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What You'll Do
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 manager and member of the LAB Staffing team and you will work closely with the LAB pipeline team, PA nodes and fellow People Team colleagues.
This role may also be responsible for the day to day staffing operations of some of London A/C staffing team. You will help take responsibility as an escalation point in some A/C staffing team issues working along with the pipeline team and senior supply managers, where a decision requires trade-offs between our senior stakeholders or individual considerations.
- Work with the pipeline team, senior supply managers, PA Nodes, to achieve optimum deployment of PPPLs across the LAB system:
- Communicate daily with the relevant PA Nodes, senior supply managers and the Pipeline team to understand the pyramid situation and needs of the business
- Being a sparring partner to the PA Nodes and challenging staffing decision when needed
- Manage “freecap” for PPPLs in your assigned PAs and assign them to proposals or other non billable work, in line with agreed business priorities
- Manage PA staffing capacity, validate holidays and flex-time requests, support and promote cross office staffing when relevant
- Monitor and manage billabilty in assigned PAs
- Understand PPPL needs to assign them to projects overseing the best match with their preferences and career ambitions.
- Attend career development committee meetings for relevant PAs
- Work closely with PA Nodes and CDC to understand the development needs of the PPPLs in PAs, provide input to CDC meetings and help action development needs of the PPPLs
- Meet regulary with the PPPLs in assigned PAs to understand their staffing and development needs. Advise them of current cases, while also understanding their goals preferences and expertise
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date information in all people/staffing information systems
- Lead analysis and reporting of 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)
- Experiencee of working with a database (ideal but not essential).
You are good at
- Good understanding of the commercial 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 effectively drive change
- Clarity, tact and professionalism in communication, including presenting to and managing daily relationships with both senior stakeholders and peer teams across the BCG landscape
- Managing a set of stakeholders and collaborate with the pipeline team during staffing escalations, given differentiated priorities and the need to balance multiple business or individual trade-offs
- Readiness to work with teams across the different offices, with proven consensus building, leadership and change management skills
- Patience, integrity and sensitivity to listen to and deal with complex or confidential issues, while also independently taking an impartial stand where decisions require it
- Well organized, accurate and able to plan ahead and manage large number of initiatives in parallel
- Readiness to travel to system offices and other BCG offices when needed
- Proficiency in all standard software used at BCG (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, …)
Additional info
This is a one-year fixed-term role to cover maternity leave
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