Company Description:
Egon Zehnder International (EZI) is the largest privately held search consultancy in the world, with more than 350 consultants located in 62 offices in 38 countries around the world. Founded in Zurich over forty years ago, the firm successfully introduced the executive search industry to Europe, and has a significant and growing presence in the United States. The most global firm in our industry, the firm has numerous offices throughout Asia and South America as well. Please visit the web site at www.egonzehnder.com for more details and background information.

EZI specializes in senior level executive search, board consulting and director search, management appraisals, and talent management. Their clients range across industries, from the world’s largest companies to medium-sized businesses, not-for-profits and entrepreneurial start-ups.

Egon Zehnder serves as the adviser of choice to business leaders throughout the world, including much of the Global 1000. Some of our top clients include Pepsi, Colgate, Google, Dell, American Express, Bank of America, UBS, General Electric, Siemens, Alcoa, Bosch, Novartis, Amgen, and GlaxoSmithKline.

The Position:

Egon Zehnder International offers Practice Specialists a fast-paced, highly stimulating, entrepreneurial environment and the opportunity to work with a diverse group of former business leaders. The Board of Director Practice Specialist will proactively generate the content for both new business development and assignment execution activities for one of EZI’s fastest growing practices. By working closely with the Co-Practice Leaders, this individual will manage key accounts, build intellectual capital for the practice nation wide, and monitor practice performance metrics. The Practice Specialist will direct the efforts of a small virtual team of researchers to help meet the daily demands of this busy practice.

Position Description:

Intellectual Capital and Business Development:

•Develop and execute a strategy to position EZI’s Global Board of Director Practice as a market leader in terms of strategic leadership, consulting and intellectual capital/thought leadership
•Produce ‘best in class’ pitch documents by analyzing EZI’s track record, governance trends, and building the firm’s knowledge about particular industries, companies, and executives

Practice Support and Strategy:

•Identify business development opportunities, in conjunction with the consultants, through targeted and long-term monitoring of companies and sub-sectors
•Expand new and existing client relationships through proactive candidate identification and industry knowledge development
•Proactively work with the consultants to ensure that they have immediate access to relevant sources pertaining to specific candidate pools
•Assist the co-practice leaders in strategic analysis of practice performance, budgeting and forecasting and internal communications

Data Integrity and Infrastructure:

•Update and oversee the operations of EZI’s proprietary database and intranet
•Monitor recent developments affecting companies and key executives that currently serve on corporate boards
•Build a mechanism to identify new or next generation board of director candidates

Ideal Candidate:

•The ideal candidate will have worked for a research-intensive firm and have experience in consulting, conducting market research, competitive intelligence, or executive search
•Intellectual curiosity and sound business judgment are critical
•Preference for individuals who have received an MBA, JD or other relevant degrees.
•This individual must demonstrate strong communications skills with an ability to develop relationships with a range of practice members, other practice specialists and clients worldwide.
•The candidate should demonstrate a proven ability to juggle priorities and manage a number of competing demands at once.
•Attention to detail is critical. The individual must strive for precision and accuracy when preparing materials for new business development presentations and client reports.
•He or she should be creative, self-motivated, proactive and persistent.
•The individual must have a very strong client service orientation – always seeking to please both the internal clients (EZI employees) and the external clients.
•Knowledge of corporate governance issues and trends a plus.