Associate, Leadership Advisory Services

Leadership Advisory Services Associate

Leadership Advisory Services (LAS) Practice is an exciting, vibrant, and dynamic practice within Spencer Stuart. Operating synergistically alongside the Firm's market-leading Executive Search business, LAS professionals provide advice and partnership to clients navigating a range of key leadership and talent issues including : aligning culture and talent strategy with business strategy; maximizing team effectiveness; merger integration support; executive assessment; and talent development and transition support. LAS provides expertise in leadership assessment and development, which is a critical component to CEO succession. Furthermore, LAS is the engine that drives our capabilities and culture models, which are employed during CEO Succession engagements to ensure clients take a multi-faceted approach towards their leadership decisions.

The LAS Associate supports Consultants in the full execution of client engagements, including the deep assessment of executives, teams and organizations, and the formulation of written materials relative to assessment and development findings. The Associate contributes actively at all stages of the engagement lifecycle- from business development / RFP through to advisory recommendations and client / participant feedback.

The LAS practice serves as an innovation hub for the broader firm. In addition to executing client engagements, the Associate serves as a subject matter expert relative to Spencer Stuart's proprietary culture products and solutions. They play an important role in the education and training of internal colleagues (both LAS and Search) regarding product offerings and participates actively in internal initiatives for LAS product development and the build-out of the practice infrastructure.

The objective of the LAS Associate role is to provide world-class leadership advisory services to the firm's clients while also serving as a key colleague and teammate in advancing the growth agenda of the practice within the context of the firm's overall strategic objectives.

A typical LAS client engagement team may include : LAS Consultants, Associates, Project Managers, Search Consultants and Executive Assistants. We view the leadership advisory skillset to be portable across industries; the LAS Associate serves clients across a diverse range of industry sectors.

The LAS Associate role requires approximately 30-50% travel, primarily within the geographic / continental region of the person's home office (i.e. EMEA, North America, APAC). Occasional global travel may be required.

The base compensation range for this position is $90,000 $150,000 per year. You may also be eligible to participate in our annual discretionary bonus program, in addition to our comprehensive benefits program, including medical insurance, 401(k), paid holidays. Actual base compensation within the range above will be dependent on the individual's skills, experiences, and qualifications.