Global L&D Lead – Climate & Sustainability

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Climate & Sustainability (C&S) is a new functional practice area (PA) within BCG. The firm’s leadership has made this new business area a priority for growth, focused on delivering impact and accelerating the path to a Net Zero world, while increasing revenues from this type of work 5-10x in the next several years. In addition to aligning our hiring strategy to support these aspirations, there is a need to upskill our existing workforce in this area as well.

The Global Learning & Development (L&D) team is working with the C&S PA leadership to set the broader upskilling strategy, the C&S Academy, and begin its execution. To provide ongoing support of this initiative we are developing a C&S specific L&D team.

Part of the upskilling strategy includes working with external university partners and our own client-facing upskilling team, BCG-U, to develop programs that BCG employees will have an opportunity to be nominated for or apply to. We expect multiple cohorts a year to participate in these program. While this role to evolve with the needs of the business, the initial focus will be as follows:

• Managing the application processes and making approval decisions
• Overseeing the participant management (done by another team member), including coordinating class scheduling, once they have been accepted to a program
• Owning the communication channel strategy (Slack, email, Edcast, etc.) and thinking about how we evolve these in the future
• Tracking participant engagement to ensure they meet requirements for sync and async components of the program
• Creating community learning opportunities for program participants to deepen their C&S affiliations within the BCG network
• Upon BCG participants completion of the course, you will also be responsible for ensuring our talent management team prioritizes these participants for staffing on C&S related projects – specific requirements still to be defined
• Managing partner relationships (universities, BCG-U), working in tight coordination with C&S PA leadership and the C&S Academy owner
• Given the intimate knowledge of this part of the C&S upskilling strategy you will gain, we also expect you to work with the team leading the credential development effort to support in its design and execution
• Be the cereal connector to the global activities on this topic. Aligning across all regions for consistent processes and practices.
• Line management of one C&S Coordinator to help on the above tasks

You’ll work closely with a variety of stakeholders beyond university partners and BCG-U, including the C&S PA leadership, the Global L&D leadership and communications team, our deep pool of C&S topic experts, our C&S product owners, and the other members of the C&S Academy team

You will have the unique opportunity to work with BCG’s thought leaders and help to transform our proprietary knowledge into best-in-class and innovative learning experiences for our BCGers to enable them to thrive and supporting this exciting next step in the firm’s history.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Strong customer focus; responsive to queries in a consistent manner and with a sense of urgency
• Acting as thought partner and trusted advisor to those you work with, whether it’s leaders or colleagues who seek advice or ideas on communication approaches, or people engagement
• Possesses excellent organization and time management skills with ability to manage competing priorities effectively, meeting deadlines
• Works cooperatively with other team members, displaying a high level of motivation and enthusiasm for tasks, manages one additional team member
• Possesses strong interpersonal and communication skills to develop effective working relationships with BCG staff across all levels of seniority
• Excellent English skills: written and oral communication
• Accuracy and attention to detail; experience double-checking and cross-checking own work
• Ability to write slides, to produce tables and graphs in PowerPoint as part of standard reporting
• Ability to respect all BCG information as personal and confidential
• Displays high standards of professional behavior and ethical standard
• Thinking big whilst considering all the detail, often at the same time

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent and experience working within a fast paced, challenging organization
• A passion and interest in Learning & Development as well as Climate & Sustainability
• Experience in an internal communication and/or marketing role
• You have demonstrated success within a role, and can explain how you delivered both operationally and strategically – potentially beyond your initial scope
• Prove organizational skills, including ability to effectively manage and prioritize work, and communicate these workplans to managers and teams

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.