BCG X Global TA Strategy and Analytics Manager

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group in London seeks a Global TA Strategy and Analytics Manager to shape recruitment analytics and insights. You will own reporting, influence hiring strategy, and partner with technology teams to elevate processes, data governance, and candidate experiences across BCG X.

You will translate analytics into actionable decisions, build dashboards, and drive strategic programmes that strengthen recruitment globally.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in global recruitment analytics or talent intelligence, with metrics and processes knowledge.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining dashboards to drive insights.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders with data-driven storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead recruitment analytics strategy and develop global reporting and insights.
• Translate data into strategic recommendations to improve hiring performance and pipeline health.
• Collaborate with technology teams to improve recruitment platforms and user experience.
• Pilot AI-enabled approaches to enhance analytics, reporting, and recruiter productivity.
• Create executive-level presentations and business cases with data-driven narratives.

Skills

Recruitment analytics

Data storytelling

Stakeholder management

Tableau dashboards

Tools

Tableau

iCIMS

Job description

Locations: London | Lisbon

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.

What You'll Do

We are seeking a strong candidate with experience and passion to join BCG X as Global TA Strategy and Analytics Manager located in London.

As the BCG X Global TA Strategy and Analytics Manager, you will help inform / support strategic decision-making on how BCG X attracts and hires exceptional talent. Combining deep recruitment analytics expertise with strategic programme delivery, you will transform data into insight, influence senior leaders, and drive initiatives that strengthen recruitment strategy, enhance BCG X's talent intelligence capabilities, improve operational excellence, and enable sustainable growth across the function.

Working closely with the Global Recruitment Innovation Director and the Global Recruiting Senior Director, you will own BCG X's recruitment reporting and insights capability while driving strategic programmes that enhance recruiter experience, hiring quality, and operational excellence. You'll use analytics to identify opportunities, influence decision-making, and deliver meaningful improvements across recruitment processes, technology, and ways of working.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Working alongside our Recruitment Analytics Specialist, lead and develop / drive improvements BCG X's global recruitment reporting and insights strategy, designing and enhancing Tableau dashboards that provide clear, actionable insights for recruiting leadership.
• Translate recruitment data into strategic recommendations that improve hiring performance, pipeline health, and operational effectiveness.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities within recruitment data, using evidence to optimise recruitment processes and inform strategic decision-making.
• Partner with BCG's core Recruitment Technology team to represent the needs of BCG X, participating and supporting platform enhancements and helping shape technology solutions that strengthen recruitment reporting, insights, and operational effectiveness.
• Evaluate and pilot AI-enabled approaches that enhance recruitment analytics, reporting and insights, recruiter productivity, and candidate experience, recommend and support adoption of solutions that deliver measurable value.
• Build compelling executive-level presentations and business cases, using tools such as Claude and ChatGPT to analyse large datasets, synthesise complex information, and develop clear, data-driven narratives that influence senior stakeholders.
• Ensure the integrity, consistency, and quality of recruitment data across systems, enabling trusted reporting and insights that support informed decision-making.
• Lead selected global recruitment transformation initiatives, using insights to harmonise processes, improve recruiter effectiveness, and enhance the end-to-end hiring experience.
• Develop and deliver initiatives that strengthen recruiter enablement, interviewer onboarding and training, capability development, and adoption of global best practices.
• Support strategic sourcing initiatives, employer branding campaigns, recruitment marketing activities, hiring events, and other programmes that strengthen BCG X's ability to attract exceptional talent.
• Partner alongside global Recruitment leaders, People function leadership, and technology partners across BCG's core business to deliver strategic initiatives that strengthen recruitment capabilities and improve the hiring experience.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement by identifying emerging opportunities and leading strategic projects that strengthen BCG X's global recruitment capability.

You're Good At

• Combining strong recruitment analytics expertise with a passion for solving complex business challenges
• Being equally comfortable building trusted reporting and insights, leading strategic initiatives, and influencing senior stakeholders through compelling, data-driven storytelling.
• Excellent stakeholder management and consulting skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, build alignment, and drive change without formal authority.
• Solving ambiguous business problems using data, curiosity, and critical thinking.
• Taking ownership and thriving in a fast-paced, evolving environment where priorities can shift quickly.
• Communicating complex ideas clearly and confidently, adapting messages for technical and non-technical audiences alike, locally and globally
• Building trusted relationships across functions and geographies
• Collaborating with colleagues to deliver meaningful change.
• Displaying a continuous improvement mindset and actively looking for opportunities to simplify processes, improve experiences, and increase business impact.

What You'll Bring

• Significant experience in global recruitment analytics or talent intelligence, with a strong understanding of recruitment metrics, processes, technologies, and how data and insights inform recruitment strategy and business decision-making.
• Advanced experience designing, building, and maintaining business-critical dashboards and visualisations using Tableau to deliver actionable reporting and insights.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to transform complex data into actionable insights, strategic recommendations, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT to analyse large datasets, synthesise complex information, develop executive-ready narratives, and create compelling PowerPoint presentations that support strategic decision-making.
• Experience partnering with recruitment technology teams and working with applicant tracking systems, such as iCIMS, to improve recruitment capabilities, processes, and user experience.
• Experience delivering recruitment strategy, transformation initiatives, or cross-functional programmes that deliver measurable business impact.
• Has experience working both globally and cross culturally to solve worldwide recruitment challenges

Who You'll Work With

You’ll be part of BCG X's Global Recruitment Innovation & Analytics team, helping shape how recruitment strategy, reporting, insights, and technology enable exceptional hiring outcomes across the business.

Working closely with the Global Recruitment Innovation Director and the Global Recruiting Senior Director, you'll contribute in supporting the strategic priorities and delivering initiatives that improve how BCG X attracts, assesses, and hires exceptional talent globally. You'll have the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders, bringing data, insights, and thoughtful recommendations to support business decisions and long-term recruitment strategy.

You'll partner closely with global Recruitment leaders, People function leadership, and BCG's core Recruitment Technology team to ensure BCG X's evolving needs are represented in global initiatives and technology roadmaps. You'll also collaborate across the wider Recruitment Innovation & Analytics team to develop scalable reporting and insights, share best practices, and continuously improve how recruitment operates around the world.

As a trusted partner, you'll bring together recruitment expertise, technology, and data-driven insights to deliver meaningful improvements that enhance recruiter effectiveness, strengthen candidate experiences, and support BCG X's continued growth.

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.

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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