Senior Business Analyst

The demands on leadership have never been greater. This is why companies today expect more from us than ever before: they want to co-create customized leadership solutions in true partnership with long-term, trusted advisors. At Egon Zehnder, we operate as one unified team, with expertise across industries, sectors and geographies.

Our teams specialize in executive and CEO search, Board advisory, CEO succession, assessment and development, team effectiveness and organizational transformation.

We focus on our clients specific leadership needs, whether facing disruption, mergers and acquisitions, global expansion, family business generational shifts or the challenge of driving growth. We have extensive expertise working closely with operating partners, CEOs and governing boards of many of the world’s most successful companies.

In the end, we aim to provide the leadership solutions that will ensure an organization’s future success.

We are currently looking for research talent to become a part of our Amsterdam team.

The purpose of the role is to provide deep insights and analysis on challenging leadership issues for our clients. You will spend an equal amount of time across three major responsibilities, namely: Assignment Related Research and Ongoing Support, Business Development Support and Knowledge Management Activities. From the start you will partner with Consultants and other Experts on any of the above activities.

Skills

• Project management
• Time management, managing deadlines, managing multiple projects, picking appropriate resources and problem solving
• Conceptual thinking
• For instance creating a search strategy, benchmarking client's company in order to choose most appropriate target firms
• Judgement
• Identifying relevant candidates and sources based on excellent problem solving, insight, intuition and knowledge
• Delivering output & documents
• Producing high quality content of relevant documents
• Collaboration & team(work)
• Always working in partnership with others and contributing as part of a team
• Client focus
• Working hard to deliver the best solution for our clients
• Communication skills
• Communicating in a confident manner, representing EZ adequately, excellent writing and verbal skills, extracting information from the market, professional demeanor internally & externally
• Qualifications and language
• A university degree and 3–5 years of relevant professional experience (i.e. Executive Search, Consultancy, Executive Recruitment). Proficiency in Dutch and English is required
• Characteristics
• High level of energy, perseverance and tenacity
• Pro-active personality, ready to roll up sleeves
• Ambitious and international mindset
• Analytical and structured mindset, but with an ability to think laterally and creatively
• Curious in the broadest sense
• The ability to push back in a constructive way, always offering a solution
• People-oriented personality; teamplayer

What we offer

• Brainstorm with the best executive search team in the market
• Surrounded by a true team-player and collaboration culture
• Challenge top-notch high level consultants & clients
• Work hard attitude
• Contribute to industry changing mandates
• A true international environment
• Flat organization, a lot of space to take initiative
• Opportunities to grow, internally and externally
• A state-of-the-art office
• Daily lunches and monthly drinks at the office
• If you are excited to work at the intersection of leadership, strategy, and talent and you want to contribute to a high-performing international environment, we would be delighted to hear from you.