Consulting Team Talent Manager

Who We Are

BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world’s best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible-and unlocking your potential to advance the world. BST is the operational heart of our business and is invaluable to our success. Roles such as finance, human resources, risk, and IT, help propel BCG forward. BST employees support the core of the organization and provide outstanding value to the business. As a BST member, you will work with inspiring, talented, dedicated, and curious colleagues in an energizing, fast-paced environment in which people are treated with respect and help one another to succeed. Working at BCG provides you with the opportunity to grow through interesting and challenging work and to have an active voice in your personal career development.

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

• 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 keen understanding of consultant experience including the type of case work and toolkit needed for success, in order to provide sound advice and judgement for case opportunities
• 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
• Bachelors degree required; Advanced Degree (Master’s, etc.) preferred but not required

Key Competencies:

• 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 Talent Senior Managers and the local office Business Management Senior Director to support the consulting cohorts, focusing on the needs of the firm, cohort and individuals. 

Additional info

Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, contributions to BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF), and a market leading benefits package described below. 

We expect total annualized compensation for New York City-based employees to be approximately the following: 

• Base salary between $120,000- $145,000 (USD); placement within this range will vary based on experience and skill level
• Annual discretionary performance bonus between 0-16%
• 5% Profit Sharing Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution, increasing to 10% after two years of service. Contributions are vested immediately and there is no waiting period
• First year annualized target total compensation: $136,080 – $164,430 (USD)

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.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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