Solutions HUB

Spencer Stuart•Boston, MA

10d

About The Position

OUR LEADERSHIP ADVISORY SERVICES PRACTICE The Leadership Advisory Services (LAS) Practice is an exciting, vibrant and uniquely dynamic practice environment within Spencer Stuart. Emerging in recent years as a key area of strategic focus and growth for the Firm, LAS has experienced an accelerated growth trajectory in both solution diversification and scale. The LAS Practice today encompasses a team of 180+ globally. In the past five years, the practice has consistently experienced double digit year-over-year topline revenue growth. Operating synergistically alongside the Firm’s market-leading Executive Search business, LAS professionals provide advice and partnership to clients navigating a range of key leadership and talent issues across 7 solutions: Executive Search CEO / CXO succession CEO / CXO acceleration Assessment & Development Team performance Board effectiveness Culture activation ROLE OF SENIOR ASSOCIATE TEAM AND ORGAIZATION EFFECTIVENESS METHODOLOGIES At Spencer Stuart, our Solutions represent our commitment to continuous improvement, collaboration, and excellence across our organization, and our Solutions Hub is the enabling function that will allow us to bring the best possible market-ready solutions to our clients. As part of the Solution Hub, the Methodologies team is responsible for ensuring the building blocks to those solutions are state-of-the-art, rigoros and scalable. The role of the Senior Associate - Team and Organization Effectiveness Methodologies has the following responsibilities:

Requirements

Five or more years of experience in team and/or organization effectiveness, leadership advisory or other professional services settings
An advanced degree from a highly competitive university in Organizational psychology or related field
Passion for and expertise in organization and team development
Systemic thinker
Result-focused, learning-oriented, self-driven, and pro-active
Ability to take the lead on, shape, bring structure to and deliver on ambiguous initiatives
Great collaborator and relationship builder
Strong critical and conceptual thinker
Excellent written and spoken knowledge of the English language
Good understanding and/or passion to learn about the developments of AI in the field

Nice To Haves

PhD in Organizational Psychology or related field
Direct interaction or experience with executive-level clients
Superior business writing skills, as evidenced through project work or writing samples to be provided upon request.
General business acumen, as defined by a keen and quick understanding of a range of business situations/contexts
Written and spoken command of additional languages besides English

Responsibilities

Works with the Methodologies Lead and the team on both the 1–2-year horizon and the 3+ year horizon, supporting the development, standardization and maintenance of state-of-the-art team effectiveness and organization effectiveness (culture activation and organizational health) methodologies and tools, ensuring they are and remain relevant and impactful and enable us to scale our team and org effectiveness approaches
Leads on workstreams and sprints together with practitioners in the field; ensures timely delivery and effective teaming; examples of such sprints are updating of organizational health diagnostic; automation of team and culture diagnostics; codifying and creating a library of content and interventions; advancing our internal training and accreditation program
Works with the Spencer Stuart Technology team to determine enhancement to our technology solutions
Partners with practitioners on flagship client projects to advance our team effectiveness and organization effectiveness approaches and drive innovation

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