Senior Researcher
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Job Description
Senior Researcher supporting the Executive Recruiting team at Cushman & Wakefield in talent acquisition and market intelligence. Focuses on effective sourcing strategies and relationship management with executive-level candidates.
Responsibilities:
- Support the Executive Recruiting team and senior business leaders in identifying top talent
- Partner with Executive Recruiters and business leaders to define role requirements, develop ideal candidate profiles, and align sourcing strategies with organizational priorities
- Develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies to identify, engage, and present qualified and diverse executive-level talent across multiple business lines
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines through proactive research, networking, and relationship cultivation with passive candidates
- Conduct, build and enhance talent and market mapping research to surface insights on industry trends, competitor activity, and emerging leadership talent
- Collaborate on the development of new talent research and market intelligence products that enhance stakeholder decision-making and strategic workforce planning
- Proactively identify and gather competitive intelligence relevant to supported business areas and share insights with the broader Executive Recruiting team
- Manage and optimize the use of CRM system(s), research databases and other subscription-based intelligence tools to ensure accurate data capture, tracking, and reporting
- Deliver data-driven insights, dashboards, and pipeline analytics that highlight trends and inform sourcing effectiveness
- Identify and implement innovative sourcing tools, techniques, and technologies that strengthen executive talent acquisition capabilities
- Support special projects and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the firm’s executive search and sourcing function.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years’ executive-level research/sourcing and competitive research experience
- Background in research techniques with expertise in developing and analyzing market intelligence research, talent mapping reports, confidential candidate search experience, data base management and on-going research strategy and development
- Strategic thinker, ability to develop, evaluate and articulate HR strategies that address business and operational goals
- Search agency or internal executive talent acquisition experience
- Strong skills in client relationship management at the executive level
- Energy and drive to present a compelling story to a passive candidate.
Benefits:
- health, vision, and dental insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
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