- Where
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Level
- Mid
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 seeking a strong candidate with experience and passion to join BCG X as Staffing Specialist – X Delivery located in India.
As Staffing Specialist, you will apply deep knowledge of talent profiles and client business needs to make key staffing decisions across multiple disciplines. This role will have a focus on BCG X and X Delivery topics. In this role, you will collaborate with chapter leads and leads of BCG X, 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
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
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
Provide inputs into Career Development Committee (CDC) meetings and reinforce CD messages through staffing and development discussions to support individual development as required
Provide input to BCG local HR and relevant stakeholders on employee matters when required
Work with Regional 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.
Collaborate with Finance and ensure that financial approvals are considered and cooperate with finance in ensuring correct financial allocation of assigned resources
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
What You'll Bring
Indicatively 2-4+ years’ experience in professional services and / or technology services…