Job Specifications
Locations: London | Amsterdam | Brussels
Who We Are
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures--and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
What You'll Do
Please note this is a 12 month maternity leave cover
Staffing is a business-critical function at BCG, managing the overall people deployment strategy and capacity management within the 3 LAB offices. You will be a member of the LAB Staffing team and you will work closely with the LAB Staffing Team, PA nodes in the ring-fence and fellow People Team colleagues.
This role is also responsible for staffing case requests, in the ring-fences and you will report into the LAB Staffing Director. You will have 1-2 direct reports at (senior) staffing specialist level. You will take responsibility as part of the escalation point for the areas you staff in ring-fence staffing team and escalating to the Staffing Director, when appropriate.
Working closely with the LAB Staffing Team, you will help ensure the LAB billability remains optimal in the ring-fences areas to staff advice on appropriate and strike the right balance between case requests and People development and preferences.
Work With Closely With The Nodes, The LAB Staffing Team And The LAB Staffing Director To Achieve Optimum Deployment Of PPPLs Across The LAB System
Communicate daily with the revevant PA Nodes and the LAB Staffing Director to understand the pyramid situation and needs of the ring-fences
Being a sparring partner to the Nodes and challenging staffing decision when needed
Manage "freecap" for PPPLs in the ring-fences and assign them to proposals or other non billable work, in line with agreed business priorities
Manage ring-fence staffing capacity, validate holidays and flex-time requests, supporte and promote cross office staffing when relevant
Monitor billabilty in the ring-fences you staff
Understand PPPL needs to assign them to projects overseing that best match with their preferences and career ambitions:
Attend career development committee meetings for the ring-fences
Work closely with ring-fence Nodes and CDC to understand the development needs of the PPPLs in the ring-fence, provide input to CDC meetings and help action development needs of the PPPLs
Meet regulary with the PPPLs in the ring-fences to understand their staffing and development needs. Advise them of current cases, while also understanding their goals preferences and expertise
Establish & maintain the relationship with senior stakeholders in the ring-fence:
Understand their commercial priorities and client-based specific needs
Manage the complex staffing escalations
Collect and share the weekly staffing needs across ring-fences you staff:
Provide guidance to the ring-fences on staffing, understanding their experience, aspirations, and circumstances, while always aiming at balancing between client, team and individual needs. Challenge the request, scope, team setup where needed.
Update and share the weekly pipeline with the ring-fence staffng team, identify priorities to help staffers make the right trade-offs
Confirm staffing decisions to ring-fences
Line Management Of Ring-fence Staffers
Manage day to day staffing operations and individual performance.
Provide coaching and mentoring to the staffing coordinators
Maintain accurate and up-to-date information in all people/staffing information systems
Analyise and report key staffing metrics for LAB, local or PA leadership.
Lead ad hoc projects as required
Work more closely with broader People teams to manage exceptional staffing where relevant
What You'll Bring
5+ years in staffing, in a professional services environment
Numerate
Confident in the use of Word and Excel
Knowledge of PowerPoint (ideal but not essential)
Experience working with a database (ideal but not essential).
You're Good At
Good understanding of the commercially context
Technical understanding of the consulting industry and business, managing people resources and the nature of work we do with clients
A 'can-do' attitude to problem-solving, with creative analytical skills and ability to drive decision-making
Future facing and entrepreneurial thinking with the interpersonal skills to effective
About the Company
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.
Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a rang...
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