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Manager, Talent Strategy

Bain & Company · Boston, MA · 1 mo ago
Hybrid$99k–$119k/yrFull-time
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for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: "WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK" (maybe not needed as heading? Could be about culture but not a required heading). There's "WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH", "WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM", "WHAT YOU’LL DO", "ABOUT YOU", "U.S. COMPENSATION INFORMATION". Also benefits described. We need to map to allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. We need to include sections only if content exists. We have Pay info: salary ranges per state, bonus, 401k etc. So we can have

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. Schedule: not mentioned explicitly; maybe not include. About the role: could be description of role, maybe from "WHAT YOU’LL DO" and "WHERE YOU’LL FIT". Could combine. Responsibilities: from "WHAT YOU’LL DO" bullet list. Requirements: from "ABOUT YOU" experience, education, etc. Qualifications: maybe overlapping with requirements; but we can treat "Knowledge, Skills & Abilities" as Skills, and "Education" as Qualifications? Actually Qualifications could be education and experience. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's map: - About the role: summary of role purpose, maybe from "WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK" and "WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH" and "WHERE YOU’LL FIT". Could be a paragraph. - Responsibilities: list of duties from "WHAT YOU’LL DO" (Run-the-Business... and Change-the-Business...). Use
  • . - Requirements: maybe experience and education from "ABOUT YOU": 5-8 years experience, Bachelor's required, MBA preferred. - Qualifications: maybe "Knowledge, Skills & Abilities" list. - Skills: maybe also from same list? Could combine but we need separate sections only if content. Could put Skills as separate list of specific skills (organizational, analytical, communication, stakeholder management, judgment, AI interest). Qualifications could be education and experience. - Benefits: list. - Pay: salary ranges and bonus, 401k. - Schedule: not present, omit. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Must keep details like percentages, specific forums, etc. We need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences. Let's craft. First, About the role: combine paragraphs from "WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK", "WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH", "WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM". Keep details. Responsibilities: list items from WHAT YOU’LL DO: include sub-bullets? We'll just list each bullet as
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  • . Requirements: experience and education. Qualifications: maybe "Knowledge, Skills & Abilities" list. Skills: maybe we could split but risk duplication. Could treat "Knowledge, Skills & Abilities" as Skills, and Qualifications as education+experience. That seems fine. Benefits: list from compensation section. Pay: salary ranges per state, bonus, 401k. Let's write. Be careful to not include boilerplate like "We are proud to be consistently recognized..." that's okay as part of About the role. We must not include application instructions, EEO, etc. Not present. Now produce HTML. We'll start with

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    . Make sure to preserve all details: percentages, specific forums, etc. Let's extract details. About the role content: From "WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK": "We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world’s best places to work. We are currently the top ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and have earned the #1 overall spot a record seven times. Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don’t happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment. We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally." From "WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH": "The Manager, Global Talent Strategy sits at the center of the Chief Talent Officer's organization, serving as a key operational and strategic execution resource for the VP, Talent Strategy. This individual ensures that the CTO's critical forums run smoothly, that cross-functional talent priorities are tracked and communicated, and that work is delivered with strong judgment, independence, and executive readiness." From "WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM": "Success in this role is defined less by responding to what is asked and more by anticipating what is needed — looking around corners, staying ahead of the agenda, and driving work forward before it is requested. The role operates at the intersection of program management, chief-of-staff support, and strategic project delivery — with approximately 60–70% focused on running and optimizing the talent function's core business processes and 30–40% dedicated to change-the-business initiatives including Talent Transformation and related workstreams. This fluctuates across the year depending on the current focus areas. While much of the role is operational in nature, it requires consistent strategic discretion — knowing what to surface, when, and how, and owning the answer rather than just the output. The Manager, Global Talent Strategy is proactively shaping the Talent agenda materials, flagging risks before they surface, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. The role is well-suited to a highly organized, proactive operator who can move fluidly between process management, stakeholder coordination, and strategic problem-solving. Work at the center of Bain’s global talent agenda: This role sits at the intersection of the CTO’s office and Bain’s most critical talent priorities — providing direct exposure to board- and GOC-level topics and the senior leaders driving them. Own meaningful work from day one: The breadth of the 60/40 model means no two months look the same — you will move fluidly between running core business operations and contributing to transformation initiatives that reshape how Bain manages its talent function globally. Build a rare cross-functional skill set: You will develop deep fluency in how a global professional services firm operates — working across talent sub-functions, regional leaders, finance, and senior executives in a way few roles at this level allow. Opportunity to innovate: Build and deploy expertise in AI tools to improve process efficiency and quality of output — this role has genuine license to identify and implement better ways of working." We can combine into a paragraph or multiple paragraphs. Use

