Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Executive Research Manager - Global Businesses & Functions - 6 Month FTC
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Executive Research Manager - Global Businesses & Functions - 6 Month FTC
Executive Research Manager
About the Role
Who We Are
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to address their biggest challenges and seize their most impactful opportunities. Founded in 1963, we pioneered business strategy and now help clients achieve transformation, build competitive advantages, and drive measurable outcomes.
Success demands blending digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams deliver expertise across industries and functional areas, offering perspectives that spark meaningful change. BCG’s solutions include management consulting, technology, design, and business purpose, executed through a collaborative cross-functional model that generates results enabling our clients to thrive.
Responsibilities
This is a full-time contract role for approximately 6 months.
The Executive Research Manager focuses on proactively sourcing high-quality professionals for key leadership roles across the EMESA region and beyond. In collaboration with the wider recruitment team, this role supports a diverse range of positions, leveraging varied channels to:
- Identify
- Attract
- Assess critical talent for organic high-growth business initiatives.
What You’ll Do (Expanded Key Accountabilities)
Strategic Sourcing & Executive Search
- Work in collaboration with internal hiring managers and recruiters to:
- Define role requirements
- Understand target candidate profiles
- Develop and own proactive sourcing strategies per search
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Research & Talent Intelligence
- Partner with stakeholders on specific assignments, including:
- High-level name generation
- Org chart analysis
- Building target longlists
- Conducting talent pool mappings
- Identifying passive and active candidates
High-Touch Candidate Experience
- Provide a white-glove executive search experience for stakeholders, including:
- Advising on availability, caliber, and cost of potential candidates
- Guiding candidates through the discrete hiring process
- Building trust-based relationships
Engagement & Marketing
- Own the candidate outreach strategy, including:
- Producing and disseminating targeted marketing content
- Ensuring maximum pre-application engagement
- Proactively targeting candidates via social media and professional networks
Assessment & Reporting
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Conduct in-depth talent analyses evaluating:
- Functional expertise
- Culture BCG fit
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Lead production of Talent Intelligence reports, covering:
- Detailed analyses for search projects
- Internal talent assessments
- Competitor benchmarking
- Intellectual capital insights
Database Management
- Maintain and populate our candidate database, ensuring consistent communication with:
- BCG-fit/silver medallist candidates
Strategic Collaboration
- Collaborate globally across BCG’s functions, business units, and cohorts to:
- Generate creative ideas
- Provide strategic input using data-driven insights
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Requirements
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)
- 6–8 years of experience in:
- In-house talent sourcing
- Head-hunting
- Executive search
- Ideally within professional services
- Expertise in white-glove service delivery, demonstrated through:
- Pipeline creation
- Research-based talent engagement
- Proven mastery of talent acquisition marketing and segmentation
- Proven track record in strengthening business functions in a consulting context
- Expertise in:
- Unearthing top talent across industries
- Talent strategy
- Market trends
- Sourcing technology
- Driven to excel with strong self-starter qualities and:
- Keen sense of responsibility
- Agile mindset
- Ability to prioritise across multiple searches
- Proven abilities in:
- Guiding and converting candidates
- Building trust-based relationships
- Adaptability to evolve ways of working in dynamic talent markets
- Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills
Key Competencies You’ll Bring
- Outcome focus
- Team leadership
- Global mindset
- Remaining calm under pressure
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer: Qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- BCG is an E-Verify Employer. Learn more.
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