Senior Principal

Requisition ID
‎6531
Country
Saudi Arabia
State/Province
Ar Riyad
City
Riyadh
About Us
Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients
synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. We work with
organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help
them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them
on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people.
Our ‎10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than ‎50 countries. We offer five
core solutions:
* Organizational Strategy
* Assessment and Succession
* Talent Acquisition
* Leadership Development
* Total Rewards
Job description
POSITION SUMMARY & KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Senior Principal will work closely with colleagues in leading and managing
complex and/or
custom and/or multi work-stream solutions that meet and exceed client
expectations. This is
the level for highly experienced consultants capable of working with senior
leaders in client
organizations across a broad range of offerings.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Develop profitable business through effective client relationship building, account
management and collaborative working with colleagues across the KF enterprise.
Manage and expand relationships, including beyond technical buyers to business
leaders, to increase opportunities and further impact clients' business
success.
* Develop hypotheses about client business issues based on sound analysis plus client,
sector and industry know how. Leverage insights to define, recommend and /or
co-create strategic innovative solutions for clients.
* Lead the delivery of complex projects ensuring client satisfaction, effective project
management, good communication and collaboration between KF colleagues. Ensure
constant focus on outcomes by advancing the team's success and capabilities
through
sophisticated relationship management, influence, coaching, problem solving
and
diplomacy skills.
* Manage client expectations and ensure project members are sufficiently enabled to meet
client expectations. Assess and measure the impact of our work on our clients
business.
* Support relationship development with large key clients as part of an account team. Act
as relationship manager for large and complex clients including those with
international
points of contact and needs.
* Lead proposal writing and shaping of opportunities for complex/medium sized clients.
View business issues from multiple expertise angles and leverage KF's deep
expertise
to offer solutions that integrate across the business. May take the lead as
subject matter
expert working with relationship managers / sales leaders to shape significant
commercial proposals that meet client needs.
* Deliver high quality work as an expertise lead that meets or exceeds client expectations.
* Lead and/or contribute to thought leadership and /or research, managing relationships
with business and thought leaders in a defined expertise area and speaking on
national
(possibly international) platforms to enhance and extend the KF brand.
* Continue to deepen and broaden own consulting skills, business understanding and
expertise to enable an expanded viewpoint on the issues impacting our clients.
Actively
look for opportunities to support the development of colleagues through
mentoring,
timely feedback and project based development/coaching.
* Has a deep understanding of solutions, product offerings, our Korn Ferry Advisory point of-view, frameworks, delivery tools and processes to design innovative solutions for
clients. Is recognized as a national and often global resource/subject matter
expert for
Korn Ferry Advisory, making significant contributions to practice development,
leading
the national and/or global deployment of new, commercially viable products and
services, in the service of global initiatives.
* Lead in the QA/Peer review process within an area of specialization. Lead in contributing
best in class work products and tools to KF knowledge bases.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, & OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
*
Typically a relevant higher (Master's or Doctorate) degree plus considerable
(‎10+ years)
relevant work experience in a consultancy and/or a client HR function in
progressively
larger and more complex/high impact client situations.
* Alternatively, significant work experience (‎10+ years) in a top tier professional services
firm.

Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer -
Minority/Female/Disability/ Veteran. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or
veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or
local law.

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