Egon Zehnder - Associate - Research - Industrials Practice Group

The Company :

EgonZehnder :

Egon Zehnder (www.egonzehnder.com) 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.

Knowledge Centre India (KCI):

Established in January 2005, KCI in Gurgaon, works in close collaboration with the Global offices of Egon Zehnder. There are 5 teams that make up KCI: Experts, Research Operations, Visual Solutions, Projects/CV Capture and Global Technology Services.

The Experts Team is a group of experts aligned to specific Industry or Functional Practice that works on with global teams ibn solving client mandates. The Experts provide insights from internal/external databases, expert perspectives on industry trend and through their experiences. Most of the team members come with an industry specialization (working in consulting or industry or both) and deliver insights for solving critical client problems.

Practice Groups:

To meet our clients' needs with precision, our Consultants and Experts work in global practices defined by industries and organizational functions in which they have significant prior executive-level experience. Our sector specialist structure helps us bring great depth to our knowledge of talent and intellectual capital.

Consultants and Experts at EgonZehnder are aligned to the following Industry Practices:

- Consumer

- Health

- Industrial

- Financial Services

- Technology & Communications (T&C)

- Private Capital

- Services

- Public & Social Sector

Within the Industrial Group, we have further segment specialization for:

- Automotive and Transportation Equipment

- Building Components

- Chemical and Process Industries

- Energy and CleanTech

- Machinery & Industrial Technology

- Mining & Metals

Further information may be found on our website pages:

https://www.egonzehnder.com/our-services/industry-practices/industrial.html

Research at EgonZehnder:

The research community at EgonZehnder is a highly valued and integral part of the business and is unique in the search industry for a number of reasons:

- The role is broad based covering business development, search and knowledge management.

- Experts accompany a project from the beginning to the end, working very closely with consultants. Experts see the whole context and are expected to contribute to discussions on search strategy and the suitability of candidates.

- Aligned by industry or functional practice group, experts can leverage their industry/domain expertise and grow as knowledge experts and knowledge managers

- We offer international training programmes and the ability to collaborate with colleagues globally.

The Position:

Research Associate - Industrial 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.

Required knowledge/experience :

- Post Graduate from an accredited academic institution

- A deep knowledge of, or clear propensity to learn about the industrial sector with 8+ years of business research experience and 1-2 year in any industrial sector would be preferable but not required.

- This also entails understanding sub domains such oil & gas, machinery, mining, chemicals and automotive with the very latest trends and talent studies in these segments.

- Experience of working on international engagements either in a professional services environment or in an in-house/captive research environment.

- Superior 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.