and represent the client effectively in the marketplace, discussing the opportunity with relevant executives.•    Validate potential candidates through reference and source calls.•    Partner with the Consultant to develop and present a slate of qualified candidates to each client. Anticipate what needs to drive the search to closure and be prepared to supply additional information, such as related industry/segment trends, ma