Boston Consulting Group
WHAT YOU’LL DO You are essential to our office, essential to our success.
We are Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a 50-years young strategy consulting firm.
BCG was recently ranked the #3 Best Company to Work For by Fortune Magazine and #1 in Consulting Magazine’s annual ” Best Firms to Work For” survey (for the third consecutive year, a list we’ve been on since they started doing the survey 16 years ago!).
While we are proud of our heritage, we are even more excited about our future, and if you are the person we are looking for, we’d be excited to share it with you.
We are looking for a Senior Administrative Assistant to support several members of our team.
At BCG, Senior AAs are an essential part of the office and are expected to grow throughout their careers, building and improving their skills to match the evolving needs of BCG and our clients.
In this role, you’ll ensure that the consultants you support have what they need to seamlessly serve the needs of our clients.
This position involves booking (and unbooking) travel, scheduling (and rescheduling) meetings, keeping track of time and expenses, supporting the case team process, and generally keeping up with the fast pace of our Consulting Team.
While the consultants spend most of their time at the client site, back here at home base (aka the BOS office) you will be surrounded by an Administrative Team that consists of a group of really smart, team-oriented people.
Senior AAs actively participate in office life, are flexible and willing to help fellow Business Services Team (BST) members and collaborate across functions.
We work hard together, and we go out of our way to support each other we want everyone to be successful, individually and as a team.
We won’t define a career path for you but some of our AAs we’ve hired in this role have gone on to have long and successful careers as Executive Assistants at BCG; others have gone into work in one of our many Practice Areas; some have managed teamsor rotated through a number of other functions.
Your career at BCG will be at the intersection of your skills and desires and the needs of our business; it will only be limitedby your investment.
YOU’RE GOOD AT Building effective working relationships with key stakeholders: consultants, clients, assistants and peers this will be crucial to your success youll succeed at this by: * Overseeing administrative support for Partners /Principals (Ps) in a fast-paced and changing client service environment.
* Organizing and scheduling client and internal meetings and event.
* Coordinating point-to-point travel needs as necessary including booking all travel and hotels, directions, commuting time and ground transportation.
* Processing timesheets and expenses on a timely basis.
* Assisting with preparation of case team materials and basic PowerPoint/Excel tasks.
* Supporting administrative aspects of Ps internal commitments: practice area activities, BCG leadership committees, recruiting, etc.
* Understanding preferences relating to travel, calendar, etc.
* Facilitating the scheduling process and relevant communications with clients and their assistants.
* Working together to support other PL/P/Partners on the case team; provide back-up assistance as needed for other EA/AAs and peers.
* Obtaining and sharing information with wider team as needed; help case team navigateinternal resources.
* Performing other duties as assigned or required; responsibilities will vary.
YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS) * You bring curiosity in understanding the big picture and the drive to learn and independently ask why in order to exercise appropriate judgement.
* Insight to connect the dots, identify patterns, and make predictions to take intuitive leaps.
* Willingness to take ownership and an openness to feedback.
* Effective working style with the ability to build connections across all stakeholders.
* Demonstrated leadership and/or customer service experience * Minimum of 3 years experience in a fast paced environment (really fast paced!), strongly preferred * Bachelors degree required YOU’LL WORK WITH Our business management and operations team members work to ensure that BCG is running smoothly, efficiently, and productively.
We are made up of executive and administrative (or case team) assistants, visual service artists, receptionists, facilities staff, and the team leaders and office coordinators who manage these operations and business management jobs.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Effective November 1, 2021, all new US hires must be fully vaccinated* or subject to a religious or medical exemption.
*two weeks after receiving the final dose of a WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccine