Area Practice Manager

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. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. 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.), On the business insights front, you will ensure that key POP leaders (sector, topic, regional) have a strong understanding of business and competitive insights. Strong executive writing skills 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 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 University Advanced degree and demonstrated high academic achievement, strong preferred ~ 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 ~ Advanced knowledge in Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel ~ Strong English skills (written and spoken) ~ 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. 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. BCG is an E – Verify Employer.