Executive Search Professional

The Executive Search Professional is a high-impact, dual-desk producer responsible for driving professional search adoption within assigned markets while personally delivering on both recruiting execution and revenue generation. This role balances candidate leadership with proactive business development. The Executive Search Professional owns revenue performance, leads complex and confidential searches, and serves as a market-facing expert who models pricing discipline and consultative selling.

Key Accountabilities
The Executive Search Professional is responsible for driving the end-to-end search process from client development to placement of qualified professionals, owning revenue performance, and delivering high-impact professional search solutions within assigned markets.

Business Development & Client Engagement

Identify, qualify, and close new search opportunities

Proactively develop and expand client relationships through consultative engagement

Conduct intake meetings that elevate role clarity, expectations, and search strategy

Serve as a trusted advisor by understanding client business goals, talent challenges, and market dynamics

Establish a consistent rhythm of client communication, feedback loops, and service reviews

Identify opportunities to expand accounts

Search Execution and Candidate Liaison

Lead concurrent complex, high-impact, and confidential searches

Own the full lifecycle of search execution

Market mapping and talent identification

Candidate outreach, engagement, and qualification

Interview preparation, offer negotiation, and closing

Deliver a high-touch, consultative candidate experience from first contact through placement and beyond

Build and maintain deep talent pipelines aligned to core market segments

Provide career coaching and advisory support to candidates

Ensure timely, high-quality delivery aligned to client expectations and SLAs

Customer Experience

Deliver an above and beyond experience for both clients and candidates

Willingness to go the extra mile at the end and do that little something extra to provide the wow factor

Actively contribute to and model Placers' Outside-In (R) culture

Create and share success stories that reinforce brand differentiation

Continuously innovate ways to enhance service delivery and client value

Skills and Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Proven success in full-desk recruiting, executive search, or consultative selling

Demonstrated ability to generate business and close search engagements

Experience using ATS, CRM, and recruiting technologies

Strong negotiation and closing ability

Ability to travel to various locations (e.g., customer sites, other company offices) as needed

Ability to provide excellent customer service to all clients (customers, employees, and vendors)

Ability to analyze and evaluate people, data, and other criteria to determine courses of action

High level of ownership, accountability, and urgency

Ability to analyze talent markets and translate insights into action

Comfortable working autonomously while contributing to a team environment

Ability to successfully complete a background check

Equal Employment Opportunity Promise
Placers will recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals, as well as administer any and all personnel actions, without regard to an individual’s race, religion, creed or color, national origin, ancestry, mental and/or physical disability, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, or other characteristics protected by law. Placers will make reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals and will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is prohibited.

Diversity and Inclusion Promise
Placers values everyone. We like the way you are. We are committed to creating an environment where anyone, from any background, can do their best work and make Placers better. At Placers, we will continue to make our workplaces trusting places to have complex and sometimes difficult conversations about diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Health Advocacy Program and EAP

401k with employer match

Vacation, Flex PTO, and Paid Holidays

Hybrid Work Schedules

Company Paid Life Insurance, Long and Short Term Disability Insurance

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