Analyst

4 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Heidrick & Struggles Full time

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


**Job Description**:
The Position

The Analyst role is the first step on the consulting career path. In this role Analysts learn the consulting cycle and the critical role or empirical data and rigorous analysis. Your contributions will expose you to leaders across a variety of industries and geographies. This role provides the opportunity to grow with one of the fastest growing organization consultancies specializing in accelerating performance.

The purpose of the Analyst role is to support client engagements and product development by researching, gathering, interpreting and presenting complex data in an impactful and compelling way.

The role will support our exciting range of projects including capability assessment, leadership development, and team effectiveness. Ideally you will have strong interpersonal skills and have worked in a consulting firm or be able to demonstrate the capability to effectively work with clients.

Accountabilities:

- Conduct research using a broad range of channels, presenting data in an easily digestible and concise format
- Enter, organize and analyse client data using best practice data analytical Leadership Consulting - Analyst 4 techniques to identify key themes and insights
- Prepare client and internal reports in Word or PowerPoint to convey data/research findings in a compelling way
- Support Partners, Principals and Consultants to produce high quality deliverables for clients
- Support the design of new products and tools, conduct and/or support client research, contribute ideas to design and development
- Plan and manage own workload on multiple projects, prioritise own work to meet challenging deadlines
- Build reusable, client-ready collateral, materials and presentations that clearly define the problem, summarize the analysis, outline potential solutions and lead to recommendation(s)
- Organize and maintain libraries of knowledge collateral, ensuring easy access for users
- Proactively develop own learning; build own expertise and experience to contribute across a range of client projects.

Key Metrics
- Expected utilization of ~70%
- Accuracy of data insights
- Delivery of reports etc on time and to quality
- Quality of analysis and deliverables
- Contributions to Firm initiatives
- Personal growth and development

The Person

Qualifications & Experience
- Deep interest in business, people, organizational behavior, ideally with a first, Masters, and/or PhD in either Business or Psychology (occupational or organization) coupled with strong analytical skills.
- 1 to 2 years of work experience with 2 years in a management or leadership consulting environment.
- Research experience and strong analytical skills able to use multiple research channels.
- Highly proficient in PowerPoint, Word and advanced Excel
- Experience of advanced statistical modelling such as SPSS and other best practice predictive analytics
- Highly numerate
- Excellent writing skills; can prepare concise and compelling reports
- High on attention to detail
- Language skills as required
- Willingness to travel locally and globally as required

Consulting Behaviours

Refer to Competency Framework describing:

- Thinking agility: thinks ahead, analyses and solves problems, is innovative and handles ambiguity
- Operate with excellence: is driven, proactive and self-directed and results focused; sets high standards for self and for others
- Inspire and engage clients and stakeholders: influences the thinking of clients and stakeholders by connecting, adapting own style and optimising personal impact
- Builds talent and teams: leads and develops teams and individuals to achieve the highest levels of performance and grow Leadership Consulting capabilities
- Agility: demonstrates foresight, adaptability, resilience and learning

Key Skills and Expertise Areas

Refer to Competency Framework describing:

- Business Acumen
- Domain expertise (organisation/team/leadership assessment and development)
- Project Delivery
- Engagement management
- Consulting skills (including facilitation)and interactions

Heidrick & Struggles is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring qual

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