The HR Executive Advisor (EA) serves as a seasoned strategic partner to HR leaders, combining contextual HR expertise with McLean & Company's research, diagnostics, and benchmarking data to help clients drive measurable organizational outcomes. The EA helps clients prioritize what matters most, turn research-backed strategies into functional impact, and ensure full McLean membership value is realized against their most pressing HR and business priorities.
Main Responsibilities- Building trusted advisory relationships with clients, serving as a dedicated strategic partner who contextualizes McLean research to their specific organizational priorities and challenges.
- Conducting in-depth discovery with each client to understand their organizational priorities and developing tailored strategic guidance that applies the right McLean research, diagnostics, and frameworks to their specific context; bridging access to content with actionable outcomes.
- Proactively partnering with the Sales team to ensure client focus, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring account health, as well as joining proof-of-concept calls.
- Providing proactive, ongoing strategic advisory touchpoints (at minimum quarterly) to track progress against client priorities, surface emerging challenges, and continuously apply McLean research to where it will have the greatest organizational impact.
- Delivering strategic advisory sessions on priority HR topics; leading diagnostic debriefs to translate data into clear organizational action; and facilitating discussions that connect McLean research to clients' specific initiative priorities.
- Facilitating McLean & Company webinars and roundtables for members and prospects, primarily in a virtual setting.
- Providing insight to the broader HR Research team on client needs and HR industry trends.
- Managing a defined book of business, with accountability for retention, account health, and identifying growth opportunities through deep client partnership.
- Ensuring an exceptional client experience through collaboration, CRM administration, and participation in special projects as required.
- Participation in occasional McLean & Company in-person events (e.g. Annual Signature Conference) with comfort in public speaking including keynotes, panels and roundtable sessions.
- Occasional candidate interviews, research input, and new team member mentoring.
Required Qualifications- 8-10 years of progressive HR experience, including 3-5 years leading an HR team or functional HR area (e.g. VP or Director level), with preference for experience in large (1,000+ employee) organizations and exposure to global HR environments.
- Broad subject matter expertise across multiple HR disciplines, with the ability to contextualize research to clients' specific organizational challenges and translate best practices into actionable priorities.
Competencies- Proven ability to build and maintain trusted advisory relationships with HR leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Ability to provide contextualized, evidence-informed strategic guidance -- applying pattern recognition from broad HR experience to clients' specific organizational priorities, not just sharing research content.
- Collaborative, with superior listening, critical thinking, influencing, and verbal/written communication skills.
- Independent self-starter with strong project management skills and the ability to manage a high-volume client portfolio.
- Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, flexible, and rapidly changing work environment.
- Strong intellectual curiosity and commitment to staying current on HR and business trends, with a genuine interest in how people strategy drives organizational performance.
- Strong business acumen and understanding of organizational dynamics, including how HR leaders build influence, secure cross-functional alignment, and demonstrate measurable impact to senior leadership.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a matrixed organizational environment.
- Demonstrated ability to help clients prioritize initiatives, make trade-offs, and direct organizational attention toward what delivers the greatest measurable impact.
Other- Manage a portfolio of executive-level client relationships
- Operate in a dynamic, fast-paced, and highly client-focused environment
- Flexibility to support clients across time zones and outside of standard business hours when required
- Must be eligible to work in the country hired in
- Occasional travel required.
