Principal – Athens, Greece


Are you an experienced executive search professional looking for a role where you can truly make an impact? Join our team in Athens as a Principal, where you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality search assignments while shaping the future of leadership talent.

In this role, you’ll take the lead on end-to-end search execution, working independently while collaborating closely with our Originators. Your deep industry and functional expertise will allow you to provide exceptional client service and deliver outstanding results. You’ll be recognized as a trusted market expert, ensuring a high success rate in placements and consistently strong client satisfaction.

Beyond executing searches, you’ll have the opportunity to engage directly with clients, strengthen existing relationships, and even contribute to business development when capacity allows. If you’re looking for a dynamic environment where your expertise is valued and your career can thrive, we’d love to hear from you!

Role Objective:

The Principal is responsible for delivering executive search and leadership advisory projects to their successful completion by ensuring “best in class” client and candidate management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensures timely and successful execution of executive search and leadership advisory assignments.
  • Leads high-quality discussions with clients, leveraging deep market expertise and industry knowledge to provide strategic insights.
  • Executes the full search lifecycle, including market mapping, candidate identification and engagement, in-depth interviews, preparation of confidential candidate reports, reference checks, and timely delivery of results.
  • Conducts regular progress meetings with clients to review strategy and provide market intelligence and recommendations.
  • Manages the candidate journey throughout the selection process: keeping candidates informed, preparing them for interviews, and delivering final feedback.
  • Prepares structured and insightful candidate reports for client update meetings.
  • Acts as liaison between client and candidate, including managing compensation negotiations on behalf of the client.
  • Continuously seeks to improve search methodologies and execution processes to enhance quality and efficiency.
  • Achieves strong client satisfaction and fosters repeat business through consistent performance and relationship management.
  • Supervises team members’ work, providing feedback and training to facilitate their professional growth.
  • Commits to ongoing professional development and industry knowledge enhancement.
  • Ensures comprehensive candidate/client database management

Role Requirements:

  • University Degree ideally at the MSc level
  • Five to ten years of industry or consulting experience and ideally exposure to one or more of the industries which comprise the core practice groups of the company (Consumer Goods, Life Sciences, Industrial Manufacturing, Financial Services, Technology)
  • Ability to interact with C-level stakeholders of client companies at a high level
  • Ability to manage challenging projects and clients
  • Fluency in English is mandatory (verbal and written)
  • Self-motivated, results driven, strong client orientation, advanced problem-solving ability, excellent communication skills

Who is SpenglerFox?

At SpenglerFox we celebrate the diversity of our customers and our employees. We employ people from all backgrounds. Established in 2003, SpenglerFox has grown to become a global provider of premium human capital solutions, independently owned and managed. Each of our Partners has been part of SpenglerFox for over seven years and, like the rest of our global team of over 200 consultants and researchers, brings a wealth of experience and expertise gathered from working in a wide range of industries. It is this depth and breadth of industry knowledge, together with our deeply embedded duty of care to our clients and candidates, which ensures that we are fully committed to discovering, developing, and deploying the best talent to our clients so that they can succeed in these challenging times

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