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Researcher, Executive Search (Energy, Mining & Process practice group)Egon Zehnder • Montreal, QC, CA
Researcher, Executive Search (Energy, Mining & Process practice group)

Researcher, Executive Search (Energy, Mining & Process practice group)

Egon Zehnder • Montreal, QC, CA
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
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Job description

The Opportunity

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and proactive candidate to join our Research team serving North America based in Montreal. In this fast-paced role, the Researcher will be responsible for guiding internal client teams of consultants and other Researchers in the execution of Executive Search, Board, and Advisory projects for multiple clients within an industry or function. Primary responsibilities include project planning, market and candidate research, the production of high-quality client deliverables, business development, and knowledge management.

The Researcher provides specialized market insight, strategic guidance, and client engagement support as a crucial member of the client engagement team. In conjunction with internal consultant stakeholders, you will operate as part of a team that delivers powerful, effective human capital solutions to our clients. The ideal candidate will have strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to balance multiple projects at the same time.

Practice Team Summary

Egon Zehnder’s Energy, Mining & Process practice team works with many of the biggest companies in the industry globally, from leading public companies to global investors, industry associations, and privately backed miners, to help them rethink their talent requirements and organizational makeup to fit this evolving environment and to help cultivate leadership for a better world.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Research & Project Strategy

  • Research the client, client’s performance, and their ecosystem at the start of a project
  • Dictate and monitor project milestones and coordinate with various stakeholders to determine responsibilities
  • Serve as the lead Research for multiple simultaneous client projects in collaboration with Consultants and other Researchers
  • Act as a thought partner to the team on all aspects of projects by identifying and developing a rigorous approach and strategy (e.g., priority targets through market research, utilizing data tools, and scoping out parameters to deliver client solutions at scale and scope)
  • Guide the project team throughout the search processes to drive strategy, candidate solutions and supporting client materials with a consistent focus on quality and speed
  • Identify, calibrate and prioritize potential candidates through a thorough research process, the internal Firm network and external resources
  • Work broadly across different Firm offerings to continue developing a well-rounded understanding of our solutions to identify the best solutions for individual client needs
  • Create high-quality client documentation (e.g., candidate profiles, role specifications, search strategies, assessment and client progress reports, etc.)

Business Development

  • Develop an understanding of the Firm’s network and expertise to leverage their experience and knowledge in adapting and co-creating a client-centric approach
  • Partner with client teams to develop pitch presentations and business development materials, adapting deliverables and solutions to address specific client needs
  • Proactively initiate, shape, and drive effective business development activities and other business-related projects, including monitoring relevant market shifts in a segment or function, company updates, and people moves
  • Act as a partner with consultants to build targeted event lists for business development-related dinners, conferences, and other points of connection

Knowledge Management

  • Contribute to the Firm’s knowledge management activities by looking for opportunities to share expertise and best practices, developing a network of people within an industry or functional area and recording pertinent information
  • Deepen existing areas of subject matter expertise, providing strategic guidance and high-quality insights on important trends and topics to support client teams

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • A minimum of 3 years’ professional work experience (post-undergrad)
  • Demonstrated functional experience of a similar nature (e.g., market research, qualitative or legal research, professional services/consulting, project planning)
  • Previous project-based experience working effectively on multiple mandates simultaneously
  • Ability to effectively operate in a fast-paced, client-driven environment
  • Exceptional critical thinking and analytical skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication ability
  • Demonstrates very strong attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous knowledge or experience in an energy, mining or process organization
  • Strong Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel capabilities
  • Affinity and interest in the executive search or professional services industry
  • Superior engagement management abilities and initiative to lead projects with minimal guidance or supervision
  • Demonstrated ability to push back constructively and offer solutions
  • Forward-thinking, structured, and process-oriented thinker
  • Self-starter mentality with good business judgment

Benefits

About Egon Zehnder

Egon Zehnder is the world’s preeminent leadership advisory firm, inspiring leaders to navigate complex questions with human answers. We help organizations get to the heart of their leadership challenges and offer honest feedback and insights to help leaders realize their true being and purpose.

