Associate, Leadership Advisory Services

Position Summary

Leadership Advisory Services Practice

The 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 Role

The LAS Associate supports Consultants in the full execution of client engagements, including the deep dive, multi-method 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. 

Key Relationships

• This position reports to the LAS Director of Associates (solid line), Consultants (on a per-engagement basis).

• The successful candidate will engage regularly with members of the LAS practice.

• This position will be based in one of our US offices, with the specific office locations variable based on time of year and other factors.

Key Responsibilities

Supporting Execution

The LAS Associate is critical to the execution of client engagements and plays an active role in all aspects of the engagement lifecycle. The successful Associate will handle multiple engagements across varied time zones with competing deadlines, and will work effectively with individuals who have differing styles in order to consistently produce world-class deliverables for the firm’s clients:

• Fosters business development opportunities and assists in preparation for pitch presentations; participates in new business pitches

• Assists in the development of client communications and engagement plan

• Assists in the administration of proprietary leadership advisory tools and assessment methodologies

• Works with Consultant to synthesize data from multi-method assessments and prepares client reports/deliverables capturing an integrated point of view

• Contributes to summary client presentations and other documents identifying key organizational, cultural or strategic findings across the engagement

• Participates in client meetings to relay assessment and advisory findings

Engagement Management

In collaboration with relevant team members (including but not limited to Executive Assistants, LAS Consultants, and Search Consultants/Associates) the LAS Associate participates in the planning and management of the engagement lifecycle. Working with limited technology resources and a diverse group of internal and external decision makers often sp