Consulting Team Talent Senior Specialist

Consulting Team Talent Senior Specialist

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Owning and driving the end-to-end process of short-term staffing in the time between formal assignments for consultants, communicating and coordinating with consulting staff and Talent Managers – prioritizing demands in real time as needed
• Owning and driving the summer staffing process for the system, including coordination with stakeholders (summer interns, consulting staff, case team leaders, NAMR Talent Managers, etc.)
• 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; communicate opportunities to roster and communicate 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 to understand their needs, preferences, and constraints; sign 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; bubble up trends and provide analytic support and ownership of projects related to office morale, culture, and feedback
• Develop 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience at a consulting firm and/or in an HR, Consulting, Talent or Finance role is preferred