    for prose. Responsibilities list: from "WHAT YOU’LL DO". Let's extract bullet points: Run-the-Business / Chief of Staff Support (60–70%) - Talent Forum Management - Lead proactive agenda-setting, material compilation, and pre-read drafting for recurring CTO talent forums: quarterly all-hands talent town halls, monthly global and regional talent syncs, bi-weekly CTO Leadership Team meetings, and the annual in-person Talent Strategy and Experience LT Meeting. - Support broader firm forums — annual firmwide town hall, Board Meeting, GOC meeting, and GLS meeting — owning agenda material compilation, planning, stakeholder coordination, talking points drafting, and post-meeting follow-up logistics. - Cross-Functional Coordination - Serve as connection and coordination point across talent sub-functions and regions to facilitate best-practice sharing, reduce duplication, and ensure alignment on shared priorities. - Support development and tracking of talent priorities: receiving inputs from stakeholders, consolidating and communicating priorities, and tracking progress against them. - Operational Programs - Manage the ongoing hiring exception process end-to-end; lead efforts to innovate on the process, including leveraging AI tools to improve efficiency and quality of analysis. - Support budgeting conversations and related financial tracking as needed. - Support the Highsight benchmarking effort, including coordinating data gathering and synthesizing insights. - Own continued operation and stakeholder communication for the Attendance Tracking Dashboard, including oversight of data accuracy and rollout of updates. Change-the-Business / Strategic Project Execution (30–40%) - Talent Transformation PMO - Serve as part of the PMO for the Talent Transformation initiative: tracking initiatives and potential savings, ensuring anticipated freed capacity is realized and thoughtfully redistributed, supporting cross-regional coordination across workstreams, and contributing to implementation of selected workstreams. - Maintain the opportunity model making necessary updates as new data is available. - Maintain close coordination with the Finance Transformation to ensure alignment and minimize gaps. - Future State Talent Model - Support the implementation of future state operating model changes within the talent function (i.e., continued build-out of updated HR delivery models across business units and regions). - Ad Hoc Strategic Support - Support ad hoc projects as they arise and fit within the team's mandate (e.g., in 2025, supported the FP travel connectivity workstream). We need to preserve all details. We'll put each top-level bullet as

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      • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It didn't forbid nested lists, but safer to keep flat list with detailed sentences. We'll create each responsibility as a sentence. Requirements: from "ABOUT YOU" Experience and Education. Experience: "5–8 years of professional experience that includes: Current or recent Bain consulting experience at the Senior Associate Consultant through Consultant level, or equivalent client-facing consulting experience, strongly preferred." Education: "Bachelor's degree required. MBA or master's degree preferred." We'll put as list items. Qualifications: maybe we treat as "Knowledge, Skills & Abilities" list. But we already have Skills section; maybe Qualifications = Education+Experience, Skills = Knowledge, Skills & Abilities. Let's do that. Thus: Requirements: experience and education. Qualifications: maybe we could include "Strong organizational and program management skills..." etc? Actually those are skills. So Qualifications could be education and experience (makes sense). Skills = Knowledge, Skills & Abilities list. Let's extract Knowledge, Skills & Abilities bullet points: - Strong organizational and program management skills with proven ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities and commitments. - Proactive and independent operator — anticipates what is needed, communicates ahead of problems, and closes the loop without prompting. - Strong analytical capability with a hypothesis-first orientation — able to define the core business question, develop a point of view on the answer before building analysis, and ensure every deliverable is decision-ready and executive-ready with minimal revision; comfortable zero-defect'ing their own work before it reaches leadership. - Ability to absorb

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