Associate Consultant (Graduate)

About the role

Associate Consultants (AC’s) are central to the continued success and growth of all our teams. At its heart, the role of the AC is to be the first point of contact for our candidates – driving productive and meaningful conversations and experiences whilst delivering an exceptional level of customer service. Our AC’s spend their time building our candidate network and supporting our senior consultants on searches mandated by our clients. Success in the role is all about being creative in how you identify appropriate candidates and establish contact with them and using data and feedback to develop your productivity and performance, developing toward a successful career in executive search – whether specialising in business development or delivery.

Responsibilities

• Candidate network: Cultivate and grow a network of high calibre candidates which is central to function, service line and industry sector. You will utilise Salesforce (our CRM system), LinkedIn and other tools to identify, attract, and engage with a variety of professionals.
• Research: Conducting desk-based research using all methodologies taught to create longlists and engage with talent to deliver shortlists.
• Gather intelligence: Have meaningful and engaging conversations with your network in such a way that produces market intelligence that is useful to the wider business, whilst developing your own personal brand and reputation within your market.
• Support colleagues: Support colleagues with the execution of projects mandated by clients – taking ownership at critical stages of the process.
• Process management: Work with more senior colleagues to manage candidates through recruitment processes and schedule interviews and meetings etc.
• Company-wide initiatives: Play a role in other internal and external facing initiatives including B-Corp and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, making a valuable contribution to the business culture.
• Training and development: Work with your line manager and our people team to formulate and execute on your own personal development plan, combining professional and personal goals to develop a long-term successful career in sales.

Required Skills, Experience, and Competencies

• Experience and career ambitions: You will be a recent graduate or due to graduate from university with a strong academic record of achievement – the research skills you gained at university will be invaluable. You should have a strong desire to build a career in recruitment or sales, ideally with some knowledge of the industry. Our most successful ACs are motivated by achievement, and willing to work hard to progress within their careers, asking for advice and help when necessary but also using their own initiative.
• Personal Approach and Values: You should have a professional, open, and honest approach to work whilst displaying a positive and helpful attitude. Our company values are human, aware, committed – we expect you to be able to demonstrate these in your interactions with candidates, clients, and colleagues. You will also need to develop the confidence to overcome obstacles to ensure the quality of work and your ultimate success. Resilience is key – you must be able to look at knockbacks as part of the learning journey – we tend to learn more from failure than success after all!
• Bias for action: Taking a positive approach to delivering work, and being flexible and adaptable as workloads and requirements change - ensuring client delivery excellence and candidate experience is maintained.
• Communication: Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with a variety of different people. You will be expected to write clear, concise and professional emails and project reports, and able to put together PowerPoint presentations. You will also develop presentation skills and learn how to use a range of internal and external communications tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. You should demonstrate a natural curiosity about people – success in Executive Search is all about relationship building, through building rapport, asking open questions, and active listening.
• Drive for results: A commitment to hard work to achieve goals and exceed targets whilst being open to seeking and taking onboard feedback from more experienced colleagues. You will demonstrate a growth mindset with your commitment to learning by getting stuck in, and by not being afraid to learn through getting things wrong!
• Planning and Organisation: Taking a positive approach to effective time management and planning. You will be expected to work on developing the ability to deliver on numerous tasks at any one time, and to prioritise your tasks effectively - using a range of tools to support you.

About The Barton Partnership

Having been founded in 2007, The Barton Partnership has established itself as the pre-eminent and a multi award-winning, niche, executive recruitment firm providing permanent search and independent consulting services across all aspects of Strategy & M&A, Digital, Data & Analytics, ESG & Sustainability, and Transformation & Change. We have offices in London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Our clients include FTSE listed and Fortune 500 companies across all sectors/industries; SMEs, Strategic, Innovation & Management Consulting firms (large and boutique), Global Financial Services, Private Equity and Venture Capital organisations. Our network represents talent from Analyst to Partner/MD level across all disciplines and sectors associated with Strategy & M&A, Digital, Data & Analytics, ESG & Sustainability, and Transformation & Change. Our independent consulting business provides clients with candidates and teams for business-critical projects across Europe, North America and AsiaPac. We maintain a curated global network of more than 5,000 independent Consultants, and in 2022 we ranked Gold for Consulting Networks in the UK’s Leading Management Consultants report by the Financial Times. The key to our success lies in the experienced talent we have acquired ourselves. Our team consists of industry veterans and former tier-one strategy consultants working alongside sector-specialised experienced recruiters, which gives us a clear and distinct advantage in understanding the needs of the people we work with, whether you are an employer seeking new talent or someone looking for a career change. TBP is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our colleagues is critical to our success as a global organisation. Employment at TBP is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of age, race, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.