Senior Staffing Specialist

Who We Are

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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

We are seeking a strong candidate with experience and passion to join BCG X as EMESA Senior Staffing Specialist located in London.

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 system leaders across LAB, 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

• · 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
• · 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. Including reviewing timesheet submissions, reviewing case extensions and keeping a pulse on new wins
• · 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.
• · Work closely with the People & Development team so support their input into Career Development Committee (CDC) meetings and reinforce CD messages through staffing and development discussions to support individual development

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
• · Strong administrative and organisational skills, with meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining accuracy across complex staffing processes.
• · Being an active team player, autonomous, able to manage ambiguity and self-motivated

What You'll Bring

• · Indicatively 4-6 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 the EMESA 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 EMESA leadership team.

Additional info

BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG. Turbocharging BCG's 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 world's 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 we're creating the bold and disruptive products, services, and businesses of tomorrow.

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