Career Development Coordinator

Location Boston, New York

Job Description

L.E.K. Consulting is a premier global strategy consulting firm that partners with clients to solve their most critical business challenges and deliver high-impact outcomes. We bring deep industry expertise and rigorous, evidence-based insight to global corporations, growth companies and private equity investors, helping them turn strategy into action.

How do we deliver impact? It's the people. We hire exceptional individuals and invest in their growth through hands-on client work, close collaboration and a culture of ownership, inclusion and continuous learning. Across every level, curiosity unites us and challenge excites us.

Founded more than 40 years ago, L.E.K. employs more than 2,200 professionals worldwide and is consistently recognized as one of the industry's best firms to work for. For more information, visit

L.E.K. Consulting is seeking a detail-oriented and highly organized Career Development Coordinator (Contract) to join our Career Development team. The Career Development Coordinator plays a central role in supporting the firm's Career Development activities for Associates, Consultants, Managers, and Principals. This role is responsible for the day-to-day administration of case reviews, upward feedback (UF), the Career Development Coach (CDC) assignments, Summary Reviews, and related Workday operational activities.

The role requires strong organizational skills, high attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent processes and stakeholders across the Consulting Team, People Team, Executive Assistants (EAs), Finance, etc.

This is a three- four month contract position with the potential for extension based on business needs and individual performance.

• Maintain master sheet tracking on a weekly basis to identify project-based allocations, relevant end dates
• Manually initiate Case Reviews for non-MD level Consulting Team and prepare corresponding list of Upward Feedback (UF) to coordinate with Shared Services.
• Manually initiate Mini Case Reviews and UF forms for Managers

• Coordinate the CDC program end-to-end, including:
• Maintaining the Coaching & Mentorship master sheet
• Identifying and assigning new CDCs for newly promoted Consultants and Managers, as needed
• Assigning CDCs for incoming SWAPs
• Managing CDC change requests from the consulting team, updating the master sheet, and coordinating with People Operations Manager to update Workday
• Assign Career Development Coaches for New Hire Orientation (NHO) participants and send pairing emails to new hires, their Career Development Coach

• Monitor employee separations and coordinate related Career Development activities, including:
• Proactively contacting Consulting Team members who are leaving the firm to request completion and delivery of outstanding Case Reviews
• Identifying and assigning replacement Career Development Coaches for coachees when a Manager or Managing Director leaves the firm
• Cancelling outstanding Case Reviews for employees who have left the firm; reallocating case reviews when Reviewers leave the firm

• Anonymize and prepare Upward Feedback (UF) reports for Managing Directors
• Support the Summary Review process, including:
• Chasing reviewers to ensure Case Reviews are completed before Summary Review discussions
• Collecting informal feedback and initiating Short-Form Reviews when required
• Gathering feedback and performance ratings for TAPP and internal roles
• Coordinating Summary Review delivery meetings with EAs
• Informing reviewers when reviewees are on leave and Summary Review delivery needs to be postponed
• Notifying the Finance team of delayed Summary Review deliveries
• Coordinating promotion announcements with the Brazil team
• Creating the promotion announcement poster
• Sending compensation plans to newly promoted Managers

• Manage the Career Development inbox to respond to day-to-day Career Development inquiries and requests from the consulting team
• Coordinate Workday administrative activities, including:
• Manually initiating Case Reviews for employees below the review threshold, following Manager approval
• Reassigning reviewers and approvers
• Reopening Upward Feedback (UF) forms
• Supporting additional Workday-related Career Development requests as needed

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Prior…