Executive Search Consultant

Job Title

Executive Search Consultant

Job Description

In 2024, we launched our strategic People Agenda with a focus on delivering sustainable impact through three pillars: Grow Our People, Ignite Our Culture, and Simplify How We Work, guided by our commitment to Impact with Care. To be aligned with our Philips Operating Model with the business in the lead, we simplify and synchronize how we as People function deliver our services to our respective audiences (businesses, people and people leaders) and our goal is to be more people-centric, delivering the best people experience possible. 

Enterprise People Strategy is a newly created organization designed to define our People Strategy, focus on enterprise & cross functional priorities and meet the needs of internal senior leadership and external stakeholders. Enterprise Talent & Search will be part of this new organization with a focus on executive audiences, integrating Enterprise Talent Management and Recruitment efforts for senior leadership positions. Within this team, the Executive Search area of expertise focuses on actively recruiting senior talent for leadership roles, using proactive headhunting, talent pipelining, market insights, and candidate intelligence. These global responsibilities span geographies and time zones.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Executive Search Consultant with a track record of success to join our team. You are a highly visible ambassador of the Philips brand and value proposition and a talent advisor and partner to senior leaders and key stakeholders through your deep knowledge of the business, the (future) talent needs and the internal and external talent landscape, as well as through providing council and insights into competitors and external market trends and developments.

In support of building a strong leadership bench for your portfolio, you will take a holistic view of talent pipelines and be responsible for supporting the business (or region or function) in building a strong Talent Bench, with the right leaders, with the right capabilities in the right locations at the right time. As such, your responsibilities will include overseeing the end to end recruitment mandates in your global portfolio, including identification, engagement, assessment, interview, offer and pre-onboarding of senior leadership talent for critical executive positions in the Philips organization.

Moreover, you are the guardian for the exceptional candidate and client experience, overseeing the development of bespoke recruitment and talent strategies to meet the candidate and client needs throughout the entire recruitment life cycle (often for some of the most critical roles in our organization) and ensuring that candidates and hiring teams are prepared for each phase of the process. You gather requirements and proactively identify trends that may impact the candidate and client experience. Our team aspires to deliver extremely high touch service, and you will continue to innovate to maintain our leading position.

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor with executive-level leaders and other senior stakeholders to help strengthen the talent bench in the portfolio and consult on long-term organizational capabilities, as well as provide insights and recommendations on industry trends and competitors.
• Managing end-to-end seamless active search processes to attract, assess, select and onboard internal and external talent. Provide consultation and coaching to hiring teams and guide them through the recruitment process.
• Embed exceptional candidate experiences and learnings and share back with People Innovation & Experience for guidelines.
• Develop tailored recruitment strategies for client portfolios in pre-defined disciplines and execute by utilizing knowledge of internal and external talent pools to build robust and diverse pipeline of qualified candidates.
• Bring the outside in perspectives on the external landscape, industry and executive talent trends.
• Build and maintain relationships with executive-level leaders and industry contacts and build a pipeline of candidates and ensure Philips attracts and hires exceptional leaders who can drive business success and achieve strategic objectives and fit our culture.
• Collaborate on workforce planning in your portfolio to anticipate and address future talent needs and establish and drive proactive talent mapping and candidate pipelines for the critical executive roles in the portfolio.

Jobs to be done:

• Design and implement an integrated buy and build plan for the senior level roles in the portfolio, through deeply knowing the business priorities, the talent and the external marketplace. 
• Proactively identify, engage, develop and mobilize, a world class Executive talent pipeline for the portfolio with the capabilities we need now and for the future.
• Build strong partnership with senior level stakeholders and business partners, acting as their trusted advisor on executive talent needs, co-shaping the approach on how to best design for future success, plan for changes, engage with talents and drive integrated win/win solutions.
• Drive thought leadership, bring in best practices on assessment, executive hiring, as well as outside in perspectives on the external talent landscape, executive trends etc.
• Contribute to evolving and strengthening our in-house Executive Search capabilities, exploring solutions to build high impact talent pipelines.

Key relationships  

This position reports to Enterprise Talent & Search Lead and will closely work with: 

• Other members of the Enterprise Talent and Search Team, People Business Partners and senior People Leaders.  
• Colleagues in Innovation and Experience as well as People Business Services 

Superpowers and Critical Competencies 

Results driven:

• with a strong sense of urgency.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines, prioritize various demands, and identify/solve problems creatively.

Judgment and credibility: 

• You will have very high levels of situational decision making and judgement. You will expertly decide when to challenge and when to drive for consensus. You will be confident when dealing with the most senior stakeholders and executive candidates and will not be easily thrown off of course. You will maintain high levels of credibility and build trust in all situations. 
• You are an expert in assessing executive level talent, being able to quickly identify strong capabilities and development areas and matching this against the required degree of competence and skills needed.

High degree of business acumen

• Deeply understanding the business strategy, short term and long term and able to see how this translates to the Talent agenda. Ability to council, advise, influence others to drive towards the best outcomes for the business and the talents, developing and maintaining strong working relationships, and delivering results, insights and expertise for senior stakeholders in a professional manner.

Minimum Required Qualifications 

Education: 

Bachelor's/master's degree in human resources, Business Administration or equivalent. 

Ideal Experience:  

• A minimum of 10+ years of working experience in executive recruitment, ideally with a combination of both;
  • Inhouse executive recruitment roles in a global, complex matrixed environment, operating on the most senior levels of the organization,
  • Experience working in a retained executive search firm.
  • Preferably experienced recruiting for/in the HealthTech industry
• Track record of successfully partnering with diverse internal and external stakeholders including our most senior audiences (C-Suite leaders) to provide robust insight and recommendations in relation to executive talent.
• Proven experience in delivering on executive recruitment mandates end2end, from initial kick off, all the way up to and including executive level offers negotiation and onboarding.  
• Experience in managing a small team
• Master’s degree in HR, Business Admin or equivalent

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

About Philips

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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.