LAB Executive Placement & Career Services Senior Manager

Who We Are

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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 their professional development and performance.

You’re good at

• Building trust quickly and advising senior individuals with empathy, credibility, and discretion.
• Navigating ambiguity and building up a team.
• Balancing strategic direction with hands-on delivery across sensitive and complex cases.
• Using data and market insight to shape priorities and inform senior leadership.
• Communicating clearly and influencing across complex regional and global networks.
• Developing others through regular coaching, constructive feedback, and clear expectations.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of experience in Recruitment, Executive Search, or HR (professional services experience preferred).
• Executive placement or senior-level search experience
• Previous consulting experience is a plus.
• Master’s degree or equivalent, a coaching qualification is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of the UK executive search market, Belgian and Dutch market knowledge is a strong plus.
• Track record of managing teams, projects and engaging senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, integrity, and the ability to manage sensitive information.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with search firms and corporate partners
• Fluency in English (Dutch and/or French is a plus).

Who You'll Work With

You’ll join the LAB Alumni & Career Services team, working closely with colleagues across London, Amsterdam, and Brussels. You’ll also collaborate with multiple internal stakeholders, including Alumni, Talent, Staffing, Career Development, HR, and the broader People Team, as well as global colleagues in Career Services and Alumni Relations.

Additional info

At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person collaboration plays an important role in our culture, mentorship, and professional development.

For this role, you will generally be expected to work from a BCG office or in person with clients on a regular basis (typically around 50% of working time), depending on business needs and in line with local policies and practices.

We aim to provide a dynamic and collaborative environment that fosters connection and teamwork.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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