Client Partner Zagreb
A Career Built Around Freedom, Impact and Trust
This role is as much about your future lifestyle as it is about your career. Consulting in executive search offers a unique combination of freedom and accountability: the autonomy to manage your own work, priorities and work-life balance, coupled with a clear responsibility to deliver meaningful results for clients.
As a Client Partner, you will become a trusted advisor to senior executives and leadership teams. Drawing on your expertise, judgement and understanding of business, you will work alongside C-level leaders as they navigate organisational change, leadership challenges and critical business decisions. You will be the person they turn to when discussing the future of their organisation, the capabilities they need to build and the leadership required to deliver their ambitions.
Executive search is ultimately about helping clients navigate uncertainty. Who is the right leader for us? What capabilities do we need? How do we minimise the risk of a critical leadership decision? Our role is to provide clarity and confidence in moments where the stakes are high.
We manage risk on behalf of our clients because we understand their organisations, their industries and the leadership markets in which they operate. We know the people, the competitive landscape and, above all, we invest the time to truly understand our clients. That is why they trust us with some of their most important decisions.
As part of a globally respected executive search firm, you will have the platform, heritage and expertise to work on some of the most demanding leadership assignments—locally, regionally and internationally.
Key Responsibilities of a Client Partner at Amrop
- Lead and be accountable for end-to-end executive search recruitment providing in-depth recruiting strategies, candidate assessments, tracking metrics and market intelligence to hiring managers.
- Build trust with both active and passive talent as a tenacious hunter of talent with deep sourcing and market research skills.
- Provide strategic direction and counsel to hiring executives and senior human resources managers regarding recruiting trends, concerns and possibilities for opportunistic hiring, to ensure a positive client experience.
- Manage a thoughtful candidate engagement experience, treating every candidate with respect and care.
- Ensure the presentation of high-quality executive candidates in accordance with diversity and regulatory goals and objectives for both internal and external searches.
- Manage and conduct thorough reference and background checks on final candidates.
- Construct and negotiate complex executive offer packages and facilitate executive onboarding experience to set the new hires up for success.
What we look for in a Client Partner
- A minimum of 10 years of experiences in executive search firm or corporate sales, preferably in a professional services environment selling to family owned and international companies in Croatia or Adriatic region.
- Consultative sales background with demonstrated skills in the area of forecasting, lead generation, prospecting and driving opportunities to closure.
- Well developed pattern of achievement, competitive skills, energy, motivation, enthusiasm and integrity.
- A high sense of urgency, agility and the ability to work under a healthy measure of pressure.
- Self-driven individuals with strong analytical and critical thinking skills, confident, and well-grounded.
- Pleasant and outgoing personality that enable trust-building and credibility with clients, candidates as well as colleagues.
- Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills; must be able to create and deliver compelling sales presentations to both line leadership and senior corporate executives within target companies.
- University degree or higher from a reputable educational institution.
- Fluency in spoken and written Croatian and English.
About the Company
Amrop is a global Executive Search and Leadership Advisory consulting firm, that helps organizations find and develop leaders and shape sustainable success. With 72 offices in 59 countries, Amrop delivers Executive Search Consulting and Leadership Advisory to dynamic organizations globally. We are a values-driven organization and our culture is characterized by our values that are Agility, Curiosity, Excellence, Inclusion, Caring, and Ethics.
Amrop Adria offices were established in 2005 with a dedicated local teams in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia serving the Adriatic region markets. We offer our clients a unique combination of local market expertise that is paired with global reach and standards.
Our business covers three key areas:
- Executive Search Consulting: Where we partner closely with our clients to identify and appoint CEOs and other C-Level Executives.
- Board Services: Where we help our clients build more effective Boards.
- Leadership Advisory Services: Where we offer a comprehensive suite of assessment services related to selection, development and team building.