Our client has earned its reputation as a preeminent global Executive Search and Leadership Advisory business, specialising in the Industrials sector, and focused on serving publicly quoted, privately owned and PE backed organisations in the global Industrial and Energy Transition markets including: • Board, CEO & CFO • Renewables & CleanTech • Infrastructure • Transportation • Manufactured goods & services • Aerospace & Defence • TMT • Digital Transformation • Metals & Mining • Ports • Oil & Gas • Aerospace & Defence • Chemicals • Agriculture Working hand in hand with Boards, Chairs, management teams and investors, they create value with our expert thinking at a time when technology and societal changes are impacting business across multiple sectors. As the pace of innovation quickens and societal attitudes, in particular relating to diversity. and sustainability, are changing, it becomes increasingly challenging for companies to succeed. They have the practical solutions to enhance the value of our clients. Their business is built on relationships, knowledge, and trust. As advisors, They believe in always going the extra mile to apply thought, empathy, independent rigour, and conviction to our work. They offer advice, solutions and provide a personal touch, while maximising their networks, insights, and experience for our clients. They are exceptional for our specialist focus, truly international reach, and senior level contacts. The company has further developed the core search service by adding several complimentary C-Suite Advisory services; Executive Assessment, Board Assessment, Coaching & Mentoring, Leadership Development and Remuneration Consulting, that aim to solve Human Capital issues for clients all over the world. The Strategic Value of Advisory Services The development of the Advisory capability has and continues to follow a very deliberate path. The aim is to create an integrated capability offering to clients, enabling the business to dramatically improve relationships with existing and new clients. They achieve this, for example by; improving client information for decision making based on deeper insights, understanding how executives think, act, influence and lead; helping clients work through the contextual challenges that can often surround a senior search, creating more lasting and fruitful partnerships over time. The Advisory team and capability complements and adds to the search services. The Role They are seeking a commercially oriented Business Psychologist with the ambition to help grow the brand and reputation. They can offer an exciting opportunity to be central to shaping how this side of the business grows and develops. You will work a alongside an experienced team of consultant business psychologists and search professionals who will help you to develop the skills and confidence to work increasingly independently, as part of the team and directly with clients. Providing advisory expertise to clients • Collaborating with and being part of the client facing team alongside Search Directors and Consultants • At times, operating as part of a wider advisory team, drawn from an associate pool of external experienced consultants. • Covering all advisory service lines: o Profiling senior hires o Executive coaching for individuals and teams o Facilitating team events e.g. functional team build, high stakes team effectiveness, board cohesion o Creating succession plans and strategies based on sound data o Designing and delivering leadership development processes • Specific responsibilities include: o Helping to generate content for and assemble advisory project pitches o Managing project administration, logistics and timelines o Overseeing Hogan psychometric testing and Cognitive Processing profile testing o Interpreting psychometric data, carrying out candidates interviews and generating detailed profile reports o Giving feedback to clients and assessed individuals, alongside search colleagues o Creating client ready reports on teams and individuals o Helping to design and facilitate off site events o Developing marketing collateral with our Marketing Manager • Developing your internal and external business development skills over time, to help expand existing and create new client relationships. The Ideal Candidate • BSc & MSc level occupational / business psychology, or a related discipline • Prior experience in a professional services environment ideally Business Psychology Consulting but potentially Executive Search, or a progressive HR / OD team • High service orientation - the desire to delight clients and colleagues with outstanding contributions • An enthusiasm to be part of continuing to build the function; able to tolerate an emerging approach and environment / structure. • A deep interest in the commercial world and the human component of it • A natural curiosity to understand the intricacies of business situations • Excellent written skills • Maturity and gravitas to operate at C-Suite level • Strong project management skills • Communicates well with colleagues and clients, both oral and written • Proactive, self-starter, initiative, adaptable • Tenacious influencer (helping the internal search team embrace Advisory services as part of the routine) • Hogan accredited (ideal) • Desire to learn, develop and fulfil a leadership role in due course • Consulting experience including the design and facilitation