We are built on a foundation that supports partnership in the truest sense of the word and aligns our interests with the interests of our clients. Our 560 consultants across 64 offices and 36 countries are former industry and functional leaders who collaborate seamlessly across geographies, industries and functions to deliver the full power of the Firm to every client, every time.

We partner closely with public and private corporations, family-owned enterprises, and non-profit and government agencies to provide executive search, leadership solutions, CEO search and succession, and board advisory.

We believe that together we can transform people, organizations and the world through leadership.

Due to high volume, we will only be contacting applicants who meet all of the minimum requirements listed in the job description. Only those applicants who align most closely with our minimum and preferred qualifications will be contacted for an interview. The Recruiting team at Egon Zehnder will retain your application materials and may contact you regarding future opportunities.

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Sommaire du poste

Nous recherchons un candidat très motivé et proactif pour rejoindre notre équipe de recherche, basée à Montréal et desservant l'Amérique du Nord. Dans ce rôle dynamique, le chercheur sera responsable d'accompagner les équipes internes de consultants et autres chercheurs dans la réalisation de projets de recrutement de cadres supérieurs, de membres de conseils d'administration et de missions de conseil pour de nombreux clients au sein d'un secteur d'activité ou d'une fonction donnée. Ses principales responsabilités incluent la planification de projets, la recherche de marché et de candidats, la production de livrables de haute qualité pour les clients, le développement commercial et la gestion des connaissances.

Le chercheur apporte une expertise pointue du marché, des conseils stratégiques et un soutien essentiel à l'équipe chargée des relations avec les clients. En collaboration avec les consultants internes, il travaillera au sein d'une équipe qui fournit des solutions performantes et efficaces en matière de capital humain à nos clients. Le candidat idéal possédera de solides compétences en résolution de problèmes, d'excellentes aptitudes en communication et en relations interpersonnelles, et la capacité de gérer plusieurs projets simultanément.

Présentation de l’équipe

L’équipe de pratique Énergie, mines et procédés d’Egon Zehnder travaille avec de nombreuses entreprises parmi les plus importantes du secteur à l’échelle mondiale, des principales sociétés publiques aux investisseurs mondiaux, en passant par les associations industrielles et les mineurs soutenus par des fonds privés, pour les aider à repenser leurs besoins en talents et leur composition organisationnelle afin de s’adapter à cet environnement en évolution et de contribuer à cultiver le leadership pour un monde meilleur.

Tâches et responsabilités essentielles

Stratégie de recherche et de projet

  • Effectuer des recherches sur le client, son rendement et son écosystème au début d’un projet.
  • Dicter les étapes importantes d’un projet et en faire le suivi et effectuer la coordination avec les diverses parties prenantes afin de déterminer les responsabilités.
  • Agir à titre de chercheur principal pour de multiples projets clients simultanés en collaboration avec les consultants et d’autres experts.
  • Agir à titre de partenaire de réflexion auprès de l’équipe dans tous les aspects des projets en déterminant et en élaborant des approches et des stratégies rigoureuses (p. ex., déterminer des cibles prioritaires au moyen d’études de marché, utiliser des outils de données et établir des paramètres pour offrir des solutions aux clients selon l’échelle et la portée).
  • Guider l’équipe de projet tout au long des processus de recherche afin d’orienter les stratégies, la sélection des candidats et les documents à l’appui des clients en mettant constamment l’accent sur la qualité et l’efficacité.
  • Déterminer, évaluer et classer les candidats potentiels au moyen d’un processus de recherche approfondi, du réseau interne du cabinet et des ressources externes.
  • Saisir les différentes occasions offertes par le cabinet pour continuer à acquérir une compréhension profonde de nos solutions afin d’en élaborer des nouvelles qui répondront aux besoins individuels des clients.
  • Créer des documents de grande qualité pour les clients (p. ex., profils des candidats, listes des caractéristiques des rôles, stratégies de recherche, rapports d’évaluation et d’avancement à l’intention des clients, etc.)

