Practice Area Senior Manager - People and Organization (Temporary)

Locations: Atlanta Canary Wharf Houston

Who We Are

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What You'll Do

As a Practice Area Manager within BCG's People and Organization Practice Area (PA), you will lead strategical and operational priorities to deliver the POP agenda. Your particular areas of focus will include defining and delivering our people and engagement strategy, driving our global commercial insights, driving the overall POP PA M&O agenda, and taking on other high-priority strategic and operational priorities. On the People and Engagement side, you will be responsible for working with the POP Global People Lead and the GPMD to craft and execute people-related initiatives based on a data-driven understanding of people opportunities. Sample areas of focus will include working with regional and offer managers to drive POP's affiliation and engagement activities, learning and development for our POP cadre, POP's MDP coaching program, setting the agenda for and executing POP-wide global meetings (Town Halls, WWOM, POP global meeting, etc.), and strategic communications to POP affiliates, and executing key global people processes. On the business insights front, you will ensure that key POP leaders (sector, topic, regional) have a strong understanding of business and competitive insights. On the overall PA M&O agenda, you will ensure that we are effectively framing priorities and driving them to realize the value of key changes. Finally, as new strategic and operational priorities emerge, you will lead these initiatives for the practice. This includes not just taking on these priorities but identifying areas where the practice can improve and the steps needed to drive them.

The POP Practice Area is one of BCG's functional practices. We develop and provide expertise on People and Organization matters and together with the industry PAs of BCG, support client to design, equip and sustain a high performing organization with capable, engaged and adaptive people.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Managing ambiguity with a high level of comfort - including identifying where to focus next and highest priorities
• Strong executive writing skills
• Creativity and excitement around how to engage the POP team and bring interest to the POP practice
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic, entrepreneurial drive to work autonomously and in a multinational team
• Earning the respect of a senior cohort, including Managing Directors, who are remotely located, and juggling the various priorities and viewpoints of the Leadership Team members
• Showing influence to compile inputs and opinions from the Leadership Team members, while still meeting demanding deadlines
• Change management and stakeholder engagement
• Operating effectively in a matrix organization with the ability to prioritize and make decisions
• Complex project management with the ability to multi-task and drive advanced strategic analysis (beyond data) and leverage results for impact
• Working closely to develop and enhance people initiatives - developing a plan to manage the people networks and support the success of consultants with the practice involvement
• Affiliation, communication and training - organizing internal/ external events and calls, develop agendas for meetings and preparing communication, coordinate calls, Virtual Trainings, LAB activities, own sector platforms, and develop all sector internal communications / newsletters on regular basis.
• Working independently to identify need for, scope, gain endorsement and drive implementation of commercially impactful initiatives
• Leading others including senior business leaders in clarifying problems and developing solutions by building cross-PA partnerships - building consensus, persuading and influencing
• Motivating others to deliver highest standards, providing direction, mentoring and coaching
• Power Point slidewriting & Excel skills

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of consulting experience or 8-10+ years of relevant industry experience
• University Advanced degree and demonstrated high academic achievement, strong preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage and drive area of accountabilities, contributing to higher level agenda setting
• Ability to lead more complex, broader sub functional teams or projects fully independently and provide direction to others
• Ability to resolve complex issues and non-defined problems autonomously, with full business acumen
• Strong interpersonal skills, credibility
• Ability to influence senior members of the PA and beyond
• Ability to respect sensitive client, BCG, and people related information as personal and confidential
• Advanced knowledge in Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Strong English skills (written and spoken)
• Ideally, experience within BCG

Who You'll Work With

You will work closely with the Global and Regional People and Organization Practice leadership and their leadership teams, as well as the Global Topic Leaders and their product managers, when setting the strategic agenda and driving implementation, and the Global People Lead. You will collaborate with the Practice Area Coordinators, Sector / Topic Managers, HR and Marketing within the PA. Further interfaces exist with other Regional Managers as well as global and BCG functions and teams as needed.

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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