Data Analyst

​Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is the world’s foremost advisor on executive leadership, driving superior client performance through premier human capital leadership advisory services. For more than 70 years, we’ve delivered value for our clients by leveraging unrivaled expertise to help organizations discover and enable outstanding leaders and teams. Learn more at www.heidrick.com

Job Description:

Who We Are:

Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.®  

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com. 

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and inquisitive Data Analyst to join our Advanced Analytics & Decision Science team. This team combines data, advanced analytics, and deep curiosity to uncover insights that address previously unanswered questions—driving strategic decision-making and commercial performance.

In this role, you will support multiple business lines, applying analytical frameworks to answer key questions that shape company decisions. Your work will generate insights that help us better understand leaders, organizations, and the unique dynamics that drive success in an ever-evolving world.

Success in this role requires intellectual curiosity, the ability to develop meaningful insights, and the skill to craft compelling data-driven narratives that influence decisions at all levels.

Heidrick Labs is a pioneering research and innovation division dedicated to transforming organizational leadership through cutting-edge insights and advanced analytics. Our multidisciplinary team combines expertise in data science, psychology, and business strategy to develop forward-thinking solutions that help companies navigate complex workplace challenges. Through the Lab Heidrick advances leadership diagnosis, delivers decision-driving insights into global workforce trends, leverages AI-powered talent strategy development and deliver organizational transformation consulting. We don't just study the future of work—we help organizations create it. 

Responsibilities

• Work closely with business leaders to identify and narrow a list of key questions and challenges that analytics can help solve, driving meaningful commercial outcomes.
• Partner across Heidrick Labs to best assemble the needed combination of embedded authorities who serve as strategic advisors to key partners and technical specialists who are proficient in advanced analytics techniques and tools to augment your effort.
• Design, execute and deliver rigorous analytics and/or experimentation strategies (A/B testing, causal inference, etc.) to evaluate business decisions and drive continuous improvement.
• Leverage SQL, Python/R, and other analytical tools to extract, analyze, and visualize data effectively.
• Translate complex data findings into clear, actionable insights through compelling storytelling and visualization techniques.
• Deliver measurement recommendations and technical specifications to help evolve a strong understanding of leaders, roles, industries and companies/
• Act as a strategic partner to stakeholders, providing thought leadership on the application of analytics in decision-making.
• Participate in a culture of curiosity, innovation, and analytical excellence within the team and across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience delivering analytics, insights, data science, or decision science to drive decisioning.
• Degree in statistics, analytics, data science, economics, policy or similar field leveraging analytics for decision making, or equivalent practical work experience.
• Ability to analyze data and develop insights to create a narrative.
• Ability to effectively communicate data insights and analyses to business stakeholders.
• Expertise in SQL and at least one statistical programming language (R or Python