(Junior) Talent Manager

This is a great opportunity for an individual with a background in top-tier strategy consulting to help drive the “people-engine” of the most successful independent consultant firm in the world. We want to further build our in-house team by recruiting someone who has strong problem-solving skills, is great at multi-tasking, creative and has superb people skills. In return, we offer a chance to work with a highly-motivated and professionally very accomplished team and with consultants from world-class organisations, across multiple offices in a fast-growing, innovative consulting company. Very limited business travel is required, we offer the potential for flexibility, and office hours are full, but predictable. 

Eden McCallum

Eden McCallum is a strategy consulting firm with a deliberately agile approach, bringing our global team of independent consultants together to help clients resolve their most crucial management challenges from strategy to transformation. Our in-house Client Partners shape and lead every project, ensuring quality, consistency and value. The Talent Team, working closely with the Client Partners, will craft a team of independent consultants with the optimal skills, experience and ‘fit’ for our clients, supported by our in-house Analysts, and extensive expert network to bring unique expertise.

Eden McCallum has delivered more than 3,500+ projects in strategy, operations, transformation, digital and organisation, working in all major sectors and regions of the world. Our clients include a third of the FTSE100, a third of the world’s largest private equity firms, and 50 of the global Fortune 500, and many mid-sized corporates. Established in 2000, Eden McCallum operates from offices in London and Amsterdam.

Role of the (Junior) Talent Manager

The Talent Team lead our relationships with our independent consultants and the People-side of our business. Sitting at the heart of our small, entrepreneurial teams in London and Amsterdam, Talent Managers grow and develop our talent pool, deliver successful teams by staffing our projects and manage excellent and enduring relationships with our consultants and our broader network. They are also closely involved in career coaching, mentoring, and developing our internal Analysts and Consultants as part of the Analyst Programme. Working with the best of consulting colleagues, they collaborate across the business, particularly with our Client Partners, who focus on developing, scoping and managing the delivery of our projects for clients.

Multiple aspects of the role present new and intriguing challenges compared to the same activities in a traditional consulting firm. Our consultants are not employed by us – they actively choose to work with us – so our success depends as much on their experience as on the client impact we deliver. Shaping outstanding Eden McCallum teams involves creative problem solving, complex communications and negotiations, close collaboration with colleagues, cultivating relationships based in trust, and balancing multiple, interlinking requirements - at a rapid pace. Talent Managers are not only aware of the expertise, skills, and availability of our consultants, but also understand what drives them and in what kinds of situations they perform at their best. And because Eden McCallum’s reputation depends on the calibre of the consultants on our teams, our (Junior) Talent Managers are pivotal in delivering our winning proposition to clients.

In addition to their core talent management roles, as part of our fast-developing business, Talent Managers also work with the Partners to deliver strategic and operational improvement projects internally. Talent Managers can make rapid and rewarding impact on the growth of our firm and on the careers of the (independent) consultants with whom we work. Working within such a dynamic environment provides exciting opportunities for personal growth and development.

We are currently looking to grow the Talent Team based in Amsterdam, with a (Junior) Talent Manager either at Junior Manager or Manager level, depending on experience. This role sits in our dynamic, tight-knit Talent Team, with colleagues based in both the UK and the Netherlands. Responsibilities cover talent management primarily in the Netherlands, while also supporting our activities in the UK as required. 
 

Ideal profile

Ideally, two to six years of professional experience, of which at least one or two at a major international strategy consulting firm.

Attributes:

• An understanding of consulting approaches across strategy, operational improvement, organisation and transformation

• A talent for understanding, connecting with and assessing people – not only in relation to core consultant skill sets, but also in terms of what motivates them and what they love doing

• Committed to excellence in all aspects of what they do

• Curious about people, empathetic and energised by engaging with others

• Naturally collaborative and motivated to help others be successful

• A creative problem solver, who enjoys the challenge of many variables

• Fluent, structured and compelling communications style, both verbally and in writing

• At ease with multi-tasking and prioritising under pressure

• A persuasive ambassador for new ideas

• Creative, entrepreneurial, and motivated to shape the firm as it grows

• Fluency in Dutch and English is a must, German is a nice-to-have

• The right to live and work in the Netherlands. This role is based in Amsterdam.

This job description is designed to provide an insight into the requirements of the role but is not exhaustive of the tasks that may be asked of the successful applicant. We are an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds.