LAS Senior Associate (Solutions Hub)

At Spencer Stuart, our Solutions represent our commitment to continuous improvement, collaboration, and excellence across our organization, and our Solutions Hub is the enabling function that will allow us to bring the best possible market-ready solutions to our clients.

The role of the solutions hub Senior Associate has the following responsibilities:

• Works with the Methodologies Lead and the team on both the 1-2 year horizon and the 3+ year horizon, supporting the development, standardization and maintenance of state-of-the-art assessment methodologies and tools, ensuring they are and remain reliable, relevant and valid
• Leads on workstreams and sprints, such as EXI 3.0; assessment protocols; context diagnostic; career diagnostic; reporting; ensures timely delivery and effective teaming
• Works with the Spencer Stuart Technology team to evolve and maintain a global database; analyses data to inform thought leadership or new solutions (together with the Data & Insights lead)
• Analyses psychometric properties of the tools including reliability, usability, validity; developing or updating technical manuals and user/practitioner guides
• Supports individual development workstream

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Five or more years of experience in executive assessment, leadership advisory or other professional services settings
• An advanced degree from a highly competitive university in Organizational psychology or related field
• Certification or experience using psychometrics, such as Hogan, OPQ or Sova PQ

ADVANTAGEOUS EXPERIENCE

• PhD in Organizational Psychology or related field
• Developing or validating assessment tools or other psychometrics
• Direct interaction or experience with executive-level clients

CRITICAL CAPABILITIES FOR SUCCESS

• Passion for and expertise in assessments and psychometrics
• Result-focused, learning-oriented, self-driven, and pro-active
• Ability to take the lead on, shape, bring structure to and deliver on ambiguous initiatives
• Great collaborator and relationship builder
• Strong critical and conceptual thinker
• Excellent written and spoken knowledge of the English language

PREFERRED CAPABILITIES

• Proficiency in statistics and use of statistical packages including SPSS and SAS
• Superior business writing skills, as evidenced through project work or writing samples to be provided upon request.
• General business acumen, as defined by a keen and quick understanding of a range of business situations/contexts
• Written and spoken command of additional languages besides English