Consulting Team Talent Manager

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What You’ll Do

Consulting Team Talent Managers act as holistic owners of the Consulting Team employment experience with a close focus on the deployment and professional development of our consulting staff.

Talent Managers drive overall objectives of the business (e.g., team balance and staff utilization) and identify patterns across their roster to drive strategies while partnering with individuals in their staffing, development, and career navigation. In addition, this role operates as a team member of the larger consulting talent community in North America.

You’re good at

In the Talent Manager role, you would focus your time and talents on:

• 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
• Optimizing team deployment design as needed, in line with view of overall project pipeline, balancing business priorities with specific project and staff needs; thought partner to project team leadership in evaluating options & understanding impact on economics and team balance
• 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; advising them on staffing and mobility choices and communicating decisions and rationale; helping them navigate their personal learning & development, connecting them to beneficial programs and services
• Collaborating with other functions at relevant points of intersection (Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Teaming@BCG, Career Services, Finance, etc.)
• 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
• 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
• Leveraging digital tools and appropriately influencing at the local level to ensure adoption and consistency
• 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

What You’ll Bring

• Prior experience at a consulting firm, in an HR, Consulting, Talent, or Finance role is preferred
• 5+ years’ total work experience
• Advanced Degree (Master’s, etc.) preferred but not 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 partner with Southwest Talent Senior Managers and the Austin office Business Management 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 $104,600-$129,200 (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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