Job Description

Executive Search Consultant



Executive Search Consultant

At Kimberly-Clark, we are committed to leading with our Purpose \xe2\x80\x93 Better Care for a Better World \xe2\x80\x93 and accelerating our performance to deliver for our customers, consumers, and communities. You\xe2\x80\x99re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. Joining Kimberly-Clark propels you to bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. As an executive search consultant, you\xe2\x80\x99ll attract the critical leaders that help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

About Us

Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. We are headquartered in Dallas, Texas U.S.A. with approximately 46,000 employees worldwide and operations in 34 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people\xe2\x80\x99s most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what\xe2\x80\x99s important to them. Sustainability is at the center of our company and by 2030 we aspire to advance the well-being of one billion people through social programs and reduce our environmental footprint by half. We focus on the areas where we can make the biggest difference - climate, forests, water and plastics. Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Neve, Plenitud, Viva, Softex, Sweety and WypAll, hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 80 countries.

The Position

The Executive search consultant partners with business leaders to understand their business objectives and talent needs. They influence search and selection criteria based on labor market knowledge and identify and implement search strategies to attract top leadership talent. They operate with an enterprise mindset, understanding the K-C business and talent strategies and continuously build a pipeline of highly qualified and interested candidates by proactively engaging top level talent that aligns to the current and future needs of K-C.

The Executive Search Consultant is responsible for:

End to end management of leadership hiring and pipeline projects. This includes:

• developing thoughtful recruitment strategies underpinned by labor market insights and your own expertise;
• Advising and consulting with senior leaders regarding workforce trends, competitor insights, executive candidate expectations to influence and enable us to attract the best.
• prospect identification and engagement;
• behavioral interviewing and assessment, proposing shortlisted talent and providing advice on candidate selection;
• Managing candidate relationships, ensuring exceptional candidate experience, performing referencing, offer proposal, negotiation and close of finalists.

Continuous improvement of the executive talent acquisition function:

• Developing and embedding innovative and forward-thinking practices in strategic recruiting methodologies to attract executive talent aligned with Kimberly-Clark\xe2\x80\x99s ambitions, values and critical capability needs
• Actively engaging with our internal partners to gain insight, elevate our processes, and collaborate to deliver results, e.g: Talent Management, Rewards, Inclusion & Diversity, HR Partners
• Managing search firms as needed, as part of an overall executive sourcing strategy

Subject Matter Expertise:

The executive search consultant will continuously develop thorough research and talent intelligence on executives and executive-ready talent at competitors, target companies and industry segments and will be a subject matter expert on recruiting strategies to meet the needs of K-C various business segments. The executive recruiter captures and communicates market trends, industry information, or other applicable intelligence to executive management in support of overarching talent sourcing strategy work.

The successful candidate will be:

Client focused: You will have the opportunity to be a consultant to your executive level leaders by understanding the talent market to supply the best candidates for current and future roles.

Candidate centric: You understand that today\xe2\x80\x99s talent has choices, so you go above and beyond to ensure that candidates have the best recruiting experience with Kimberly-Clark.

Innovative spirit: You use problem-solving and creativity to provide the best solution to everyone involved in the process.

Influential: You value the importance of building trusted relationships across the organization and bringing stakeholders along in talent decisions by focusing on excellence in client delivery and communication.

Qualifications

• 8+ years recruiting experience with at least 3 years working on Executive level projects. Experience in retained search firm or a combination or retained search + insourced Executive Search team.
• Strong business acumen
• Growth mindset, learning agility.
• Demonstrated success in a fast-paced environment, make quick decisions and work with highly confidential information; Superior project and time management skills, continuously balancing and prioritizing multiple projects and competing demands.
• Excellent communication skills shown through clear, structured and concise written and verbal presentation.
• Engaging style with the ability to establish rapport quickly, develop credibility and trusting relationships at all levels. Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Technical acumen and data rigor. Leverages systems and tools to manage projects and candidate relationships. Adheres to defined processes, practices and service deliverables in real time.
• Strong sourcing expertise and practices. Prioritizes prospect engagement, seeks out hidden pools of talent, continuously captures market, competitor and prospect research.
• Trained and practiced in behavioral based interviewing and assessment techniques

• Collaborative style characterized by transparency, teamwork, flexibility. Provides coaching and counseling to other recruiters and team members.
• Flexibility to be available to candidates and internal customers outside the normal workday.
• Travel approximately 10-25% of the time.

Location:

Singapore, China, Malaysia preferred.

And finally, the fine print\xe2\x80\xa6

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Primary Location Singapore

Additional Locations China-Shanghai, Malaysia - Petaling Jaya

Worker Type Employee

Worker Sub-Type Regular

Time Type Full time

Kimberly-Clark