Senior Associate / Engagement Manager, Executive Search & Leadership Advisory

Senior Associate / Engagement Manager, Executive Search & Leadership Advisory

Malaysia | Fully Remote

Selion Global is a partner-led retained executive search and leadership advisory firm working with boards and chief executives across founder-led, listed and investor-backed businesses globally.

We are looking for a Senior Associate / Engagement Manager to work directly with the leadership of the firm, taking a central role in the execution of senior mandates.

This is a fully remote role based in Malaysia. It will suit someone who works exceptionally well independently, enjoys an international context and wants to remain close to the substance of the work.

This is not an Executive Assistant role, nor is it a research-only position.

The work sits between partner, client, candidate and market.

The role

You will help carry mandates from their opening conversation through to completion. You will know where an engagement stands, what has been agreed, where judgement is still required and what needs to happen next.

You will prepare client updates and briefing materials, develop market and candidate perspectives, draft correspondence, coordinate the progression of an engagement and ensure that commitments are followed through with care and precision.

You will work directly with chairs, chief executives, senior candidates and partners across markets. Much of that contact will be yours to handle.

Judgement matters. So does service. At this level, the quality of an advisory firm is experienced not only through the advice itself, but through the standard of every interaction, the precision of its work and the confidence that important things will be handled properly.

Market intelligence is integral to the role. You will be expected to build a rigorous, independent view of a market, drawing on networks, research, data and advanced digital and AI-enabled tools with equal fluency. You should be as comfortable interrogating the underlying evidence yourself as synthesising it for a partner or client. The standard is not the volume of information gathered, but the quality of the judgement drawn from it.

The materials leaving the firm under our name should be accurate, thoughtful and ready to send.

Who we are looking for

Retained executive search or leadership advisory experience is required.

We are open to candidates currently operating at Senior Associate or Engagement Manager level. What matters is the ability to combine hands-on execution with ownership of the wider engagement.

You will have worked at the senior end of the market, ideally alongside partners handling board, CEO or senior leadership assignments.

You are at ease engaging with senior people and write with clarity, judgement and an instinct for tone.

You are highly digitally fluent and genuinely AI-savvy. You use contemporary tools intelligently to deepen research, sharpen synthesis and improve the quality and pace of execution.

Above all, you take ownership. You notice what is missing, anticipate what will be needed and are comfortable operating with a high degree of trust.

This role will suit someone who enjoys being very close to the work and would like to become an important part of a lean, senior, international practice.

Applying

Please send your CV to talent@selionglobal.com.

Applications submitted through LinkedIn Easy Apply will not be considered.

With your CV, send us a short note of no more than 200 words:

Tell us about a search or piece of work where you became the person who held the whole thing together. What did you do, and what did you see or anticipate that others did not?

We read the note before the CV. Please write it in your own words.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.