Platinion Talent Senior Specialist - London

About BCG Platinion

BCG Platinion's presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenges. We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past. At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application and Risk functions. We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.

What You'll Do

As a member of the Talent team in Platinion L-A-B (London, Amsterdam, Brussels), you will primarily be responsible for the professional development of the London consulting staff. This role includes supporting individuals in their staffing and career developmental needs, managing both short-term and long-term priorities, adapting to shifting business needs, and identifying patterns across the cohort to help drive strategies. In addition, you will be a member of the larger consulting talent team community in EMESA.

• Staffing Management
  • Responsible for optimizing the deployment of consulting resources to meet our business needs while ensuring that each consulting staff member receives the right set of opportunities to support their immediate BCG Platinion Career Development objectives and their overall long-term professional goals.
  • Optimizes team design, billability, and achievement of business priorities through a deep awareness of business environment, current available skills, cases, leads/proposals, and office/firm goals; track billability and utilization, maintain a view of staffing and commercial pipeline at a macro and micro level.
  • Build strong relationships with client-facing staff to understand development needs, preferences and constraints for staffing; set and enforce staffing policies and expectations.
  • Coordinate with local, system, regional, and global staffing teams and represent the L-A-B staffing situation in COS calls.
  • Work closely with the Immigration & Mobility teams to ensure compliance in work permits & Visas.
  • Follow up with the team to understand case team dynamics and identify which team/individual could benefit from extra support.
  • Collaborate with the L&D team to anticipate the training schedule and availability of staff.
• Career Development
  • Actively attend and engage in all CDC meetings for relevant cohort(s) of individuals; review meeting inputs and outputs; provide committee with market view of performance, pressure test and calibrate Career Advisors during meetings.
  • Partner with our Platinion CD POC and Career Advisors to communicate CDC outcomes with individuals; support with feedback calibration, reinforce and interpret meeting outcomes, provide ongoing advice, understand, and appreciate the values of BCG Platinion and work to preserve these values in interpreting and resolving career development issues.
  • Reinforce CD messages through Staffing and development discussions to support individual development.
• (Pre) Onboarding
  • Actively engage with candidates and hires early in their BCG Platinion experience; participate in the conversion process; adapt early experiences to meet likely development needs in first cases.
  • Host onboarding sessions for all new joiners, ensuring a smooth transition into the PA/business and case work.
  • Ensure new hire is set up for success by sharing relevant documentation, providing first staffing experience, helping create 1st level network, allocating buddy and CDA, and frequent check-ins in first month.
  • Provide Recruiting and local leadership with a view on demanded profiles and cohort needs.
• Other HR & Analytics
  • With the support of the Platinion CT Senior Manager and local HR teams, act as a thought partner to the local leadership by addressing and resolving issues faced by individuals.
  • Track employee movements in our HR tools with the support of the Talent/CD Specialist and local HR department.
  • Monitor staff activity and participation in key aspects of morale, retention and affiliation.
  • Contribute to People projects and initiatives, including but not limited to the Annual People Team Survey, ensuring alignment with the broader L-A-B People agenda.
  • Work closely with Office People Teams to ensure information sharing, best practice codification, and efficient operations.
  • Actively participate in the broader EMESA Consulting People Team community including sharing best practices and participating in regional initiatives and projects.

What You'll Bring

• University degree or equivalent preferred.
• 4-5 years of experience in HR management, Talent management, Recruitment or L&D.
• Interest and basic knowledge of concepts such as GenAI, IT architecture and Digital solutions (ERP, Data platforms, Cloud).
• Fluency in English.

Who You'll Work With

You will collaborate closely with the Platinion leadership team of L-A-B and interact with different departments of the firm (Finance, HR, Mobility, L&D, Recruiting, Teaming). You will report to the Platinion LAB CT People Senior Manager.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Candidates must be able to perform successfully in a fast-paced, global, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment, keeping with BCG Platinion's values and culture.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate with all organizational levels inside and outside BCG Platinion through establishing positive and productive working relationships.
• Able to engender trust from senior local and regional leadership as well as more junior resources and serve as a broker or liaison between the two groups.
• Strong communication skills; able to communicate confidently, articulately; able to influence multiple stakeholders to adopt a new point of view and be simultaneously flexible with adjusting own perspective in light of new information or constraints.
• Maturity and seasoning that engenders respect and trust from others; good judgment, professionalism, strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative style.
• High integrity, tact, a positive attitude, and an ability to maintain absolute confidentiality.
• Comfortable in resolving conflict, delivering difficult messages and addressing all people related issues.
• Autonomous, able to tolerate ambiguity, self-motivated.
• A quick study; a can-do attitude, a creative solution seeker and a readiness to try new approaches; decisive, pragmatic, and reason-minded.
• Quick understanding of BCG policies, practices, structure, and how decisions are made.
• An active team player with strong organizational, analytical, and project management skills.
• Comfortable in both working in detail and understanding the big picture. Able to consider the ramifications of decisions on various constituencies.