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What You'll Do
The Staffing function is the holistic owner of key components of the BCG consulting team employee experience. Most notably, the function drives the development and deployment of BCG’s most important asset – its people – while owning overall business objectives (e.g. staff utilization, project team balance). The Talent Senior Specialist - People will play a key role in driving strategic and operational support for the Staffing function in the Talent Management team within BCG’s West system, while also serving as a team member of the larger consulting talent community in North America.
The Talent Senior Specialist- People will partner with and coach individuals on their staffing, development, and career navigation with some support and oversight from senior Talent Management staff as appropriate. Additionally, a large portion of this person’s time will be spent driving end-to-end operations for the dynamic allocation and prioritization of business development resources and managing other system priorities (e.g. summer intern staffing).
The role is ideal for someone passionate about a career in the HR/People space, and who thrives in fast-paced environments while maintaining a keen attention to detail. A qualified candidate is a strategic thinker who can effectively prioritize competing tasks and collaborate with, influence and manage stakeholders (including all levels of Consulting staff + Business Services Team members across key functions like Finance/HR) to meet the needs of individual consultants, the firm, and our clients.
You're good at
In the Talent Senior Specialist - People role, you would focus your time and talents on:
- Building a keen understanding of consultant experience including the type of case work and toolkit needed for success; leverage understanding to provide sound advice and judgement for case opportunities
- Deploying a specific roster of consulting resources, ensuring each resource receives the right set of projects to support their development & professional goals; communicating opportunities to roster and communicating roster’s skills & experience for projects looking for staff. Typically holds a smaller roster size of junior consulting team members relative to larger roster sizes held by more senior talent managers
- Supporting CDC (Career Development Committee) by speaking to individual staff’s deployment, performance, and trajectory; surfacing themes and calibrating outcomes across the cohort; and implementing consistent policies and procedures in line with regional and global guidelines on promotion timing, criteria, and termination
- Building a strong relationship with roster as trusted advisor to understand their needs, preferences, and constraints; signing off on staffing decisions, communicating decisions and rationale; progressively able to strategically advise roster on staffing and mobility choices; helping them navigate their personal learning & development, connecting them to beneficial programs and services
- Monitoring staff across key aspects of morale, retention, and affiliation; bubbling up trends and providing analytic support and ownership of projects related to office morale, culture, and feedback
- Developing fluency with finance and business mechanics to understand the impact each individual staffing decision has on cohort, roster, office, and ultimately system success
- Collaborating with other functions at relevant points of intersection (Career Development, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Teaming@BCG, Career Services, Finance, etc.)
- Ensuring all staff have fair access to all opportunities; partner with diversity network owners and mentors to drive inclusion for individuals, including proactive retention based on individual needs
- Coordinating inputs and outputs with a diverse group of stakeholders at various levels of seniority; work as a team contributor within local, system, regional, and global staffing structures to ensure day-to-day outcomes are in line with policies
- Leveraging digital tools and access to People and Finance reports to ensure data-driven decision making
What You'll Bring
- Prior experience at a consulting firm and/or in an HR, Consulting, Talent or Finance role is preferred
- 4+ years’ total work experience
- Undergraduate degree required
- Thrives in a fast-paced, global, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment, keeping with BCG's values and culture
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate confidently and articulately with all organizational levels inside and outside BCG via positive and productive working relationships, influencing others while simultaneously maintaining own flexibility
- Maturity that engenders respect and trust from others; good judgment, professionalism, integrity, and the ability to maintain absolute confidentiality
- Comfortable in resolving conflict, delivering difficult messages and addressing all people related issues
- An actively collaborative team player who leverages slide writing, organizational, analytical, and project management skills to seek innovative and creative solutions and incremental improvements
- Comfortable both working in detail and understanding the big picture; able to consider the ramifications of decisions on various constituencies
- Autonomous, able to tolerate ambiguity, self-motivated; receptive to feedback & quick to action it; can-do attitude and a creative solution seeker
Who You'll Work With
In this role, you will report to the Seattle Talent Manager and partner with the West Talent Managers and Talent Director to support the consulting cohorts, focusing on the needs of the firm, cohort and individuals.
Additional info
**Format Information: **
At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person work is essential to our culture, mentorship, and professional development. That's why we operate on a hybrid model, with the expectation that team members will be in the office 3 to 5 days per week. This role is designed for those who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment and is not intended for remote or virtual work.
**Compensation Information: **
Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.
The base salary range for this role is $103,000-$127,000 (USD).
This is an estimated range and specific base salaries within the range depend on factors such as office location, experience, and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.
In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a discretionary bonus of up to 12% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.
At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees – and their eligible family members.* That’s zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks.
All of our plans provide best in class coverage:
- Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
- Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
- Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)
- Paid sick time on an as needed basis
*Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
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