Senior Client Director

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. Korn Ferry works with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people. Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries.

Korn Ferry Digital is a scaled product business unit within Korn Ferry that develops and sells our suite of talent products and HR technology, supporting clients across six solution areas:

• Organizational Strategy
• Assessment and Succession
• Talent Acquisition
• Leadership and Professional Development
• Sales and Service
• Total Rewards

Our comprehensive talent suite leverages a combination of proprietary talent IP, talent data, analytics, and insights to help customers understand their workforce and existing talent gaps and deliver targeted talent interventions at scale using HR technology.

Within the assessment & succession solution, Korn Ferry Digital offers KF Assess and KF Select, cutting-edge tools designed to evaluate and identify talent across various levels within an organization. KF Assess provides comprehensive insights into employee capabilities and potential, aiding in leadership development and succession planning. KF Select streamlines the hiring process by offering data-driven candidate assessments to ensure the best fit for the role. The growth of KF Digital in this area is driven by the integration of these solutions with advanced analytics, enabling organizations to make informed talent decisions and foster leadership pipelines effectively.

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The Senior Director Assessment & Succession is a senior individual contributor commercial role, critical to accelerating KF Digital's Assessment & Succession business. In this role, you will have direct responsibility for leading and growing the Assessment & Succession in your assigned territory. You will closely collaborate with Korn Ferry teams across lines of business, including Consulting, Digital Delivery and Customer Success. You will lead by example in fostering a culture of execution excellence, innovation, and customer obsession. This role demands a seasoned sales professional with a strong track record in building key accounts within a book of business, leading complex enterprise sales, connecting market dynamics to long-term strategy, and consistently delivering predictable business performance.

Key Responsibilities

Commercial Strategy & Execution

• Applies strategic thinking in building key account plans leveraging industry insights, tech tools, etc. anticipating evolving customer needs.
• Research, prioritise and develop strategy and short-med-long term execution plans at a territory and key account levels that drives growth, market share, and customer impact.
• Own enterprise sales execution: lead from the front on major opportunities in close collaboration with Consulting, Delivery and Customer Success teams.
• Customer-centric and strong commercial acumen in developing compelling proposals and pitch decks - linking A&S's product proposition to customer value with clear ROI.

Customer & Market Engagement

• Market and product expert. Able to represent the company in industry forums, executive roundtables, and customer engagements.
• Build and nurture a senior-level client and industry network to shape pipeline and growth opportunities.
• Understand the broader partner-ecosystem - established and emerging. Build and nurture key partner relationships in line with joint go-to-market plans.
• Partner cross-functionally (e.g. with Consulting, Delivery, Marketing, and Customer Success) to align efforts and deliver superior customer value.

Operational Excellence & Forecasting

• Possess deep business and technical expertise, quickly adapts to new methods, and drives operational excellence through continuous learning
• Establish operational rigour around pipeline build and management, sales forecasting, and Salesforce hygiene.
• Consistently achieves key performance expectations including quarterly quota attainment.
• Understands profitability requirements of the A&S business.

About You

• Experience: 10+ years in B2B sales, including experience in Assessments, HRTech and HCM area. Sound business judgment and insight, strong conceptual and analytical skills, and the ability to work well under pressure.
• Commercial Acumen: Demonstrated ability to construct value-based commercial proposals and pitches. Proven success managing large, complex enterprise sales cycles and delivering against ambitious targets.
• Strategic Insight: Able to connect the dots across trends, signals, and customer needs to shape the future state of the business.
• Sales Methodology: Deep familiarity in using Miller Heiman or similar methodology and frameworks, with a track record of instilling rigor and predictability.
• Data & Tech Fluency: Confident using analytics, insights, and sales tech to drive decisions, coach teams, and execute strategy.

Internal Mobility at Korn Ferry

If you currently work for Korn Ferry or one of our affiliates, you must be eligible to apply for a different position within Korn Ferry to use the Careers Site. If you accept such a position, your benefits programs and Human Resources policies may change. Please consult with your HR contact for the new position concerning application eligibility, including any immigration/visa needs, benefit programs, and HR policies applicable to that position.

Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

The successful candidate will need to complete background checks as part of our recruitment process, this may include criminal, education credentials, employment history, and other background information relevant to your employment qualifications