Talent Senior Specialist - Pipeline

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group seeks a Talent Senior Specialist – Pipeline in Los Angeles and Seattle to lead staffing for project teams, balance workload, and align resources with client needs. You will partner with leadership, Finance, and HR to optimize team designs and drive staffing decisions across the West system.

The role emphasizes collaboration, data-driven decision making, and development support for consultants, with a hybrid office model and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of total work experience.
• Undergraduate degree required.
• Prior consulting or HR/talent/finance experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead staffing for long and short-term projects, partnering with leadership on case context and needs.
• Optimize team designs across projects in line with the project pipeline.
• Advise project leadership on staffing options, balancing team and client economics.
• Support case intake, triaging, and load-balancing for Talent Management team.
• Drive summer staffing processes with stakeholders (interns, staff, case team leaders, NAMR Talent Managers).
• Coordinate with Career Development, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources and other functions to align staffing decisions.

Skills

Staffing process

Team design

Stakeholder mgmt

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collab

Education

Undergraduate degree

Job description

Locations: Los Angeles | Seattle

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

The Staffing function is the holistic owner of key components of the BCG consulting team employee experience. Most notably, the function drives the development and deployment of BCG’s most important asset – its people – while supporting overall business objectives (e.g. staff utilization, project team balance). The Talent Senior Specialist - Pipeline will play a key role in driving strategic and operational support for the Staffing function in the Talent Management team within BCG’s West system, while also serving as a team member of the larger consulting talent community in North America.

The Talent Senior Specialist – Pipeline owns the process of landing an appropriate team of consultants to execute individual projects, while driving the overall objectives of the business (e.g., team balance and staff utilization). Additionally, a portion of this person’s time may be spent driving the dynamic allocation and prioritization of business development resources and managing other system priorities (e.g., summer intern staffing). Over time, this individual may also own a small roster of Associates or Consultants and will support their development, career navigation, and staffing.

The role is ideal for someone passionate about a career in the HR/People space, and who thrives in fast-paced environments while maintaining a keen attention to detail. A qualified candidate is a strategic thinker who can effectively prioritize competing tasks and collaborate with, influence and manage stakeholders (including all levels of Consulting staff + Business Services Team members across key functions like Finance/HR) to meet the needs of individual consultants, the firm, and our clients.

You're good at

• Leading the staffing process for individual long & short term projects, from partnering with leadership on case context and needs to identifying, connecting, and confirming the right consulting resources for each individual opportunity
• Optimizing team designs across projects as needed, in line with view of overall project pipeline, balancing business priorities with specific staff needs
• Serving as a thought partner to project team leadership in evaluating options during the staffing process, understanding the impact on team/client economics and balance, and thoughtfully adhering to regional policies and guidelines
• Supporting case intake, triaging, and load-balancing for TM team in collaboration with team leadership
• Driving the summer staffing process for the office, including coordination with stakeholders (summer interns, consulting staff, case team leaders, NAMR Talent Managers, etc.)
• May support end-to-end process of short-term staffing in the time between formal assignments for consultants, communicating and coordinating with consulting staff and Talent Managers – prioritizing demands in real time as needed
• May deploy a small roster of consulting resources, ensuring each resource receives the right set of projects to support their development & professional goals; supporting CDC (Career Development Committee) by speaking to individual staff’s deployment, performance, and trajectory
• Develop fluency with finance and business mechanics to understand the impact each individual staffing decision has on cohort, roster, office, and ultimately system success
• Collaborating with other functions at relevant points of intersection (Career Development, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Teaming@BCG, Career Services, Finance, etc.)
• Coordinating inputs and outputs with a diverse group of stakeholders at various levels of seniority; work as a team contributor within local, system, regional, and global staffing structures to ensure day-to-day outcomes are in line with policies
• Leveraging digital tools and access to People and Finance reports to ensure data-driven decision making

What You'll Bring

• Prior experience at a consulting firm and/or in an HR, Consulting, Talent or Finance role is preferred
• 4+ years’ total work experience
• Undergraduate degree required

Key Competencies

• Thrives in a fast-paced, global, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment, keeping with BCG's values and culture
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate confidently and articulately with all organizational levels inside and outside BCG via positive and productive working relationships, influencing others while simultaneously maintaining own flexibility
• Maturity that engenders respect and trust from others; good judgment, professionalism, integrity, and the ability to maintain absolute confidentiality
• Comfortable in resolving conflict, delivering difficult messages and addressing all people related issues
• An actively collaborative team player who leverages slide writing, organizational, analytical, and project management skills to seek innovative and creative solutions and incremental improvements
• Comfortable both working in detail and understanding the big picture; able to consider the ramifications of decisions on various constituencies
• Autonomous, able to tolerate ambiguity, self-motivated; receptive to feedback & quick to action it; can-do attitude and a creative solution seeker

Who You'll Work With

In this role, you will report to the Seattle Talent Manager and partner with the West Talent Managers and Talent Director to support the consulting cohorts, focusing on the needs of the firm, cohort and individuals.

Additional info

Format Information

At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person work is essential to our culture, mentorship, and professional development. That's why we operate on a hybrid model, with the expectation that team members will be in the office 3 to 5 days per week. This role is designed for those who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment and is not intended for remote or virtual work.

Compensation Information

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 is $103,000 - $127,000 (USD).

This is an estimated range and specific base salaries within the range depend on factors such as office location, 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 discretionary bonus of up to 12% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.

At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees – and their eligible family members.* That’s zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks.

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
• Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.

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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