Executive Search Consultant

**Executive Search Consultant**

The Executive search consultant partners with business leaders to understand their business objectives and talent needs. They influence search and selection criteria based on labor market knowledge and identify and implement search strategies to attract top leadership talent. _It starts with YOU._

**Your Job**

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In your **Executive Search Consultant **role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

**Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities**:
1. End to end management of leadership hiring and pipeline projects. This includes:

- developing thoughtful recruitment strategies underpinned by labor market insights and your own expertise;
- prospect identification and engagement;

2. Continuous improvement of the executive talent acquisition function:

- Developing and embedding innovative and forward-thinking practices in strategic recruiting methodologies to attract executive talent aligned with Kimberly-Clark’s ambitions, values and critical capability needs.
- Actively engaging with our internal partners to gain insight, elevate our processes, and collaborate to deliver results, e.g: Talent Management, Rewards, Inclusion & Diversity, HR Partners
- Managing search firms as needed, as part of an overall executive sourcing strategy

3. Subject Matter Expertise:
The executive recruiter captures and communicates market trends, industry information, or other applicable intelligence to executive management in support of overarching talent sourcing strategy work.

**About Us**

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth, and impact. We’re founded on 151 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform - so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

**About You**

You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You’re also a university graduate with a Degree in related field and have at least 8 years of continuous work experience. You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results.

When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

**Essential Requirements**:

- 8+ years recruiting experience with at least 3 years working on Executive level projects. Experience in retained search firm or a combination or retained search + insourced Executive Search team.
- Strong business acumen
- Growth mindset, learning agility.
- Demonstrated success in a fast-paced environment, make quick decisions and work with highly confidential information; Superior project and time management skills, continuously balancing and prioritizing multiple projects and competing demands.
- Excellent communication skills shown through clear, structured and concise written and verbal presentation.
- Engaging style with the ability to establish rapport quickly, develop credibility and trusting relationships at all levels. Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Strong sourcing expertise and practices. Prioritizes prospect engagement, seeks out hidden pools of talent, continuously captures market, competitor and prospect research.
- Trained and practiced in behavioral based interviewing and assessment techniques.
- Collaborative style characterized by transparency, teamwork, flexibility. Provides coaching and counseling to other recruiters and team members.
- Travel approximately 10-25% of the time.

The role supports the organization by:

- ** Innovative spirit**: You use problem-solving and creativity to provide the best