BCG X Global TA Strategy and Transformation Senior Manager

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 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. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

We are seeking a strong candidate with experience and passion to join BCG X as Global Talent Acquisition Senior Manager – Strategy and Transformation located in London or Lisbon.

As the BCG X Global TA Senior Manager – Strategy and Transformation, you will help shape how BCG X attracts, engages, assesses and hires exceptional talent globally. You will lead a portfolio of strategic recruitment initiatives designed to build stronger global capabilities, improve how we work and create more consistent, scalable experiences for candidates, interviewers and recruiting teams.

Working in partnership with the Global Recruiting Senior Director and senior recruitment leadership, you will take end-to-end ownership of complex global projects—from framing the opportunity and developing the business case through securing alignment, implementation, change adoption and measurement. The portfolio will evolve as our priorities change, requiring you to move confidently between different recruitment challenges and bring structure and momentum to new and sometimes ambiguous problems.

Key responsibilities include:

Strategy and Transformation

• Lead complex global recruitment transformation projects from initial problem definition and business case through implementation, adoption and impact measurement.
• Identify, prioritise and take ownership of a varied portfolio of strategic priorities. These could include recruitment marketing and brand activation, global talent mapping and sourcing, recruiter and interviewer capability building, or greater standardisation of recruitment and assessment approaches.
• Turn emerging recruitment challenges and opportunities into structured programmes of work, defining objectives, workplans, success measures, dependencies and the approach required to deliver change.
• Build compelling recommendations, business cases and executive-ready narratives that translate complex problems and evidence into clear choices for senior recruitment leaders.
• Mobilise and guide cross-functional project teams across recruitment, marketing, technology and the wider People function, building alignment and maintaining momentum across global initiatives.
• Work alongside more junior members of the team, coaching and mentoring them to develop their skills in presenting, gathering insights from data and driving large scale positive change.
• Capture learning from completed initiatives and use it to continuously improve our global recruitment capabilities, processes and ways of working.

Analytics & Insights

• Use recruitment data to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions, develop recommendations and evaluate the effectiveness and impact of changes we make, then take it then next step – driving change through influencing a network of senior leaders and recruitment stakeholders to adopt new TA practices.
• Strengthen recruitment reporting and insights by partnering with our Recruitment Analytics Specialist and working across our data lake and Tableau reporting environment. Drawing on data brought together from our ATS, CRM and HRIS, you will help improve dashboards, turn reporting into actionable insight, identify opportunities for improvement and provide additional analytical capability for priority business questions.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Combining strong recruitment analytics expertise with a passion for solving complex business challenges
• Being equally comfortable building trusted reporting and insights, leading strategic initiatives, and influencing senior stakeholders through compelling, data-driven storytelling.
• Excellent stakeholder management and consulting skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, build alignment, and drive change without formal authority.
• Solving ambiguous business problems using data, curiosity, and critical thinking.
• Taking ownership and thriving in a fast-paced, evolving environment where priorities can shift quickly.
• Communicating complex ideas clearly and confidently, adapting messages for technical and non-technical audiences alike, locally and globally
• Building trusted relationships across functions and geographies
• Collaborating with colleagues to deliver meaningful change.
• Displaying a continuous improvement mindset and actively looking for opportunities to simplify processes, improve experiences, and increase business impact

What You'll Bring

• Master’s degree with high academic achievement required
• Indicatively 8-10+ years of experience, ideally in consulting or project management with recruitment/talent acquisition experience, preferably in tech environments
• Significant experience in recruitment, talent acquisition or recruitment transformation within a complex, global organisation.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional programmes from problem definition and business case through implementation and measurement.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguity and translate evidence into practical recommendations.
• Strong analytical capability, including using recruitment data and reporting to identify insights, opportunities and business impact.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, including developing executive-ready narratives and gaining alignment from senior leaders.
• Experience leading through influence, mobilising diverse global teams and maintaining momentum without relying on formal authority.

Who You'll Work With

You’ll be part of BCG X’s Global Recruiting team, working closely with the Global Recruiting Senior Director and People Executive Director to shape and deliver priorities across our global recruitment agenda.

You’ll partner with recruitment leaders and teams around the world, as well as colleagues across BCG’s People, Marketing and Recruitment Technology functions. Depending on the initiative, you’ll bring together the right expertise from across these groups, creating alignment around the problem, approach and outcomes and leading the work through to delivery.

You’ll also work closely with our Recruitment Analytics Specialist, combining recruitment expertise with data and insight to identify opportunities, inform decisions and measure the impact of the changes we make.

Additional info

At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person collaboration plays an important role in our culture, mentorship, and professional development.

For this role, you will generally be expected to work from a BCG office or in person with clients on a regular basis (typically around 50% of working time), depending on business needs and in line with local policies and practices.

We aim to provide a dynamic and collaborative environment that fosters connection and teamwork.

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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