Global Director of Growth, Heidrick Consulting

Heidrick & Struggles advises Boards, CEOs, and Executive Teams on the high-stakes decisions that shape their organizations. Drawing on decades of experience working with global leaders and teams at the top of organizations, we strengthen enterprise performance by aligning leadership, teams, and strategy to what the business needs to deliver next.

We build well-led organizations. Right people, in the right roles, leading in the right way.

Heidrick Consulting partners with organizations at critical inflection points, helping them develop higher-impact leaders and teams, build performance-oriented cultures, and design intelligent organizations that can execute with clarity and speed. Our work spans leadership appointments and transitions, succession and resilience, performance and team acceleration, and organizational and cultural reinvention when expectations of leaders and outcomes are highest.

It is a practice for people who want to shape consequential decisions, turn deeper insight into performance, and help clients meet higher expectations of their leaders, teams, and organizations.

The global consulting practice operates across three regions (Americas, Europe & Africa, and APAC/ME) and is led by Claire Skinner. We are building an extraordinary place to work for talented professionals, creating a meritocracy where expertise speaks louder than hierarchy and investing in world-class skills, relationships, and insight. It is a great time to join and grow with us. Additional information on the firm can be found at

We are seeking an experienced Global Director of Growth, Heidrick Consulting to build, expand and activate the top of the commercial funnel for Heidrick Consulting globally. This pivotal role will focus on developing deep, productive relationships across Heidrick & Struggles’ Executive Search, Heidrick Consulting and On-Demand Talent businesses, as well as externally with prospective clients and the broader market.

Working at the intersection of commercial strategy and early-stage opportunity creation, the Global Director of Growth will be responsible for identifying, engaging and nurturing existing (repeat) and new client opportunities across all business areas of HC globally. Success in this role will be achieved through disciplined relationship management, targeted outreach, strategic marketing leadership and the continued strengthening of our top-of-funnel engine.

This role reports directly to the Chief Commercial and Operating Officer (CCOO) for Heidrick Consulting and partners closely with Regional Leads (RLs), Centre of Excellence (COE) Leads and the Director of Business Development as well as with the other HC Operations functions. The Global Director of Growth owns the journey from early target identification through qualification; once an opportunity becomes fully qualified, accountability transitions to the Director of Business Development.

The role will partner strongly with Heidrick & Struggles Corporate Marketing to activate campaigns, leverage global marketing and events assets and ensure optimal support and alignment. The position will also provide dotted-line leadership for the Senior Marketing Manager and Sales & Marketing Coordinator and will directly lead a newly created global Lead Generation team, initially focused toward assessment at scale and other at scale offerings within HC (4 roles initially across London and the US).

A key early mandate will be to hire, onboard and build this new team into a high-performing function focused on global net-new opportunity development.

• Continue to build, nurture and expand relationships across Heidrick & Struggles (Search, Consulting, On Demand Talent) to enhance internal collaboration and cross-practice opportunity creation aligned with internal initiatives.
• Shape, drive and deliver strategies targeted at multiple client prospects (repeat and net new) and ensure a seamless transition to the Business Development team at the point a Lead is formally qualified as an Opportunity. (Where a repeat-purchase client engagement is generated through a campaign or marketing event…