BCG X NAMR Senior Staffing Specialist - New York

BCG X NAMR Senior Staffing Specialist - New York, United States of America

Locations : New York | Boston

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 venturesand 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

As Senior Staffing Specialist, you will apply deep knowledge of talent profiles and client business needs to make key staffing decisions across multiple disciplines. In this role, you will collaborate with chapter leads and leads of NAMR, general managers, and the wider staffing team assigning talent to sold work and new business efforts. You will provide strategic staffing recommendations based on understanding of talent skill sets, teaming insights, and commercial priorities.

You will have a pulse on how employees are deployed to projects and use that knowledge to optimize solving resource requests for forecasted projects.

Key responsibilities include:

• Responsible for optimizing deployment of BCG X resources to meet the needs of our business while ensuring each person receives opportunities supporting their Career Development objectives and long-term professional goals
• Maintain an acute awareness of the business environment and priorities; understand objectives of client/cases and openly communicate information relative to project opportunities with individuals while engaging with senior stakeholders and team leadership on staff portfolio
• Be the go-to person and build strong relationships with BCG X talent to understand developmental needs and preferences for staffing; discuss upcoming projects; advise on staffing choices to achieve balance between business needs and personal preferences when possible; communicate staffing decisions and related rationale; set and enforce staffing policies and expectations
• Handle staffing process end-to-end and collaborate with a team of other staffers discussing decisions and finding overarching the best solution
• Create visibility on current/planned resource allocation, considering diversity implications when staffing projects and teams holistically; ensuring fairness and equity with lens on people with different backgrounds and experiences
• Ensure relevant tools and trackers are maintained providing visibility of people commitments such project assignments, training and time off requests. Participate in the ongoing improvement of our staffing processes and systems

Collaboration with People & Development, Finance and BCG X HR Team

• When required participate and provide inputs into Career Development Committee (CDC) meetings and reinforce CD messages through staffing and development discussions to support individual and chapter development
• Provide input to BCG X HR and relevant stakeholders on employee matters when required
• Collaborate with Finance and ensure that financial approvals are considered and cooperate with finance in ensuring correct financial allocation of assigned resources
• Work with Global and Line of Business People & Development stakeholders to provide career support and guidance around mobility programs including alignment with key stakeholders prior to approving mobility or other employee programs.
• Provide input to rest of staffing and HR team to maintain up to date accurate information on staff including project assignments, training, recruiting and time off

You're good at:

• Performing successfully in a fast-paced, global, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment, keeping with BCG's values and culture
• Having excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate with all organizational levels inside and outside BCG through establishing positive and productive working relationships
• Having strong communication skills; able to communicate with confidence
• Being a proactive problem solver, ability to influence multiple stakeholders in a new point of view and be simultaneously flexible with adjusting own perspective considering new information or constraints
• Having high integrity, tact, a positive attitude, and an ability to maintain absolute confidentiality
• Being comfortable resolving conflict, delivering difficult messages and addressing all people related issues; excellent judgment and knows when to escalate
• Being an active team player, autonomous, able to manage ambiguity and self-motivated

What You'll Bring

• 3+ years experience in professional services and / or technology services environment, preferably in a staffing, workforce planning, people, or recruiting functions
• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred or equivalent years of relevant work experience
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills

Who You'll Work With

You will work in NAMR BCG X Staffing Team and will collaborate with local BCG staffing and finance team to monitor billability, timesheet accuracy and work closely with the HR and Recruiting teams on talent strategies. You will build relationships and work effectively with members of billable and BST talent, Global X staffers, CDC, and the X NAMR leadership team.

Additional info

BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG. Turbocharging BCGs deep industry and functional expertise, BCG X brings together advanced tech knowledge and ambitious entrepreneurship to help organizations enable innovation at scale. With nearly 3,000 technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers, and human-centered designers located across 80+ cities, BCG X builds and designs platforms and software to address the worlds most important challenges and opportunities. Teaming across our practices, and in close collaboration with our clients, our end-to-end global team unlocks new possibilities. Together were creating the bold and disruptive products, services, and businesses of tomorrow.

*** For US locations only ***

In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.

Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.

• The base salary range for this role begins at $101,000.00 in our lowest cost US region and goes up to $128,000.00 in our highest cost US region. Your recruiting contact can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.

In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 12% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.

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

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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