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Executive Talent Attraction Consultant
(Global Talent Attraction & Acquisition Services)
Rank: Assistant Director
The Opportunity
The recruitment landscape is changing rapidly, to ensure we are equipped to capitalize on this 
evolution, EY is expanding our Executive Talent Attraction and Acquisition global team (GTA2S) to 
ensure we can continue to engage, attract and retain the world’s most exceptional and diverse talent. 
This team collaborates with our Regional, Area and Global leadership teams in EMEIA and APAC to 
deliver an integrated, agile and insights driven approach to Partner Recruitment. 
The executive talent acquisition (recruiting) team supports Executive recruitment, designing and 
delivering sourcing strategies to connect with talent for niche and emerging skill sets. Talent Attraction 
roles help shape the EY organisation of the future, facing the market and assisting through targeted 
search activity, market insights and team lifts.
We seek individuals who can partner strategically with service lines (SL) in the business, delivering 
innovative talent acquisition for Executive hiring. These roles suit people with an innovation mindset 
combined with experience in delivering through tested methodologies; we need people who can 
collaborate within a global team but drive exceptional outcomes in their portfolio, building relationships 
of trust. 
About you:
This role will be required to work independently to drive projects and create solutions and robust 
candidate pipeline to fulfill our growing hiring needs at a service line level. Responding to priorities, 
providing advice to hiring teams, and acting as an in-market resource for the SL, Talent, and Executive 
recruiting teams.
Responsibilities:
• Core activities will be “in market” candidate engagement. 
• The priority of activity should be where there is “urgency” to hire, or complexity of sourcing activity 
is present (Team lifts, team builds, multi-geography hiring or meeting our DEI hiring objectives)
• Working in tight collaboration with the Executive Recruiter and Exec Talent Attraction Leadership to 
define a sourcing strategy for the service line, driving innovation and working on projects to lead 
new ways of working for executive hiring
• Leveraging their research, pipelining and engagement activity to support the projects. 
• Provide leadership of SL Insights activity, becoming a focal point of contact for this activity –
freeing the time of our executive recruiters and advising the Hiring partners and SL and SSL leaders 
in the area
• This role will be measured on candidates that are hired through their direct contact, market insights 
work delivered, and the quality of the candidate conversion rates as well as linked to overall vendor 
spend % targets
• Promote the development of market brand campaigns for the service line – progressing this activity 
with stakeholders
• This role will additionally be accountable for advancing our DEI hiring agenda 
Requirements
• You will be a seasoned professional, experienced in a search firm or in-house recruiting team 
(ideally both) delivering on complex, Executive Recruiting projects, ideally within professional 
services or consulting
• Experience in managing complex client and stakeholder relationships
• Experience in navigating a large matrix structure with a proven ability to resolve organizational 
conflicts
• Expertise in a range of sourcing methodologies, both advertising and search led, team lifts, 
headhunting
• High level of business acumen and professional gravitas
• Demonstrated creativity and a personal drive to innovate
• A high level of capability and versatility in communication, both written and verbal, to allow rapport 
building across a range of demographics
• An ability to rapidly assimilate information and develop robust knowledge in a range of markets and 
technical functions to enable effective sourcing and assessment of required skills and capabilities
• A global mindset, and the willingness and ability to team globally with dispersed and centralised 
teams.
• Besides English, a second language skill is preferred.

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