Principal| Leadership Advisory | London

Our Leadership Advisory teams support the needs of clients who want to elevate the capability of their leaders and organisations to deliver sustainable performance and long‑term value for key stakeholders. We partner with Boards, executive teams, and organisations that recognise exceptional leadership as the defining factor in achieving strategic ambitions and securing enduring success. We provide custom, best‑in‑class solutions across leadership assessment, CEO and executive succession planning, leadership cohort development, executive and team coaching, new leader integration, and Board effectiveness.

Our work enables organisations to make critical talent decisions with insight and confidence, ensuring they have the leadership strength required to navigate complexity and continuous change. We operate as an integrated team, drawing on the combined expertise of our partners, colleagues, and clients, and leveraging the most advanced tools, instruments, and advisory methodologies.

This is a standout opportunity to join a market‑leading team delivering some of the most high-profile, senior, complex, and impactful work. The practice is in a period of significant growth, and as part of this momentum, we are seeking to appoint an additional team member to help us continue delivering outstanding leadership advisory solutions across succession, executive and team coaching, leadership assessment, Board engagement, and strategic alignment.

• Lead business development activity, forging and nurturing client relationships, defining suitable services, and executing client projects.
• Execute high-quality, creative work while providing guidance and support to other members of the team.
• Cultivate enduring relationships with clients, candidates, and internal stakeholders, establishing a robust personal brand known for delivering exceptional advice and services.
• Embrace a highly collaborative approach - actively introducing colleagues from different Practices to our teams’ work, and vice versa.
• Gain comprehensive insights into client organisations to strategically broaden our service offerings while proactively reducing risks for their businesses.
• Play a vital role in a high-performing team, bringing fresh ideas and innovation to every aspect of your work while contributing to the achievement of our team goals.
• Mentor and develop team members, growing and retaining a diverse and talented team across the firm.
• Contribute to the strategy for the UK team and the global Leadership Advisory and Assessment offering.

Proven capability to interact with senior stakeholders, including board members and executives, with a focus on building trusted advisory relationships with top leaders. Demonstrated excellence in client assignments, bringing insights and innovation to create business development opportunities. Strong consulting skills, capable of managing projects from conception to successful completion, with excellent timing, judgement, patience, and determination to overcome obstacles. An entrepreneurial mindset, with a high level of self‑starting energy and a strong ability to collaborate with colleagues. An ability to work autonomously, in a flat, non-hierarchical company structure with a culture of unity and collaboration. Intellectually curious with a broad outlook, bringing creative thinking, common sense, and an open mind. Experience addressing and talent challenges, developing effective solutions, and successfully influencing others to support your initiatives. Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to work with many different people, demonstrating your commitment to inclusion and diversity. An openness to question perspectives and share valuable insights, all while maintaining humility.

Odgers is one of the world’s leading Global Executive Search firms. Our reputation for excellence and integrity has been established over 60 years and we are a partnership-driven by the client, candidate, and employee experience. We function as trusted advisors to our clients and candidates and engage with a diverse range of leaders for the most influential roles across a wide variety of industries. The service we deliver is creative, insightful, and most importantly, in partnership; we pride ourselves on maintaining personal relationships.

At Odgers, we are proud of our progressive, diverse, meritocratic, and collaborative culture where you will find support, training and career development working with colleagues striving for excellence in all they do. We are UK headquartered with colleagues across 58 Offices in 32 countries specialising in over 50 sectors and functions.

Our Hybrid working policy is based on the principles of empowerment, mutual trust and flexibility, recognising that we work best when we make choices about when, where and how we work. At the same time, we are reminded that time together is so important. We are a client-service business in which our relationships and our culture provide a significant advantage. Our offices remain critical to how we work; they are a place for collaboration, learning, and support and an anchor for the culture of which we are so proud. We operate a hybrid working model which would typically see you spending a minimum of 3 days working from the office and the rest remotely. Your work pattern will be reliant on business demands, and we would expect you to manage your time accordingly.

At Odgers, we are committed to fostering a work environment that is safe and respectful of all individuals. We have and will always stand with and support the inclusion and equity of our colleagues, candidates and clients and are committed to improving diversity in all its forms within Odgers. Unlimited embodies this philosophy and our commitment to inclusion. We have several initiatives that ensure equity is practised at all levels of our organisation, including our Allies programme, an equitable recruitment process designed to ensure opportunity, our Next Generation council and a meritocratic promotion process.

Modern businesses have a duty to be environmentally responsible and operate sustainably. We believe this represents not only sound commercial sense but also recognises our ethical responsibility to minimise the impact of our activities on the environment and to leave a positive legacy for future generations. We have committed to, and set, science-based decarbonisation targets, and have received verification of these goals from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). These targets will hold us accountable to our sustainability strategy while enabling us to measure our progress. This is complemented by us continuing to provide sustainability insight to our clients and cultivating a track record within sustainable businesses and in placing sustainability leaders.

We take Charity seriously – but like to have fun too. Our CSR team are always thinking up new events and activities to get involved in and raise funds for our chosen charity British Heart Foundation. We also have a variety of social clubs and learning opportunities to suit everyone such as the Brunch and Learn Session, Odgers choir, the book club or one of the many sports clubs Whats on offer?

A competitive base salary, supplemented by our benefits package and discretionary bonus:

• 25 days Annual leave + 3 gift days for the Christmas closure + bank holidays
• Private Medical Insurance with Bupa and cash plan with Simply Health
• Group Company Pension
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to work scheme
• Give As You Earn
• Group Income Protection
• Group Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Charity Day
• Wellbeing Programmes, support and speakers
• On-boarding, induction training and ongoing professional development
• Corporate member discounts and benefits available through Bupa and Simply Health including Gyms Discounts

We are committed to ensuring everyone can access our website and application processes. This includes people with sight loss, hearing, mobility and cognitive impairments. Should you require access to these documents in alternative formats, need to apply in a different format or need any reasonable adjustments made for any interview please contact our Talent Team at careers@odgers.com. If you have any comments and/or suggestions about improving access to our application processes, please don't hesitate to contact us at careers@odgers.com.

You must be eligible to live and work in the UK.