LAB Executive Placement & Career Services Senior Manager

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You’ll Do

BCG’s LAB (London-Amsterdam-Brussels) Executive Placement (EP) & Career Services (CS) function is an internal career coaching and strategic placement service for BCG employees & Alumni. The team helps individuals translate their experience, strengths, and career ambitions into focused search strategies and connects them with relevant opportunities across the executive talent market.

As Executive Placement & Career Services Senior Manager, you will build and lead this new capability across LAB. You will manage a team to deliver career transition coaching and to oversee senior and complex placement cases, owning the senior outplacement program, and develop the external relationships and market insight needed to deliver a high-quality, confidential placement service.

Primary Responsibilities Include Executive placements

• Oversee a portfolio of senior career transitions, ensuring individuals’ experience, strengths, and future interests are matched with a broad range of relevant market opportunities across London, Amsterdam and Brussels.
• Ensure individuals receive high-quality practical support, including career positioning, CV and cover-letter feedback, interview preparation, offer evaluation, negotiation, and offer benchmarking.
• Upskill the team in executive search and in proactively identifying and consolidating executive opportunities through BCG’s network, external platforms, search firms, and priority employers.
• Provide tailored guidance on selected complex or sensitive career transitions, helping senior employees clarify their ambitions and develop focused career strategies.

Career Services

• Lead our Career Services team who provide career coaching to BCGers across the three offices, with a strong focus on enabling our senior cohorts (Project Leaders, Principals, and Partners) to explore their strengths, skills, and ambitions, including career purpose and self-assessment.
• Help translate self-reflection into practical career strategies or alternative career paths, and support relationship management to find the right role.

External Networking / Corporate Partnership

• Build and maintain strong relationships with executive-search firms, headhunters, specialist recruiters, and senior talent decision-makers to improve access to relevant executive opportunities.
• Develop new and maintain existing Corporate Partnerships with priority companies, BCG clients, and Alumni, strengthening awareness of BCG talent and creating additional routes into the executive market.

Collaboration & Projects

• Build and embed the Executive Placement service across LAB, determining and delivering on the operating model, participant journey, delivery standards, and KPIs/measures of success.
• Partner cross-regionally to strengthen capabilities, share successful approaches, and improve the consistency of the service.
• Work closely with the Alumni team and more broadly across the People team to shape the people agenda and employee value proposition.
• Own the senior outplacement program, overseeing its proposition, coaching model, delivery standards, participant experience, and outcomes.
• Use placement data, participant feedback, opportunity pipelines, and external benchmarking to provide clear reporting and recommendations to LAB system leadership.

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a team of two in Executive Placement and two in Career Services, setting priorities, allocating cases, reviewing service quality, addressing delivery barriers, and supporting …