Principal, Leadership Practice
About The Position
The Principal is a senior client, delivery, and business leader within Pearl Meyer’s Leadership Practice. The role is accountable for a portfolio of complex engagements, strategic client relationships, and growth. Principals contribute directly to senior client delivery with judgment, content depth, and presence, while guiding Engagement Leaders, Client Success Team members, and the broader delivery team to produce outstanding work. The position transitions from ownership of individual projects to leadership across a portfolio of relationships, work, people, and commercial opportunities while remaining actively involved in client delivery. Principals are trusted experts in their areas of expertise and may represent Pearl Meyer in external forums or as expert practitioners on pitch teams.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to lead multiple and/or complex engagements, personally deliver in high-value senior client situations, advise senior executives, manage important client relationships, and guide teams through ambiguity while maintaining quality and economics.
- Strong record of people leadership, client development, commercial contribution, and subject-matter depth.
- Evidence of growing effectiveness as a seller, either as a business originator or farmer, and as a firm leader.
Responsibilities
- Lead a portfolio of complex engagements while personally contributing to high-value client delivery and ensuring quality, sound economics, effective teams, and meaningful client impact.
- Connect client mandates to broader strategic priorities and counsel senior executives.
- Guide teams through complex problems, shape end-to-end solutions, and lead critical client discussions, facilitation, synthesis, and advisory moments.
- Lead account planning, convert opportunities, and build an initial book of business as an increasingly effective lead seller.
- Develop people through coaching, performance management, stretch opportunities, and investment in their growth.
- Build content depth and market visibility, and help create differentiated Pearl Meyer knowledge and solutions.
- Lead Practice and firm initiatives and strengthen collaboration across Leadership and Executive Compensation.
Benefits
- Medical insurance, including prescription coverage
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Commuter Account
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Group Accident and Group Critical Illness coverage
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Group Legal
- Identity Theft Protection
- Wellbeing Program and Work/Life Resources, including Employee Assistance Program
- Paid holidays and annual paid time off, including paid state/local leave where required
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
- Other leaves, including bereavement, FMLA, ADA, jury duty, military, parental, and adoption leave
- 401(k) savings plan
- Annual short-term incentive bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
