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About the Role
Spencer Stuart is seeking an experienced Associate for the Legal, Compliance & Government Affairs Practice to focus on senior-level placements. This role involves identifying high-quality, diverse candidates through relationship-driven advisory discussions, acting as an essential member of the search team. The Associate will leverage research, project management, assessment, and relationship-building skills to provide exceptional service to clients.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the start-up phase of searches by participating in client kick-off meetings and assisting in developing position specifications, search strategies, and target lists.
- Gather information on relevant industries and target companies, identify potential prospects, and represent the client effectively in the marketplace.
- Validate potential candidates through reference and source calls.
- Partner with consultants to develop and present qualified candidate slates to clients.
- Anticipate needs to drive searches to closure, providing market trends, reaction to opportunities, and compensation data.
- Contribute to the preparation of position specifications, candidate presentations, and reference reports.
- Communicate effectively with consultants and executive assistants regarding search developments.
- Prepare organized information for client updates by teaming with consultants and executive assistants.
- Provide an informed perspective on prospects/candidates and their alignment with selection criteria.
- Stay aware of market activities and management changes, keeping team members informed.
- Add to the firm's candidate pool expertise by identifying and introducing new talent.
- Ensure assignment, company, and candidate information is available for colleagues by leveraging the firm's database.
- Contribute to responses for new business inquiries and business development initiatives.
- Proactively contribute to local, practice, or firm-wide initiatives and share practice-related information.
Requirements
- 3+ years of progressive, client-facing experience in a law firm (associate or paralegal), executive search firm, or related professional services environment.
- Ideally, experience and interest in legal, compliance, and government affairs.
- Advancement of skills and knowledge evidenced through promotion or tenure.
- Superior project management skills demonstrated through experience in a high-performance environment with multiple projects and competing demands.
- Excellent communication skills shown through clear, structured, and concise written and verbal presentations.
- Undergraduate degree required.
- Driven, intellectually curious, high performing, and collaborative.
- Ability to manage a high volume of work and multiple competing priorities without losing quality or momentum.
- Energized by a fast-paced, client-oriented environment and challenging assignments.
- Highly motivated, resourceful, and willing to roll up their sleeves.
- Asks thoughtful questions, learns quickly, and actively seeks feedback and opportunities to improve.
- Understands what motivates people and the impact of strong leaders on organizations.
- Takes an end-to-end view of each project and required resources.
- Works at pace with attention to detail while managing competing deadlines and priorities.
- Has a sense of urgency.
- Understands the search process and is proactive.
- Meets deadlines and is resilient under pressure.
- Delivers on commitments on time or notifies as early as possible if deadlines will slip.
- Demonstrates enthusiasm, tenacity, and intellectual curiosity.
- Action-oriented and deals with problems immediately.
- Exhibits a strong work ethic with a results-focused and flexible approach to project management.
- Develops qualified and interested candidates.
- Builds strong contact management lists.
- Synthesizes information from a variety of internal/external sources, despite possibly ambiguous or incomplete information.
- Gathers relevant data from various sources, including Third Party Sourcing (TPS).
- Articulates reasons for candidate fit to specification in a succinct manner.
- Determines priority of potential candidates to approach.
- Adds meaningful notes on Quest and diligently uses the initial assessment feature.
- Communicates effectively both in writing and verbally; has executive presence and is able to build relationships.
- Hooks candidates and convinces consultants to meet them, building a strong internal brand.
- Interacts with a range of internal and external stakeholders and candidates with differing styles and egos.
- Becomes a credible and authentic professional by observing colleagues and emulating role models.
- Adapts verbal and written communications according to expectations for role and audience.
- Obtains and incorporates knowledge to enhance client work.
- Knows how to get information and effectively uses available firm resources.
- Develops and shares candidate pool knowledge.
- Identifies executive movements in the market and updates Quest and colleagues.
- Has a genuine interest in/curiosity about people and businesses.
- Understands how to identify and navigate various relevant sources (internal/proprietary and external such as CapIQ, ZoomInfo, Pitchbook, LinkedIn, etc.).
- Develops self and others; seeks and provides feedback, modifies own performance or behavior based on feedback.
- Constantly growing, learning, and enhancing skills and capabilities.
- Seeks and is open to feedback from colleagues, placing value on self-development efforts.
- Is self-aware and open to changing one’s own behavior.
- Champions the Firm’s values, culture, and Code of Conduct; engages, participates, and collaborates with others.
- Accepts others’ opinions and encourages teamwork.
- Brings cultural awareness and sensitivity to each interaction with colleagues.
- Participates actively and contributes to internal activities; engages with office and practice.
Skills
- Project management
- Writing
- Relationship-building
- Research
- Assessment
- Communication (written and verbal)
- Attention to detail
- Intellectual curiosity
- Client-facing experience
- Executive search
- Professional services
- Legal sector understanding
- Candidate development
- Market knowledge
- Information synthesis
- Data gathering
- Credibility
- Influence
- Gravitas
- Executive presence
- Networking
- Feedback seeking and provision
- Collaboration
- Teamwork
- Cultural awareness
Location
- Boston
- New York
- Philadelphia
- San Francisco
- Washington DC
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Associate
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Undergraduate degree required
- Postgraduate degree or JD a plus
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000-$130,000
Benefits
- Generous performance-based discretionary bonus
- Excellent healthcare benefits
About the Company
- Spencer Stuart is a global executive search consulting firm.
Equal Opportunity
- Spencer Stuart is a proud equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
- We are committed to non-discrimination without regard to actual or perceived race, ethnicity, creed, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), national origin, immigration status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law.