Prospection de clientèle

  • Acquérir une compréhension du réseau et de l’expertise de l’équipe de la firme afin de tirer parti de son expérience et de ses connaissances pour adapter et créer conjointement une approche axée sur le client.
  • Collaborer avec les équipes clients pour élaborer des présentations et des documents de prospection de clientèle, et adapter les livrables et les solutions pour répondre aux besoins particuliers des clients.
  • Amorcer, façonner et diriger de façon proactive des activités de prospection de clientèle et d’autres projets liés aux affaires, y compris surveiller les changements pertinents du marché dans un segment ou une fonction, les nouvelles des entreprises et les changements de personnel.
  • En collaboration avec les consultants, établir des listes de soupers, de conférences et autres événements ciblés se prêtant à la prospection de clientèle.

Gestion des connaissances

  • Contribuer aux activités de gestion des connaissances du cabinet en cherchant des occasions de mettre en commun l’expertise et les pratiques exemplaires, en créant un réseau de personnes au sein d’un secteur d’activité ou d’un secteur fonctionnel et en consignant l’information pertinente.
  • Approfondir les domaines d’expertise existants en fournissant des conseils stratégiques et des renseignements de grande qualité sur les tendances et les sujets importants pour soutenir les équipes clients.

Qualifications minimales

  • Baccalauréat requis.
  • Minimum de trois années d’expérience professionnelle (après les études de premier cycle).
  • Expérience fonctionnelle avérée dans un domaine similaire (p. ex., étude de marché, recherche qualitative ou juridique, services-conseils professionnels, planification de projets).
  • Expérience antérieure de projets demandant de travailler efficacement sur plusieurs mandats simultanément.
  • Capacité à travailler efficacement dans un environnement dynamique et axé sur les clients.
  • Esprit critique et esprit d’analyse exceptionnels.
  • Excellentes aptitudes en communication orale et écrite.
  • Très grand souci du détail.

Qualifications privilégiées

  • Connaissances ou expérience préalables dans une organisation du secteur de l'énergie, des mines ou des procédés
  • Excellentes connaissances de Microsoft PowerPoint et Excel.
  • Affinité et intérêt pour le secteur du recrutement de cadres ou des services professionnels.
  • Excellentes compétences en gestion des mandats et capacité à diriger des projets avec un minimum d’orientation ou de supervision.
  • Capacité éprouvée à présenter des contre-arguments constructifs et à proposer des solutions.
  • Pensée avant-gardiste, structurée et axée sur les processus.
  • Sens de l’initiative et bon jugement professionnel.

À propos d’Egon Zehnder

Egon Zehnder est le plus important cabinet-conseil en leadership au monde, inspirant les dirigeants d’entreprise à résoudre des questions complexes avec des réponses humaines. Nous aidons les organisations à prendre le dessus sur leurs défis de leadership et leur offrons des commentaires et des idées honnêtes pour amener les dirigeants à réaliser leur plein potentiel tout en ciblant leurs objectifs.

Nous nous appuyons sur une base qui soutient le partenariat au sens le plus pur et qui harmonise nos intérêts avec ceux de nos clients. Nos 560 consultants répartis dans 64 bureaux et 36 pays sont d’anciens dirigeants fonctionnels et sectoriels qui collaborent de façon transparente dans une multitude de régions, de secteurs d’activité et de fonctions afin de toujours offrir la pleine valeur de l’entreprise à chaque client.

Nous travaillons en étroite collaboration avec des sociétés publiques et privées, des entreprises familiales et des agences à but non lucratif et gouvernementales pour fournir des services de recherche de cadres, des solutions de leadership, de recherche et de succession de PDG et de conseil d'administration.

Nous croyons qu’ensemble, nous pouvons façonner un leadership qui transformera les gens, les entreprises et le monde.

En raison du volume élevé de candidatures, nous communiquerons uniquement avec les candidats qui satisfont à toutes les exigences minimales énumérées dans la description de poste. Seuls les candidats qui correspondent le plus aux qualifications minimales et privilégiées seront convoqués pour une entrevue. L’équipe de recrutement d’Egon Zehnder conservera vos documents de candidature et pourrait communiquer avec vous au sujet de possibilités futures.

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