Expert Project Leader/Associate Director, Corporat

at The Boston Consulting Group in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

Practice Area Profile

BCG's Corporate Finance & Strategy Practice (CFS) drives client success by helping CEOs and leaders to win the "next game"-and how maximize value creation while doing it. We transform strategic insights into ambitious agendas for successful transformations. The practice comprises three mutually-supportive businesses-Strategy, Corporate Finance, and Transactions & Integrations.

What You'll Do

Who We Need

Corporate strategy is core to BCG's heritage and DNA and is constantly evolving in response to changing macro dynamics, industry-specific trends, and client needs. We need an Expert Project Leader/Associate Director to help drive a rebuild of our corporate strategy capabilities - first integrating and synthesizing all of the terrific IP that we have developed across the firm in our 61 year history, and then pushing the envelope to develop new conceptual frameworks, analytical approaches, and data & tools to enable the next generation of strategists at BCG. In parallel, we need this expert to also work hand-in-hand with our case teams, assisting them in navigating and deploying our best-in-class strategy capabilities and making sure we are consistently bringing the best of BCG to our clients.

OUR EXPERT CONSULTING TRACK (ECT)

As an Expert Project Leader/Associate Director, you will be integrated into a BCG team and leverage your deep expertise on projects that reshape businesses. You will be given end-to-end responsibility for large and complex "modules" within a BCG project and may lead small but high-impact teams to drive results for our clients. You will work closely with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, and win buy-in for your recommendations, while also collaborating with colleagues on complex client issues. Your expertise will be valued by senior clients and you will help build and contribute to BCG's intellectual capital while spending significant time supporting and executing case work. Expert Project Leaders/Associate Directors contribute significantly to BCG's intellectual capital, generate interest and excitement about their expertise area, and coach and mentor others.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

You will serve as an expert focused on helping clients develop corporate strategies, and helping BCG build the Corporate Strategy topic, juggling a wide variety of activities and roles. Some of these will include:

Client Service (~50-60%): you will serve as an active member of BCG project teams to help bring our best-in-class Corporate Strategy capabilities to our clients, using a variety of tools and approaches. This will be on dedicated Corporate Strategy branded projects, but could also be an important piece of bringing Corporate Strategy frameworks and approaches to a broad variety of projects, including growth, strategic planning, shareholder value, and strategic M&A and due diligence. You will at times be a hands-on project manager staffed 60-100% for specific periods of time (e.g. several weeks to several months), overseeing project teams and ensuring top-notch work. At other times you will engage with BCG teams and clients as an expert advisor with smaller time allocation.

Topic development (~30-40%): you will work closely with the senior team leading the Corporate Strategy topic to grow the business. This means helping develop new publications, IP, tools and approaches, and then ensuring the internal and external promotion of those as well. As we have marketing and project... For full info follow application link.

The Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.