About the Role
This role serves as the lead experienced-hire recruiter for Simon-Kucher's Healthcare & Life Sciences consulting practice, a key growth area. You will partner with Practice Leadership to lead full-cycle recruitment for experienced consulting hires, shape hiring strategy, build market intelligence, and attract top talent. This is a highly visible role with significant influence on practice growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead full-cycle recruiting for the Healthcare & Life Sciences Consulting practice, managing searches from Consultant through Senior Director level.
- Partner directly with Partners and Practice Leadership to develop hiring strategies aligned with business growth objectives, succession planning, and evolving client demand.
- Serve as a strategic talent advisor by developing recruiting strategies aligned with business objectives and market conditions.
- Own complex, high-profile searches requiring sophisticated sourcing and senior consulting candidate engagement.
- Develop long-term relationships with Healthcare & Life Sciences consulting professionals across various firms to create a sustainable talent pipeline.
- Represent Simon-Kucher within the Healthcare & Life Sciences consulting community through networking, referrals, and industry events.
- Identify and engage passive candidates using advanced sourcing techniques.
- Conduct comprehensive candidate assessments evaluating consulting capabilities, leadership potential, client management skills, and cultural fit.
- Drive an exceptional candidate experience through timely communication, transparency, and consultative guidance.
- Influence hiring decisions using market intelligence, compensation benchmarking, talent insights, and data-driven recommendations.
- Partner with HR, Compensation, and Hiring Managers to develop competitive offers and successfully close top talent.
- Track recruiting metrics, identify trends, and continuously improve recruiting processes and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Act as an ambassador for the firm's employer brand within the Healthcare & Life Sciences consulting market.
- Serve as the market expert on Healthcare & Life Sciences consulting talent, advising leadership on competitive intelligence, talent availability, compensation trends, and hiring strategies.
Requirements
- Experience recruiting within Healthcare & Life Sciences consulting, management consulting, professional services, or executive search, with a strong understanding of the Healthcare & Life Sciences talent market.
- Prior recruiting experience supporting management consulting or professional services organizations is required.
- Proven experience hiring across multiple levels, including Senior Director and executive-level consulting talent.
- Experience managing multiple complex searches simultaneously while maintaining exceptional quality and speed.
- Demonstrated success recruiting passive candidates in highly competitive talent markets.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to influence and advise senior executives and hiring leaders.
- Excellent interviewing and talent assessment capabilities, particularly for client-facing consulting roles.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with executive presence.
- Strong negotiation and offer management experience.
- Bachelor's degree required.
Skills
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- ATS platforms
- Boolean search methodologies
Location
- Atlanta
- Boston
- Chicago
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000-$160,000 per year
Benefits
- Paid time off
- 13 paid holidays
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Life insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Company matching for 401(k)
- Employee Bonus Opportunity Program
About the Company
- Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30+ countries.
- Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients.
- We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value.
- With 40 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist.
- We believe in building a culture that embraces belonging, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters.
- If we get that right, great things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of course, our business.
Equal Opportunity
- Simon-Kucher is an Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) employer.
- Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected status.
