Platinion Consulting Team Talent Senior Manager – Temporary

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. BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group’s existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We support our clients’ total digital transformation through digital and technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities. And together with BCG, BCG Platinion’s interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system.

What You’ll Do

This is a temporary 6-month position.

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

Talent Senior Managers drive overall objectives of the Platinion business (e.g. team balance and staff utilization), identify patterns across the cohort and use that knowledge to drive strategies and support individuals in their staffing and developmental needs. In addition, this role is a member of the larger consulting talent team community in North America.

You’re good at

In the Talent Senior Manager role, you would be good at and focus your time and talents on the following.

Staffing:

• Optimize the deployment of a specific cohort(s) of consulting resources to meet our business needs while ensuring that each consulting staff member in the cohort(s) receives the right set of opportunities to support their immediate BCG Platinion Career Development objectives and their overall long-term professional goals
• Optimize team design, billability and achievement of business priorities through a deep awareness of current available skills, cases, leads/proposals, and office/firm goals; maintain a view of staffing pipeline at a macro and micro level (overall business outlook as well as specific staffing needs)
• Build strong relationships with Consulting Team staff to understand development needs, preferences and constraints for staffing; discuss upcoming projects; advise on staffing choices to achieve balance between BCG Platinion’s business needs and personal preferences if possible; communicate staffing decisions and related rationale; set and enforce staffing policies and expectations
• Maintain an acute awareness of business environment; openly communicate information relative to case opportunities with individuals and with Directors and Managing Directors and teams looking to confirm staff to projects

Business Partner:

• Weigh staffing decisions with financial implications on local and regional revenue (e.g., investment decisions, LI/Tier-1)
• Partner closely with the Finance team to uphold fair and consistent application of case management and finance principles in staffing decisions
• Act as a business partner to case team leadership, helping them understand how staffing moves impact case team economics
• Manage office and individual billability via effective oversight of revenue recognition for entire roster of consultants

Career Development:

• Actively engage in all CDC (Career Development Committee) meetings for relevant cohort(s) of individuals; review meeting inputs and outputs; provide committee with market view of performance, and calibrate Advisors during meeting, ensuring best practices and consistent CDC decisions for relevant cohort(s)
• Act as strategic thought partner with CD Head(s) (e.g., Chapter sponsors) and CD Ops team to drive functional agenda; provide leadership for committee(s) in partnership with CD Ops team on matters such as committee composition, training, and quality
• Partner with Advisors to communicate CDC outcomes with individuals; reinforce and interpret meeting outcomes, provide ongoing advice, and help guide counsel out discussions; understand and appreciate the values of BCG and work to preserve these values in interpreting and resolving career development issues
• Reinforce CD messages through staffing and development discussions to aid individual and cohort development
• Implement consistent policies and procedures in line with regional and global guidelines on promotion timing, promotion criteria and termination

Career Experience & Navigation:

• Motivate, help to develop, and provide coaching and advice to all members of the team
• Coach and guide consulting staff throughout their employment lifecycle on career options and opportunities; act as a trusted advisor to guide individuals into mutually beneficial outcomes
• Understand and communicate key programs including career services and flexibility; coordinate use of programs to balance employee needs and business priorities
• Partners with local leadership and HR to set and execute mobility strategy for office CT staff annually, considering business needs and capacity constraints

Lisaon across People Function:

• Actively engage with candidates and hires early in their BCG experience; participate in the conversion process; adapt early experiences to meet likely development needs in first cases
• Work with HR team to resolve issues faced by individuals; contribute thought leadership on initiatives crucial to addressing people issues
• Drive optimal case team experience via partnership with BCG’s Teaming@BCG team
• Actively engage in summer intern program by pairing interns with the right case teams to provide a positive and developmental summer experience
• Work closely with office people team to ensure information sharing, best practice codification, and efficient operations
• Act as a thought partner for the Business Management Director, CEO and MD team
• Actively participate in the broader NAMR Consulting People Team community including sharing best practices and participating in regional initiatives and projects as needed
• Perform other duties and work on other special projects or initiatives as necessary

Cohort Strategy & Engagement:

• Manages affiliation / integration programs in partnership with Platinion HR & L&D teams; encourage participation and integration in local office programs (e.g., cohort based sessions etc.)
• Identifies and raises issues across cohort, ensuring they are being address
• Monitor staff activity and participation in key aspects of morale, retention and affiliation (e.g., integration and affiliation programs, red zone reports, PTO/Teaming@BCG support, etc.)
• Provide analytic support and ownership over projects related to office People Team, including but not limited to annual PEOPLE Survey and pyramid planning
• Work closely with Platinion people team to ensure information sharing, best practice codification, and efficient operations
• Act as a thought partner for the Platinion People Director and MD team
• Actively participate in the broader NAMR Consulting People Team community including sharing best practices and participating in regional initiatives and projects as needed
• Perform other duties and work on other special projects or initiatives as necessary

Unlocking Potential:

• Ensures all have fair access to all staffing opportunities; play an active role in helping create and influence diversity on case teams
• Partner closely with diversity network owners and mentors to drive and support inclusion efforts for individuals and across networks

What You’ll Bring

• Advanced Degree (Masters, MBA, JD, PhD, etc.) preferred
• Prior consulting experience is highly preferred in order to ensure a deep understanding of our target audience’s needs and skills in their roles
• Working knowledge of technology / IT design roles preferred (e.g., IT architecture, Cybersecurity, ERP implementation)
• 10+ years’ total work experience
• Candidates must be able to perform successfully in a fast-paced, global, intellectually intense, service oriented environment, keeping with BCG’s values and culture
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate with all organizational levels inside and outside BCG through establishing positive and productive working relationships
• Able to engender trust from senior local and regional leadership as well as more junior resources, and serve as a broker or liaison between the two groups
• Strong communication skills; able to communicate confidently, articulately; able to influence multiple stakeholders to adopt a new point of view and be simultaneously flexible with adjusting own perspective in light of new information or constraints
• Maturity and seasoning that engenders respect and trust from others; good judgment, professionalism, strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative style
• High integrity, tact, a positive attitude, and an ability to maintain absolute confidentiality
• Comfortable in resolving conflict, delivering difficult messages and addressing all people related issues
• A quick study; a can-do attitude; a creative solution seeker with a readiness to try new approaches; decisive, pragmatic, and reason-minded
• Quick to learn BCG policies, practices, structure, and how decisions are made
• An active team player with strong organizational, analytical, and project management skills
• Comfortable in 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

Who You’ll Work With

In this role, you will partner with other Talent Senior Managers, the Platinion People Team Senior Manager and Platinion BST leadership to support the consulting cohorts, focusing on the needs of the firm, cohort and individuals.

Additional info

This is a temporary 6-month position.

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.

The compensation rate for this role is $70-73 per hour.

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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