Executive Assistant at Consulting Firm in Los Angeles
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Job Description
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA, USA
COMPANY: Boston Consulting Group
SALARY: Up to $102K + benefits
TYPE: Hybrid
REPORTS TO: Managing Director
COMPANY: Boston Consulting Group
SALARY: Up to $102K + benefits
TYPE: Hybrid
REPORTS TO: Managing Director
What You'll Do
You are essential to our office, essential to our success. We are Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a 60-years young strategy consulting firm. Over the past few years, BCG has been ranked #1 in Consulting Magazine's annual "Best Firms to Work For" survey and #12 on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list.
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. In this role, you’re the backbone of the function. You ensure that the Managing Director & Partners (MDPs) and/or Partners you support have what they need to seamlessly serve our clients, and meet their internal commitments and goals.
We operate in a hybrid model, meaning you’ll be in the office more than half of the time and have the flexibility to work remotely (if you choose) for the other part of the week. While in the office, you will be surrounded by a community of intelligent, highly motivated and service-minded people. EAs help shape our culture by actively participating in office life and collaborate across functions to help fellow Business Services Team (BST) members.
We foster a supportive environment that propels your growth in the areas that inspire you. We provide real-time feedback, nurture curiosity, empower decision-making, and allow room to learn from mistakes. The Executive Assistant role offers numerous growth opportunities across a variety of areas including event planning, affiliation engagement, case team logistics management, client relationship building, and maximizing how the MDP allocates their time and energy.
YOU'RE GOOD AT
Being a proactive partner and managing your MDP’s time in a fast-paced, high volume, and constantly evolving client service environment:
Building effective working relationships with key stakeholders (this will be crucial to your success!):
Proactively leaning in to support high leverage activities for MDPs (this will vary by need):
Taking initiative to bring things "from the back burner to the front burner" for MDPs.
Performing other duties as assigned or required, including some personal support; responsibilities will vary.
You Bring (experience & Qualifications)
Additional
You are essential to our office, essential to our success. We are Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a 60-years young strategy consulting firm. Over the past few years, BCG has been ranked #1 in Consulting Magazine's annual "Best Firms to Work For" survey and #12 on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list.
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. In this role, you’re the backbone of the function. You ensure that the Managing Director & Partners (MDPs) and/or Partners you support have what they need to seamlessly serve our clients, and meet their internal commitments and goals.
We operate in a hybrid model, meaning you’ll be in the office more than half of the time and have the flexibility to work remotely (if you choose) for the other part of the week. While in the office, you will be surrounded by a community of intelligent, highly motivated and service-minded people. EAs help shape our culture by actively participating in office life and collaborate across functions to help fellow Business Services Team (BST) members.
We foster a supportive environment that propels your growth in the areas that inspire you. We provide real-time feedback, nurture curiosity, empower decision-making, and allow room to learn from mistakes. The Executive Assistant role offers numerous growth opportunities across a variety of areas including event planning, affiliation engagement, case team logistics management, client relationship building, and maximizing how the MDP allocates their time and energy.
YOU'RE GOOD AT
Being a proactive partner and managing your MDP’s time in a fast-paced, high volume, and constantly evolving client service environment:
- Calendars: Owns and drives calendar/complex meeting scheduling.
- Travel: Coordinating end-to-end travel needs, including booking all travel and hotels, directions, commuting time and ground transportation.
- Payments: Processing timesheets and expenses on a timely basis.
- Admin: Supporting administrative aspects of MDP internal commitments: practice area activities, BCG leadership committees, recruiting, etc.
Building effective working relationships with key stakeholders (this will be crucial to your success!):
- MDPs: Understands priorities and exercises sound judgment to make appropriate trade-off.
- Clients & Assistants: Facilitate the scheduling process and relevant communications with friendly professionalism and high attention to detail; build client relationships.
- EA & AA Peers: Lead case team logistics and work together to support other Partners, Principals and BST leaders on the case team; provide back-up support to other assistant team members.
- BST Peers & Resources: Obtain and share information with wider team as needed; help case team navigate internal resources.
Proactively leaning in to support high leverage activities for MDPs (this will vary by need):
- Assisting with account planning and client relationship management.
- Conducting research and gathering information.
- Assisting with the creation and preparation of client team materials: slides, proposals, onboarding decks, including proofreading, and copying/binding.
- Event planning for your MDPs.
- Additional items that you (or the MDPs) feel may be useful – be creative and think outside the box.
- Acting as a thought partner and trusted advisor to MDPs, their teams and others at BCG.
- Keeping them informed of critical information they may not be aware of.
- Guiding them toward making right decisions about use of time.
Taking initiative to bring things "from the back burner to the front burner" for MDPs.
Performing other duties as assigned or required, including some personal support; responsibilities will vary.
You Bring (experience & Qualifications)
- A bachelor's degree is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated leadership and/or customer service experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a very fast-paced environment supporting senior executives is preferred
Additional
- High customer service orientation: highly responsive, strong interpersonal and communication skills, wants to deliver great results at all times; obsessed with acts of service.
- Strong intellectual curiosity: a hunger and desire to always be learning, experiencing, and growing.
- Insightful: drives the business forward by connecting the dots.
- Organized: excellent at time and project management, has clear systems and composure to deal with multiple tasks.
- Sweats the small stuff: strong attention to detail and accuracy, particularly when under pressure.
- Relationship-oriented: ability to develop effective working relationships with the Consulting Team and clients.
- Team player: proactively seeks opportunities to help others; will go above and beyond in order to get the job done.
- Dedicated to our values: open and inclusive to all members of the team and support them as equals.
- Committed to improving the status quo: we respect and hire people who are willing to ask questions.
- Good judgment: highly professional and diplomatic (dealing with consultants who can be very demanding at times).
- Trustworthy: a vault (you will be privy to confidential information).
- Flexibility: doesn't get frustrated by priorities changing; open to feedback, adjusts to different working styles; embraces new ways of working in a hybrid environment.
- Self-motivated: a "can-do" demeanor with an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Passion: hone your “superpower” and bring your true authentic self to work.
How to apply for this job
Job Location
This role is located in the financial district of downtown Los Angeles.
