Executive Search Service Recruiter

Job Title

Executive Search Service Recruiter

Overview

In 2024, we launched our strategic People Agenda with a focus on delivering sustainable impact through three pillars: Grow Our People, Ignite Our Culture, and Simplify How We Work, guided by our commitment to Impact with Care. To be aligned with our Philips Operating Model with the business in the lead, we simplify and synchronize how we as People function deliver our services to our audiences (businesses, people and people leaders) with the goal of being more people-centric and delivering the best people experience possible. Enterprise People Strategy defines our People Strategy, focusing on enterprise and cross functional priorities and meeting the needs of internal senior leadership and external stakeholders. Enterprise Talent & Search focuses on executive audiences, integrating Talent Management and Recruitment for senior leadership positions. Within this team, Executive Search specializes in actively recruiting senior leadership talent using proactive headhunting, talent pipelining, market insights, and candidate intelligence across geographies and time zones.

Role

We are seeking to recruit an experienced and highly motivated Executive Recruiter to join the Executive Search team. You will help solve senior leadership searches while collaborating with the Executive Search Consultant on a primary portfolio. You will recruit the best talent for senior level roles and become an essential member of the Executive Search team. The role combines research, assessment and relationship-building to deliver exceptional service and value to hiring teams. The position is highly visible within the organization and with leadership.

How this role works

Depending on the search mandate and audience, you may lead executive search mandates and drive end-to-end delivery, or team up with an Executive Search Consultant to drive the search to completion. You will work closely with business leaders and people partners to ensure consistent delivery and deep insights from an overarching account perspective.

For other mandates, you will collaborate with an Executive Search Consultant and contribute to end-to-end delivery. You will participate in kickoff meetings, develop search strategies, and advise hiring teams on marketplace trends and insights. You will contribute to preparation of position specifications, candidate presentations, client progress and reference reports.

Throughout active searches and talent pipeline projects, you will build a proactive executive-level candidate pipeline and engage top talent using strategic recruiting methods and channels, while conducting structured screening and assessments to identify top candidates.

You will proactively reach out to key executives, assess talent against search criteria, validate candidates through references, and partner with the Consultant to present a slate of qualified candidates to the hiring team. You will maintain close contact with candidates, informing them of process progress and supporting final stages of the search. You will help drive deliverables and prepare necessary documentation.

You will develop market intelligence on executives and executive-ready talent, share insights with the global Executive Search team, and package information for executive leadership. You will strive to become a true subject matter expert in Executive Search intelligence, insights, and recruiting strategies.

Key responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Executive Search Consultant to drive advisory and execution for the global account portfolio, generating insights and recommendations on talent needs and opportunities to exchange and introduce talent.
• Define executive hiring needs and deliver cost-effective, results-oriented executive search strategies that yield personalized experiences and hires.
• Drive search execution in collaboration with the Consultant or independently across a global portfolio and time zones.
• Contribute to start-up phases of searches (kick-off meetings, defining roles, strategy, and target companies).
• Identify, engage, and attract exceptional and diverse executive-level talent via various channels with a direct, personalized approach.
• Assess prospects against key criteria and guide the hiring process toward qualified candidates.
• Provide data and insights to influence successful completion (compensation data, background and reference checks, etc.).
• Drive client updates and reporting in line with global templates while ensuring data quality in Philips’ executive candidate database.
• Continuously build market, talent, and Executive Search expertise and engage with executives to build a strong talent pool.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Talent Management, People Business Partners, and Rewards Services to support executive offers and critical roles.
• Maintain proactive candidate identification and pipelines to support future needs.
• Add to Philips’ executive candidate pool by keeping assignment and candidate information up to date in the database.

Key relationships

• Global Executive Search team
• People Business Partners, People Leader Partners
• Senior Leadership
• Rewards, Innovation & Experience

Jobs to be done

• Deeply know the market: stay up to date on industry trends, external insights on competitors and the talent landscape for executive search.
• Deeply know the business: build business acumen and leverage external intelligence to advise on talent topics and influence hiring strategies.
• Deeply know the talent: develop a strong network of talents and relationships, understand their motivations and career goals.
• Deeply care about the experience: deliver a structured, high-quality executive search with focus on candidate and client experience and data quality.

Reports to

Executive Search Consultant

Ideal experience

• 7+ years of progressive recruiting experience recruiting executive level talent, both on the agency side and in-house.
  • Retained search agency experience required.
  • Experience supporting pitches and negotiations; bringing in new searches is a plus.
  • Direct experience on healthcare industry searches is preferred.
• Experience developing global recruitment strategies with passive recruiting skills.
• Proven ability to build pipelines of executive talent using complex internet searches, networks, and research.
• Proven track record delivering high-quality pipelines under tight timelines.
• Engaging recruiter able to establish rapport with challenging executives and build trust.
• Experience in assessment using behavioral-based interviewing.
• High proficiency with CRM or executive search database tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; fluency in English required.
• Ability to work globally across time zones.
• Minimum MA/MSc degree required.

Superpowers and critical capabilities

Business acumen

• Deep understanding of industry, marketplace and business to align executive hiring with organizational goals.

Driving results/Project Management

• End-to-end project ownership, fast pace, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing deadlines.
• Strong results focus, enterprise project management, and commitment to candidate/hiring-team experience and operational excellence.

Talent ambassador

• Candidate-centric mindset and building trust-based relationships with talent.
• Understand and guide talent in careers and motivations, ensuring alignment with business needs.

Trusted advisor to senior audiences

• Ability to influence senior leaders with credibility and subject-matter expertise; strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Distill complex information clearly for senior stakeholders.

Market and Candidate Knowledge

• Use data and insights to influence decisions; leverage market benchmarks and analytics to optimize search strategies and candidate knowledge.
• Stay up to date on industry trends and benchmarks; seek feedback and grow professionally.
• Have genuine interest in people and businesses.

Resilience

• High resilience to work with demanding stakeholders at pace and under tight deadlines; navigate ambiguity and translate priorities into practical talent solutions.

How we work together

We believe we are better together. For office-based teams, in-person presence is expected at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in company facilities. Field roles are often outside main facilities, at customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company focused on making quality healthcare accessible to all. Learn more about our business, history, and purpose. If you’re interested in this role and have many but not all of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. We are committed to diversity and inclusion.