WHAT YOU'LL DO

Total rewards is BCG’s largest expense with billions of dollars in spend and is a critical, evergreen strategic capability for the firm. As a people-based business, we aspire to optimize our spending across the various rewards categories to improve the overall ROI of both our investment and overall employee EVP.

This leader is responsible for driving the strategy and execution of all elements of our compensation programs. These efforts include conducting regular compensation and benefits reviews throughout the year and across the globe, delivering bonus budgets and supporting the execution of bonus and Firm Performance Bonus payments across the firm, and managing tenure, mid-year and end of year salary increases for our CT, BST, KT, SBU and other talent groups. The role is also responsible for supporting our myriad benefits programs globally including complex benefits reviews and renewals. The role will drive our strategy for ongoing systems support, updating, testing within Workday and our bonus tool Compro. In addition to these compensation and benefits responsibilities, the leader is also responsible for defining and maintaining our overall talent architecture logic and compensation approach and drives our internal equity and calibration with role leveling reviews.

The leader of the Rewards function will engage in evolving our operating model. We are building a best-in-class rewards function with deep functional expertise, improved coordination of fragmented resources in regions and systems, and consolidating transactional activities to lower cost shared service locations. In addition, the function is building a robust, multi-year systems strategy that will require continued leadership to see through to completion and achievement of desired outcomes.

BASIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Compensation philosophy, strategy, business partnering, governance and execution

Owner of proactive, forward-looking base & total comp (TLSS) assessments, benchmarks and approvals
IPB and FPB philosophy and design, provides calculations working closely with global finance, and delivery across all cohorts including CT, BST, KT, SBUs, etc.
Delivery of our compensation elements including funding for IPB and FPB to more than 30,000 non-MDP employees

Benefits and retirement philosophy, strategy and implementation

Benefits strategy including refresh of minimum duty of care standards, differentiated benefits priorities and global coordination, cost management, broker strategy, employee impact
PSRF/financial wellness strategy, evolution, risk management, governance best practice implementation, philosophy refresh, fiduciary responsibility

Support of Managing Director led business and Strategic Business Unit HR

Leadership of highly complex MD performance and compensation management in concert with BCG X, TDA and SBU leadership; Consolidating HR support for SB/SBUs (Note: this portion of the role might later move to a different reporting line)

Infrastructure, operations and compliance

Compensation and rewards systems & infrastructure, strategy, evolution & maintenance including developing and driving north star (SSOT, impact on payroll integration, benefits, efficiency, self-serve and automation)
Compliance with compensation related legislation and strategies for achieving e.g., pay equity
Cross functional topic alignment with employment laws, compliance and other HR related topics

Structuring and coordination of talent archetypes and logic across the business

Talent archetype definitions and management aligned with talent model and financial/target op model metrics and comp approaches, including levels and titles

Team leadership and development

Team management and upskilling; teaming and operating model with local, regional and global rewards communities

YOU'RE GOOD AT

OVERARCHING GOALS OF ROLE

Proactively balance employee EVP and firm financial objectives, taking a strategic view of our value proposition

Enable and provide decision support to systems to optimize profit, meet long term EVP goals and manage risk. Partner with and advise the business on talent and financial trade-offs across all cohorts and all levels. Manage governance across disparate complex stakeholder groups

Ensure linkages across the full breadth of BCG, ensuring a cogent strategy (eg benefits changes within a geo impacting multiple business units, relative compensation moves across core and X, parity across local and global roles for bSt and more

Oversee high quality execution of our rewards approach within highly complex systems and context e.g., acquisitions, hyper-inflation, devaluation, competitive market dynamics and delivery to more than 30,000 employees

Drive high-impact change-the-business agenda, ensuring forward, outward looking approach including market sensing capabilities and maintaining technical acumen

Manage risk, ensure compliance, develop and communicate guardrails and governance requirements

Build a positive people culture in rewards team and build with local, regional and global rewards communities

Participate in various senior leadership committees including the Operations Leadership Team (OLT), BST-PMT, CPMT, SDDC, and present regularly at Executive Committee on comp and benefits related topics

KEY COMPETENCIES

Sits at the intersection of our talent strategy and financial objectives – requires the ability to understand both requirements and help BCG thread the needle

Requires the stature and credibility to go "toe to toe" with our most senior business leaders bringing the appropriate mix of collaboration and governance; is accountable to EC and OC

Must be willing to challenge the status quo ensuring our total rewards are fit for purpose, evolve with market and EVP changes, and are enabled by the appropriate technology

Increasingly coordinate/manage moves with impact across multiple parts of the firm (eg core and X salaries, local and global BST, etc)

Continually increasing in complexity as business has evolved and expanded

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in business, Human Resources or related field or experience in the consulting industry and advanced degree (MBA or other Masters) preferred.

Minimum of 15 years’ experience in Human Resources or consulting industry

Experience in the talent management lifecycle in professional services firm and/or organizations with strong cultural support for progressive human resource practices.

Open to both Business Services Team and Consulting Team members

Predictable, international travel will be required.

YOU'LL WORK WITH

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.

WHO WE ARE

BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world’s best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible—and unlocking your potential to advance the world. Our team called Global Services (GS) provides corporate support to business areas such as Finance, Legal, HR, Marketing and IT. This diverse team of experts, operators and specialists represent all levels from Partner to entry level staff, operating across the globe in multiple countries. Global Services is in short, the backbone of BCG.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

BCG is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to a policy of administering all employment decisions and actions without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.