Boston Consulting Group Hiring for Talent Acquisition Specialist at Chicago, Illinois Full Time

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As an Experienced Hire Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will support the hiring needs for a set of industry and functional practice areas. As you immerse yourself in emerging talent pools across the specific practice areas you hire for, you will develop close relationships with BCG leadership and peer recruiters. You will play a central role in bringing top talent across industries and functions into the organization, enabling BCG to deliver client solutions that have lasting impact on companies, industries, and society.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist supporting industry and functional practice areas, you will:

• Be responsible for a designated number of Experienced hiring targets for roles within specific practice areas
• Contribute to the definition of and actively shape and support execution of recruiting strategies in partnership with key business stakeholders, including practice area leaders, system and office leadership, and the Director of Experienced and Digital Talent Acquisition
• Support the end-to-end candidate journey and experience: sourcing, screening and selection, offer, conversion and hire
  • Articulate and present BCG and the candidate value proposition in appropriate talent markets
  • Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, screening and selection and conversion approaches
  • Ensure diversity, equity and inclusion strategies and principles are incorporated throughout the steps in the hiring process, from pipeline development to conversion
  • Identify and execute opportunities to improve the candidate journey, such as reducing time to hire
• Support the relationship and be the main point of contact with key business stakeholders in designated practice areas. Engage with these business stakeholders as a trusted partner who has a deep understanding of the talent requirements and the work BCG does. You will build a deep understanding of their business, role requirements and desired candidate profiles
• Actively build talent pipelines to fill current and future roles
  • Leverage Talent Sourcer(s) on the team to build and maintain pipeline of potential candidates for certain roles (including passive candidates) and assess skills, capabilities and interest in BCG
  • Mine referral and direct application candidates for current and future pipeline
• Build a solid understanding of the external market and individual networks to build the top of the funnel and systematically bring in talent, examples include:
  • Understand industries and functional practice areas responsible for and become embedded into the community (e.g., join industry groups)
  • Proactively identify candidate opportunities by maintaining a view of the overall landscape and changes in the marketplace (e.g., M&As, etc.)
  • Leverage existing and new relationships to identify movement of talent in the market, and recommend candidates to appropriate roles in BCG
• Leverage data-driven analytics and reporting to:
  • Provide updates to key business stakeholders to drive decisions and shape recruiting activities
  • Understand critical needs across recruiting funnel
  • Identify opportunities for continuous growth and improvement to achieve KPIs
• Team with BCG’s Shared Services specialists in Nexus who support applicant tracking, reporting, scheduling, and overall pipeline management
• Work as part of an integrated and broader Experienced and Digital Recruiting team
• Team with the Center of Excellences to improve BCG’s recruiting processes (e.g., candidate identification, screening & evaluation) and make more efficient & effective
• Support other practice areas or businesses as needs fluctuate

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

• 4 years of structured candidate talent acquisition experience gained in a professional services, leading retained search, or large corporation, including a proven history of identifying, attracting, managing, and converting top talent, preferred
• Experience with recruiting management level candidates to meet complex role requirements strongly preferred
• Experience building strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders through a dedicated focus on service to the business and delivery
• Experience managing competing demands through strong project management and prioritization skills
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent required
• Ability to travel up to 20%
• The level of this role can be Specialist, Senior Specialist or Lead due to experience and qualifications

Key Qualifications:

• Ability to build deep knowledge and insight on candidate pools in complex sector/ functional topics
• Ability to utilize existing network and/or build network of individuals in relevant talent pools
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills; able to adapt both for audience
• Strong business acumen, intellectual curiosity, judgment, and communication/advisory skills
• Knowledge of external hiring market (e.g., the changing landscapes, M&A deals, etc.)
• Strong relationship skills – with candidates spanning junior and senior roles, with leaders of the businesses, and with peers in other talent acquisition and People team roles
• Strategic and forward thinking, with solid influencing skills
• Proactive, quality driven and an ownership mentality
• Agile and effective in a fast-paced role and culture
• Adept at identifying best practice in process management and driving operational effectiveness and improvements

YOU’LL WORK WITH

The Digital and Experienced Hire Talent Team is organized by technical and industry expertise, allowing recruiters to specialize and also source for multiple roles within a talent pool, serving more than one business unit/practice area and, importantly, allowing candidates one-stop access to BCG’s businesses.

BCG’s HR team works to attract, develop, excite, deploy, and retain the best people in the market. Those in human resources jobs manage the life cycle of all BCG employees-from hiring top talent and developing their skills to rewarding their contributions and supporting career progression and mobility.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Candidates should be aware that BCG currently maintains a policy requiring all US & Canada based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. BCG is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.