Associate Principal

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

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Job description

OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE YOUR CAREER - It's about exceeding your potential.

As a delivery-focused principal, your primary focus is to manage and deliver work at the highest of quality.

Your experience within an area of expertise enables success in leading and structuring complex engagements.

With clients, you create trusted, collaborative relationships by managing needs, expectations and the environment.

Contributions to new business development focus on structuring the solution, pricing and establishing oneself as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) with internal colleagues and external clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES


* Contribute to or lead delivery teams creating an atmosphere of trust, inclusion and collaboration to ensure successful outcomes


* Support less experienced consultants through mentoring and engagement-based development and coaching


* Develop and/or support engagement structure, plan, resource needs and definition of deliverables and outcomes


* Build productive relationships with engagement and client team members setting clear expectations, direction and asking for feedback when appropriate


* Identify opportunities to expand work within existing accounts


* Oversee and/or conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis, synthesize data into action-oriented insights and ensure quality and satisfaction of client deliverables


* Grow and manage knowledge of engagement economics to ensure accurate scope, margin and profitability of work


* Partner with internal KF functions to resource delivery talent, manage contract-to-cash activities, track profitability and ensure high quality delivery


* Apply operational discipline to all aspects of sales and delivery using internal systems and reporting


* Leverage firm resources to appropriately direct opportunities and/or questions.


* Grow knowledge of all KF LOB, solutions and markets


* Lead internal research projects or initiatives to expand and/or strengthen IP and solution relevance in the marketplace

Account Team Roles (where assigned)


* Work closely with the core delivery team to coach, mentor, support, influence and troubleshoot issues


* Manage client expectations through the delivery process balancing the need to delight the client and manage scope


* Manage client relationships for sm...