Director - Talent Insights & Assessment (German Speaking)

**Director, Talent Insights & Assessment**

**Based**:Cologne - minimum 60% office based when not delivering

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Hours**:Full time

**About BTS**

We are a global strategy implementation consulting firm that turn our clients’ ideas and strategies into results. We do this by focusing on the people side of strategy. We design fun, powerful experiences that have a profound and lasting impact on people and their careers. We inspire new ways of thinking, building critical capabilities and unleashing business success.

We laugh a lot and have a lot of fun in our team-based setting, where our entrepreneurial culture of freedom and responsibility empowers you to contribute from your first day.

**To find out more about our Talent Insights & Assessment work click**here

**We help our clients in the following areas**:

- **Talent Frameworks** - Defining what great leadership looks like in your
organization.
- **Talent and Leadership development** - Accelerate the development of new
capabilities and values needed to shape your future.
- **High Potential Identification** - Identify and develop rising leaders who will
have a profound impact on the future.
- **Succession** - Create a leadership bench for strategically important roles.
- **Talent Analytics** - Inform talent planning and decision-making with data
- driven insights.
- **Talent Acquisition** - Select the best new talent in a way that promotes
diversity and accelerates business success.

We build our assessments with real people in mind and create experiences optimized for engagement, scientific and practical, that create value at all levels of talent and through all stages of their career. We strive to go beyond the traditional client-vendor relationship to be your total people partner.

**What you’ll do in your role**
- **Drive a business development pipeline** by growing and maintaining strong client relationships and partnering with BTS Account Managers.
- **Work on multiple projects across various industries and internal teams** in Europe. Leading projects, scoping, framing, designing solving complex organisational and execution problems. Co-creating solutions with our clients and a cross-expertise team of BTSers (e.g. colleagues from BTS Coach, Leadership CoE, Digital, Strategy, Change & Transformation etc.) to deliver amazing client impact.
- **Contribute to developing innovative best practices** and BTS intellectual property.
- Bring the best of BTS capabilities by **designing client-specific solutions across the talent lifecycle**. This will include assessment specific solutions (e.g., simulations, role-play exercises, 360 surveys, Situational Judgement Tests, interviews, evaluation forms, feedback reports, etc.) and embedding assessment in broader talent, culture and learning initiatives.
- **Deliver** virtual and on-site assessments.
- **Build your external network**, conduct research and create white papers, and participate in conferences/ marketing events.
- **Coach and mentor consultants** in the Assessment CoE to deliver quality work, identify and embed continuous improvement.

**What we're looking for**:
You will have **significant experience** in either:

- **Consultancy Environment**: Experience with the end-to-end consultancy cycle, including business development, **or**:

- **Internal Talent Role**: Experience in developing and implementing talent solutions and managing internal stakeholders with experience of internal sales.

Please note - you will also need to be **fluent in both German and English**.

You will also have:

- Master’s/PhD degree in organizational psychology (or equivalent).
- Ability to work with BTS account executives and clients in scoping, selling, developing, and deploying assessment solutions.
- Business acumen and executive presence.
- A passion for developing your career in Talent Insights and Assessment and enabling others to do the same.
- Agile and curious mindset.
- Fluency in German and English is essential, but skills in another of our European languages is particularly desirable (French, Swedish or Dutch)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- An ability to communicate effectively in various settings, including large groups of business leaders.

You can expect to travel approximately 10-20% of the time.

**What we can offer you**
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Exposure to developing complex solutions for the world’s leading corporations in a variety of industries
- Exposure to C-Suite executives
- International exposure and travel
- Casual and fun professional atmosphere emphasizing freedom, responsibility, collaboration, excellence, and individual growth
- A fast-paced, fun and engaging learning environment
- Meaningful work that has a discernible impact on our clients
- Career progression and continual growth opportunities