Executive Search Support Consultant

Executive Search Support Consultant

Hybrid working: 3 days in office - Monday, Tuesday and Thursday

Paying £45 - £52K + bonus, healthcare, pension + unlimited holiday policy!

Must have at least 3 years boutique executive search experience!

Our client is a global executive search firm based in the Central London area who have created a new role for a well-educated and proactive Executive Search Support Consultant / Search assignment Coordinator to sit within their EMEA Private Equity Practice. You will be responsible for providing crucial support to their client facing team. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess strong organisational skills and have a client centric mindset.

Supporting 3-4 Fee Earners, you will have at least 3 years’ experience working within executive search so you can hit the ground running. This a newly appointed role so lots of scope to develop, grow and make it your own within a superb company who are not too corporate in their structure, they’re agile and nimble and have a fantastic social culture.

Search Support:

• Collaborate with search consultants to understand client requirements and project scope & deliverables.
• Support in building and formatting briefing reports, candidate reports and presentations for senior searches.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date candidate records in CRM during the search process.
• Providing Pitchbook data to enhance search accuracy

Database Management:

• Add clients and candidates to the database complete with personal information
• Produce reports for management
• Identifying and speaking to the CRM provider about opportunities for improvement within the systems
• Analysis of sales funnel to understand how successful deals came about
• Tracking KPIs from consultants and suggesting patterns for their productivity.

Business Development Support:

• Extracting info from Pitchbook and online about a client prior to a meeting.
• Building pitch decks for consultants
• Creating client proposals.
• Compile detailed reports about main clients and main target clients,
• Construct data bases of all target funds across Europe and US
• Extracting information on PE deals on Pitchbook and extracting lists of investors / operating partners / CEOs / CFOs on pitchbook

Diary Management:

• Coordinate schedules for Directors within the Practice.

Operational Support

• Generate activity reports
• Act as the main point of contact for any queries relating to the systems
• Assist with data cleanse projects on an adhoc basis.

Key skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field is desirable, not essential
• Proven experience in sales support or a similar role in the recruitment/ executive search industry.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain professional relationships.
• Proficiency in MS Office suite, particularly Excel, for data analysis and report generation.
• Familiarity and use of PowerBI / Salesforce or similar CRM system
• Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy in all aspects of work.