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What You'll Do

As a Learning & Development Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring a seamless onboarding experience for all staff across London, Amsterdam, and Brussels (LAB). You will also oversee the local training programs for our senior consulting staff (PPPLs: Project Leaders, Principals, and Partners), ensuring they have access to high-quality learning content.

 

Business partner for our new hire onboarding and PPPL staff

Partner with Career Development team, Talent Partners and Practice Area (PA) Nodes to understand development needs & skills gaps for the cohorts and for specific individualsPartner with HR, Career Development and Function leads to deliver a high-quality, tailored onboarding program for all new hiresPartner with EMESA and Global L&D teamsCo-shape EMESA or global initiatives to ensure LAB knowledge, best practices and needs are taken into account.Support roll-out of regional/global initiatives and campaigns, driving content development or pilots where required

Project management

Oversee successful implementation, execution & administration of the training offer for PPPLs and the onboarding programDrive projects at LAB, EMESA and Global level in line with strategy and business goalsLead change efforts to revamp curriculum, delivery and communication

Build and develop the LAB L&D trainer team

Attract & motivate new trainers to join our L&D trainer teamEnsure appropriate onboarding and development of L&D trainers, building a pipeline into regional & global L&D faculty where requiredDevelop relationships with training agencies & vendorsServe as part of the L&D facultyDeliver local/system and/or regional/global trainingsUpskill and coach new L&D trainers

Responsible for managing L&D Specialists across our three offices and India

Manage and support the team members in each office to execute their day-to-day tasksOversee their professional development and provide apprenticeshipCreate an encouraging, supporting and stimulating work environmentSupport the other L&D Managers during sickness and holidays

This list of responsibilities should not be construed to imply that these duties, responsibilities, and requirements are the sole standards for this position. Upon their manager’s request, incumbents may be required to perform other related duties

What You'll Bring

6+ years’ experience in Learning & DevelopmentUniversity advanced degreeExperience with onboarding programsExperience leading and managing a teamExperience in training or coaching within a professional services / consultancy environmentStrong interpersonal and communication skillsStrong organisational skills, orientation to detail and proactivityExcellent English skills (verbal and written communication)

You're good at

Understanding of the consulting business, and the nature of work we do with clientsProficiency in all standard software used at BCG (Excel, Powerpoint, Word…)Experience with LMS software (e.g. SABA)A ‘can do’ and flexible attitude, creative problem-solving skills and tenacity to find solutionsStrong communication and facilitation skillsPatience and sensitivity to listen to and deal with complex issuesSelf-motivated, works independently and takes initiativeWell organized, with strong ability to plan ahead and manage large number of initiatives in parallelWorking effectively under narrow time limitations or produce accurate resultsHigh degree of integrityHaving excellent project management skills to ensure timely closure of activitiesClarity, tact and professionalism in communicationsExperience in managing key stakeholder relationships, including interactions with Senior ManagementBeing able to give honest and open feedback in a timely manner

Who You'll Work With

The L&D Senior Director, L&D EMESA managers, People Senior Director, L&D Partner, Senior consulting team, Senior L&D manager and L&D managerMultiple stakeholders, both from Consulting Teams (CT) and from Business Services Teams (BST), from your system and from regional/global level.

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