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.

Digital BCG

Digital work represents more than one-third of all of BCG’s business, and is a key growth engine for clients seeking to achieve competitive advantage and improve their performance. Digital is no longer a topic just for CIOs, but a top priority for the CEOs we serve across all industries.

DigitalBCG leverages an extensive network of digital strategy consultants, digital specialists (e.g., engineers, designers, and data scientists), and strategic partners to deliver value end-to-end, from strategy to design, development, and deployment. No two digital transformations are alike, but at DigitalBCG we welcome the challenge. We have a passion for problem-solving, and are energized by the opportunity to harness the power of data and leading-edge technology to unlock the potential of organizations and move their business forward.

Practice Area Profile

As a DigitalBCG Project Leader, focused in Financial Services and Institutions you will partner with leading companies to shift mindsets, shape agendas, and create value through digital transformation programs. The work you do every day—going deep to uncover key insights and reimagine business models—will enable our clients to compete in today’s fast-paced environment and accelerate into the digital future. As you immerse yourself in new challenges across a range of Digital topics, you will develop close relationships with senior clients and BCG leadership, and play a central role in work that has a lasting impact on companies, industries, and society.

What You'll Do

DigitalBCG is building the future of business today. Right now, every company in every industry is on a journey to become a digital organization. Our goal is to make that journey a success.

As a DigitalBCG Project Leader, focused in Financial Services and Institutions you will partner with leading companies to shift mindsets, shape agendas, and create value through digital transformation programs. The work you do every day—going deep to uncover key insights and reimagine business models—will enable our clients to compete in today’s fast-paced environment and accelerate into the digital future. As you immerse yourself in new challenges across a range of Digital topics, you will develop close relationships with senior clients and BCG leadership, and play a central role in work that has a lasting impact on companies, industries, and society.
As a Digital Strategy Project Leader, you will lead a team of BCG consultants and digital specialists advising clients from various financial institutions on a range of topics that align to your areas of expertise and interests, including, but not limited to advising clients primarily on topics related to Transformations of Technology Functions and Technology Builds. Other areas of DigitalBCG’s focus that may be part of your work include digital transformation & strategy, big data & analytics, new ways of working, and digital marketing.

Examples of work in this space could include redesigning technology functions to improve flexibility, efficiency, and business-IT alignment, deep in IT function, agile ways of working, IT function expertise, DDP

As a Digital Strategy Project Leader, you can expect to spend approximately 75% of your time working on digital topics, and the other time working on a broad set of critical, unique challenges presented by our clients. Project Leaders work at the forefront of client engagements, serving as a key driver of client value. At BCG, we set our standard for value creation high, challenging ourselves to deliver tangible and positive change, not simply presentations or ideas. Our work must provide next-level insights, change the mindset of our clients, and lead directly to clients taking action and executing their business in new ways.

In addition to managing the holistic program for clients, you will also coach and inspire your team to develop their consulting and digital skills, creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow. Working alongside BCG and client project leaders, you will contribute expertise, synthesize recommendations, challenge work in progress, and re-orient analyses as necessary. Finally, you will contribute to BCG’s intellectual capital in the digital space, defining industry leading thinking, contributing to both functional and industry practice area development and helping build BCG’s brand as a digital leader.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

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  A minimum of 3-4+ years of work experience within digital fields, including product management, digital marketing & analytics, and/or designing & delivering world-class software products, in leading digital companies and/or start-ups.
• Ideally 2-3 years of experience in a consulting environment, driving large-scale transformations, with a history of excellent client service. Core consulting skills are critically important in this role:
  • Strong analytic skills and a high capacity for conceptual thinking.
  • Ability to develop leading-edge business models, frameworks for analysis, and long-term business strategies that maximize shareholder value
  • Must be able to thrive in a hypothesis-based environment where inductive rather than deductive reasoning is the norm.
• Experience working with clients on digital strategy within the financial services and financial institution sector.
• History of building credibility and relationships with leaders, technical and non-technical people to align on strategy, inspire stakeholders, and execute on a day-to-day basis. The ability to work with and lead multi-disciplinary teams including engineers, architects, data scientists—or whatever is required to solve the client’s challenge—will be vital to success
• Proven experience managing the end-to-end product lifecycle, determining the product vision and roadmap, delivering strong customer experiences, and managing stakeholder interactions.
• Advanced quantitative analysis, solid business acumen and problem solving ability. High capacity for strategic/end-to-end thinking.
• Excellent communication and persuasion skills.
• Strong academics from a MS or MBA preferred
• Demonstrated ability to manage client engagements, client relationships, and provide “thought leadership” to teams, fully owning the responsibility for the quality of engagements.
• A solid track record of building strong client relationships with large organizations, as well as identifying opportunities to deepen those relationships and grow the business.

Who You'll Work With

The companies that are winning the digital future are those that embrace digital diversity: diverse perspectives, diverse skills, and diverse capabilities. BCG’s digital teams reflect this diversity, combining digital-savvy business consultants and industry experts with a full spectrum of digital specialists.

As you collaborate with BCG Associates, Consultants, and Principals, you will increase your understanding of complex business problems from a wide range of perspectives and develop new skills. At the same time, you’ll partner with senior clients, taking on the role of trusted advisor, and work at all levels of the client organization to find and execute value creation strategies that result in game changing outcomes for our clients.

Significant travel is anticipated, and will vary based on specific project locations.

We are currently hiring for all our North American offices locations.

Candidates should be aware that BCG currently maintains a policy requiring all US & Canada based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. BCG is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.