Global Recruiting Senior Director - BCG X

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Greater London is seeking a Senior Director of Talent Acquisition to lead recruitment and manage a global team. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving talent acquisition strategies and aligning them with business needs. With over 15 years of experience in the field, the role requires strong leadership skills and a deep understanding of technology profiles. This full-time position offers a dynamic environment at the forefront of business transformation.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition or 10+ years in consulting or HR experience in Tech.
• Deep understanding of Data Scientist, Product, Design, and Engineering profiles.
• Demonstrated ability to manage resources in a complex environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive recruitment for Data Scientists, Software/Data Engineers, and Analysts.
• Align hiring plans with business needs in BCG X.
• Manage a team of 50-60 recruiting professionals globally.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Strategic Talent Acquisition

Recruitment Analytics

Job description

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 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 looking for an innovative and collaborative leader to drive recruitment for our Data Scientists, Software/Data Engineers, Product experts, Growth Architects, Experience Designers, Analysts, and Solution Delivery experts. BCG X across its different entities has currently over 3.000 employees incl. Operations with a strong aspiration to continue its outstanding growth journey from past years (10-20% YoY growth) and a recruiting target of 600 FTE in 2025.

Global Recruiting Senior Director – BCG X YOU’LL BE BASED IN CITY: Boston, New York, Paris, London (preferred), Munich COUNTRY: Germany, France, UK, USA YOU’LL BE TRAVELLING 10% YOUR EMPLOYEE TYPE IS Regular YOUR JOB TYPE IS Full Time

As the Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, you will be essential in designing the Talent Acquisition organization for BCG X as well as managing a large and global team focusing on full life cycle recruitment. You will also work closely with our regional leadership team and the global chapter leadership to ensure Talent Acquisition is aligned with the business needs in BCG X. You will manage a team of 50-60 recruiting professionals globally. Within the broader BCG Talent Acquisition community, you will represent the ‘voice’ of BCG X.

You will have a critical role to align our hiring plans, programs, and strategies to drive recruiting excellence across regions and across our different chapters, as well as to build robust talent pipelines as we expand and grow globally. You will elevate our recruiting and sourcing initiatives by leveraging data and ensuring operational excellence to reach our hiring goals to attract and hire the best talent for BCG X.

Job Responsibilities

Own strategic talent sourcing and attraction

• Support evolution of the specific employee value proposition (EVP) and messaging for key talent segments, aligned to overall BCG EVP as employer of choice in close collaboration with the BCG X Leadership team and People Team
• Develop sourcing strategies for key talent pools, strategic roles and specific scarce skill areas identified by the business
• Include diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda as a core element of the sourcing strategy

Lead talent planning, pipelining and global delivery

• Work closely with regional leadership, global chapter leaders, X Delivery leadership team, and product teams to develop a deep understanding of the business, understand the strategic priorities and the current and future talent required
• Provide crucial talent market intelligence information to key stakeholders, e.g. compensation benchmarks, relevant talent pools, insights on competitors
• Develop talent plan jointly with business and people team
• Translate business needs into target profiles based on required technical skills as well as ability to perform in the specific businesses and roles
• Manage, develop, and lead high performing team to deliver key hiring objectives and metrics of time to fill, source mix, conversion ratio, diversity pipeline and quality of hire

Drive excellence across BCG X Talent Acquisition

• Drive the expansion and acceleration of our near-shore and off-shore engineering teams to support the overall business strategy of BCG X
• Establish coordination of recruiting efforts and channels across cohorts, keeping a de-averaged view on required profiles for the different chapters and businesses
• Digitally enable Talent Acquisition function in BCG X e.g., fully embracing Recruiting Analytics and cutting-edge Sourcing tools

Integrate with BCG Talent Acquisition and support continuous improvement and change model

• Partner and work with our Global Recruiting Teams in BCG to build a cohesive operating model and synergies that support Talent Acquisition for BCG X while partnering and sharing best practices regionally and globally e.g., Branding, Marketing, Recruiting Analytics
• Establish and strengthen networks with regional and local recruiting communities in BCG in order to ensure a common go-to-market and to leverage the full scale of BCG’s Talent Acquisition function
• Participate in key leadership forums in BCG Recruiting, such as the Recruiting Strategic Leadership Team and the Recruiting Functional Council
• Lead the innovation and transformation agenda for Talent Acquisition for BCG X
• Build out Recruiting Marketing & Branding agenda for BCG X globally

You’re good at

• Strong leadership and influencing skills, including exceptional oral and written communication
• Advising business on strategic talent acquisition, translating this into concrete actions for success
• Managing strategic and operational topics in the People agenda
• Leading matrixed, cross-functional work teams including across geographies and cultures
• Partnering with Business leaders to developing a talent acquisition strategy and plan

What You’ll Bring

• 15+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition or alternatively 10+ years of consulting or HR experience in the Tech and Analytics/AI space
• Preferred candidate will have deep understanding of Data Scientist, Product, Design, and/or Engineering profiles as well as the competitive market landscape
• Understanding and experience with sourcing, talent processes, talent assessment, and metrics
• Demonstrated ability to manage resources and workload in a complex and fast-paced environment

Who You'll Work With

You will report to Stacey Beard, BCG X Global People Functions Senior Director. You will work with our BCG X Leadership Team, the functional leadership in BCG X (People, Marketing, Talent Management) as well as the global Recruiting Leadership in BCG. You will have key working relationships with senior business leaders (Managing Director & Partner, Executive Director and Senior Director level) and product owners as well as building a strong network across BCG’s global recruiting community.

Additional info

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. The BCG GAMMA team creates competitive advantages for organizations by unleashing the power of signals hidden deep within large and complex data sets. We conceptualize, build, and deploy AI solutions that transform the trajectories of organizations in areas ranging from marketing, risk assessment, and customer service to manufacturing, supply chain management, scenario simulation, and competitive intelligence.

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