Consulting Team Talent Senior Specialist

Consulting Team Talent Senior Specialist

Locations
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Denver | San Francisco | Los Angeles | Seattle

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.

The Staffing function is the holistic owner of key components of the BCG consulting team employee experience. The Consulting Team Talent Senior Specialist will play a key role in driving strategic and operational support for the Staffing function on the West Talent Management team within BCG’s West Coast system, while also serving as a team member of the larger consulting talent community in North America.

You will partner with and coach individuals on their staffing, development, and career navigation with support from senior Talent Management staff. A large portion of your time will be spent driving end‑to‑end operations for the dynamic allocation and prioritization of business development resources and managing other system priorities such as summer intern staffing.

• Build a keen understanding of consultant experience, including the type of case work and toolkit needed for success; leverage this understanding to provide sound advice and judgement for case opportunities.
• Deploy a specific roster of consulting resources, ensuring each receives the right set of projects to support their development and professional goals; communicate opportunities to roster and communicate roster’s skills and experience for projects looking for staff.
• Support CDC (Career Development Committee) by speaking to individual staff’s deployment, performance, and trajectory; surfacing themes and calibrating outcomes across the cohort; implementing consistent policies and procedures in line with regional and global guidelines on promotion timing, criteria, and termination.
• Build a strong relationship with roster to understand their needs, preferences, and constraints; sign off on staffing decisions, communicate decisions and rationale; strategically advise roster on staffing and mobility choices; help them navigate learning and development, connecting them to beneficial programs and services.
• Monitor 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.
• Develop fluency with finance and business mechanics to understand the impact each staffing decision has on cohort, roster, office, and ultimately system success.
• Collaborate with other functions at relevant points of intersection (Career Development, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Teaming@BCG, Career Services, Finance, etc.).
• Ensure 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.
• Coordinate 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.
• Leverage digital tools and People and Finance reports to ensure data‑driven decision making.

• Prior experience at a consulting firm and/or in an HR, Consulting, Talent or Finance role is preferred.
• 4+ years of total work experience.
• Undergraduate degree required.
• Thri…