Consulting Team Talent Manager
Chicago, IL 
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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 business needs of BCG and the professional development of our consulting staff.
Talent Managers drive overall objectives of the business (e.g. team balance and staff
utilization), identify patterns across their roster to drive strategies and support individuals in their staffing, development, and career navigation. In addition, this role is a member of the larger consulting talent team 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 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

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)
  • Advanced Degree (Masters, MBA, JD, PhD, etc.) preferred
  • Prior experience at a consulting firm, in HR, Consulting, Talent, or Finance role is preferred
  • 5+ years' total work experience
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 with all organizational levels inside and outside BCG through establishing positive, unbiased and productive working relationships. influencing others while simultaneously maintain own flexibility
  • Maturity that engenders respect and trust from others; good judgement, professionalism, integrity, and the ability to maintain absolute confidentiality
  • Comfortable in resolving conflict, delivering difficult messages with empathy 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 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; receptive to feedback & quick to action it; can-do attitude and creative solution seeker

YOU'LL WORK WITH

In this role, you will partner with other 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 INFORMATION
Compensation Information:

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.

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 (USD) in orthodontia benefits
  • Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
  • Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
  • Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not
  • Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years
  • Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement

*Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
  • This role currently requires 3 days a week in office presence. This provides flexibility the remaining 40% of the work week. This hybrid work plan allows for critically important learning, collaboration and networking with our colleagues. Specific days in the office are agreed upon by the team.


The 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, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

 

Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Experience
5+ years
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