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Hybrid working central London

Location: WC2
Salary: HIghly competitive with a bonus, healthcare, pension + unlimited holiday policy!

Researcher / Executive Search Coordinator

Hybrid working: 3 days in office – Monday, Tuesday and Thursday

Our client is a global executive search firm based in the Central London area who have created a new role for a well-educated and proactive Researcher /  Search assignment Coordinator to sit within their EMEA Private Equity Practice. You will be responsible for providing crucial support to their client facing team. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess strong organisational skills and have a client centric mindset.

Must have executive search experience!

Supporting 3-4 Fee Earners, you will have at least 3 years’ experience working within executive search so you can hit the ground running.  This a newly appointed role so lots of scope to develop, grow and make it your own within a superb company who are not too corporate in their structure, they’re agile and nimble and have a fantastic social culture.

Search Support:

  • Collaborate with search consultants to understand client requirements and project scope & deliverables.
  • Support in building and formatting briefing reports, candidate reports and presentations for senior searches.
  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date candidate records in CRM during the search process. 
  • Providing Pitchbook data to enhance search accuracy

Database Management:

  • Add clients and candidates to the database complete with personal information
  • Produce reports for management
  • Identifying and speaking to the CRM provider about opportunities for improvement within the systems
  • Analysis of sales funnel to understand how successful deals came about
  • Tracking KPIs from consultants and suggesting patterns for their productivity.

Business Development Support:

  • Extracting info from Pitchbook and online about a client prior to a meeting.
  • Building pitch decks for consultants
  • Creating client proposals.
  • Compile detailed reports about main clients and main target clients,
  • Construct data bases of all target funds across Europe and US
  • Extracting information on PE deals on Pitchbook and extracting lists of investors / operating partners / CEOs / CFOs on pitchbook

Diary Management:

  • Coordinate schedules for Directors within the Practice.

Operational Support 

  • Generate activity reports
  • Act as the main point of contact for any queries relating to the systems
  • Assist with data cleanse projects on an adhoc basis.

Key skills and experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration or a related field desirable, not essential
  • Proven experience in sales support or a similar role in the recruitment/ executive search industry.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain professional relationships.
  • Proficiency in MS Office suite, particularly Excel, for data analysis and report generation.
  • Familiarity and use of PowerBI / Salesforce or similar CRM system
  • Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy in all aspects of work.

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