LAB Staffing Manager - 6 month FTC

Locations: London | Amsterdam | Brussels

Who We Are

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What You'll Do

Staffing is a business-critical function at BCG, managing the overall people deployment strategy and capacity management within the 3 LAB offices. You will be a member of the LAB Staffing team and you will work closely with the LAB Staffing Team, PA nodes and fellow People Team colleagues.

This role is also responsible for staffing case requests and you will report into the LAB Staffing Director. Line management of one or more staffing specialists may form part of this role, subject to experience and the team structure. You will take responsibility as part of the escalation point for the areas you staff and escalating to the Staffing Director, when appropriate.

Working closely with the LAB Staffing Team, you will help ensure the LAB billability remains optimal in the practice areas you staff and strike the right balance between case requests and People development and preferences.

Please note: the precise set of PPPLs and A/C cohorts assigned to this role may evolve during the contract period. The successful candidate will be expected to embrace this flexibility as part of the role.

What will you do

• Work with closely with the Practice Area Nodes, the LAB Staffing Team and the LAB Staffing Director to achieve optimum deployment of PPPLs and A/Cs across the LAB system:
  • Communicate daily with the revevant PA Nodes and the LAB Staffing Director to understand the pyramid situation and needs
  • Being a sparring partner to the PA Nodes and challenging staffing decision when needed
  • Manage “freecap” for your cohorts and assign them to proposals or other non billable work, in line with agreed business priorities
  • Manage staffing capacity, validate holidays and flex-time requests, support and promote cross office staffing when relevant
  • Monitor billabilty in the Practice Areas you staff
• Understand PPPL and A/C needs to assign them to projects overseing the best match with their preferences and career ambitions.
  • Attend career development committee meetings for your cohorts
  • Work closely with PA Nodes and CDC to understand the development needs of your cohorts, provide input to CDC meetings and help action development needs of your cohort
  • Meet regulary with the PPPLs and A/Cs to understand their staffing and development needs. Advise them of current cases, while also understanding their goals, preferences and expertise
• Establish & maintain the relationship with senior stakeholders
  • Understand their commercial priorities and client-based specific needs
  • Manage the complex staffing escalations
• Collect and share the weekly staffing needs across PAs you staff
  • Provide guidance to the Practice Areas on staffing, understanding their experience, aspirations, and circumstances, while always aiming at balancing between client, team and individual needs. Challenge the request, scope, team setup where needed.
  • Update and share the weekly pipeline with staffing team, identify priorities to help staffers make the ri