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What You'll Do
We are seeking a strong candidate with experience and passion to join BCG X as EMESA Staffing Trainee located in France.
As Staffing intern, you will apply deep knowledge of talent profiles and client business needs to make key staffing decisions across multiple disciplines. This role will have a focus on BCG X consulting topics. In this role, you will collaborate with chapter leads and leads of BCG X, general managers, and the wider staffing team assigning talent to sold work and new business efforts. You will provide strategic staffing recommendations based on understanding of talent skill sets, teaming insights, and commercial priorities. You will have a pulse on how employees are deployed to projects and use that knowledge to optimize solving resource requests for forecasted projects.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support staffing activities by helping track team availability, project assignment, and liaising with finance to review billing discrepancies.
- Ensure relevant tools and trackers are maintained providing visibility of people commitments such project assignments, training and time off requests.
- Provide hands-on support across administrative staffing activities.
- Coordinate with BCG local HR and relevant stakeholders on employee matters when required.
- Help coordinate staffing requests and support the preparation of staffing recommendations for review by the staffing team.
- Collaborate with Finance and ensure that financial approvals are considered and support finance in ensuring correct financial allocation of assigned resources.
- Provide input to rest of staffing and HR team to maintain up to date accurate information on staff including project assignments, training, recruiting and time off.
- Monitor employee commitments including projects assignments, training participation and time off requests.
- Participate in projects and initiatives aimed at improving staffing processes and employee experience.
YOU’RE GOOD AT
- Having excellent interpersonal skills
- Having strong attention to detail, ensuring a high level of accuracy across your work
- Having strong communication skills; able to communicate with confidence to a range of stakeholders
- Having high integrity, tact, a positive attitude, and an ability to maintain absolute confidentiality
- Being an active team player, autonomous, able to manage ambiguity and self-motivated
- Working effectively in a team and adapting to change
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree (or currently pursuing one)
- Strong interest in HR topics
- A proactive can-do attitude
- High attention to detail and quality of work
- Confidence in following up with a structured, organized approach
- Strong computer proficiency (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Fluency in English
Who You'll Work With
You will work in BCG X Staffing Team and will collaborate with local BCG staffing and finance team to monitor billability, timesheet accuracy and work closely with the HR and Recruiting teams on talent strategies. You will build relationships and work effectively with members of billable and BST talent, Global X staffers, CDC, and the X leadership team.
Additional info
BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG. Turbocharging BCG’s deep industry and functional expertise, BCG X brings together advanced tech knowledge and ambitious entrepreneurship to help organizations enable innovation at scale. With nearly 3,000 technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers, and designers located across 80+ cities, BCG X builds and designs platforms and software to address the world’s most important challenges and opportunities. Teaming across our practices, and in close collaboration with our clients, our end-to-end global team unlocks new possibilities. Together we’re creating the bold and disruptive products, services, and businesses of tomorrow.
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