Expert Consultant - People Strategy

Location:

Melbourne, Sydney

Geography:

Asia Pacific

Capabilities:

People & organization

Industries:

Consumer products, Financial institutions, Insurance, Metals & mining, Public sector, Retail

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

Practice Area Profile

Through People & Organization, BCG works with our clients — senior business executives— who value BCG’s strategic, fact-based, and impact-oriented approach supported by senior teams, rich benchmarking databases and analytical capabilities. We provide expertise to our clients across all industries through our capabilities in areas like Organization Design; Change Management; Shared Services and Support Functions; Culture, Purpose and Engagement; Leadership & Talent; and Agile Ways of Working.

What You'll Do

As an Expert Consultant within BCG’s People & Organisation Practice (POP), you will provide expertise in People Strategy topics to BCG’s clients and case teams to ensure our client organisations, and their people, thrive in the digital age. You will work closely with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, and win buy-in for your recommendations. You will collaborate on challenging projects with team members from many backgrounds, advising BCG’s clients on a variety of People Strategy topics, including:
  • Future ways of working
  • Leadership and CEO advisory
  • Purpose, engagement & culture
  • Learning and development
  • Strategic Workforce planning and people capabilities
  • Organisation development
  • People analytics
This role will provide you with the opportunity for fast-tracked professional development through access to BCG’s global network of experts and intellectual property, best practice learning and development, and some of the world’s leading organisations as clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Case delivery and client service:
  • Bring high quality expertise in People Strategy topics that deliver value to client organisations
  • Execute client work in a case team either as an advisor or individual contributor
  • Proactively pursue knowledge of cutting-edge research, technologies, and methodologies
  • Support presentation of key findings and recommendations to C-level executives
Topic and Practice development:
  • Contribute to People Strategy intellectual property: conduct primary research, develop and refine ideas, methodologies and tools, design learning material, capture credentials and best practice
  • Contribute to BCG’s POP Practice Area Marketing: Publications, external and internal, media
  • Maintain a view of the competitive landscape: Key players, publications, market share, offers, topics, tools
  • Support business development efforts: Client meetings, RFPs

Our Expert Consulting Track (ECT)

The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG’s ability to successfully meet our clients’ demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities. Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges. Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to bring the ‘best of BCG’ to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

  • A minimum of 5 years of consulting (or combination of consulting and industry experience) with deep expertise in organisational development, leadershipdevelopment, HR strategy and/or learning and development
  • Passion for People Strategy topics
  • A track record of driving and delivering high-value work and impact
  • Strong people skills including building empathy, strong relationships, and trust
  • An ability to deal with ambiguity, to think creatively, be adaptable and curious
  • Minimum of a Bachelor degree with outstanding academic performance from a top tier university
LOCATION
Ideally Melbourne or Sydney. This role will require travel within Australia and New Zealand

Date Posted:

14-Dec-2021

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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