Analyst - BCG Vantage

Boston Consulting Group • Boston, MA

3d

About The Position

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.

As an Analyst (A) within BCG’s People & Organization Practice (POP) & Tech and Digital Advantage (TDA) areas you will work in a growing global team being involved in several of our fast-growing topics like (Gen)AI and digital transformation, helping to shape our offering, and working directly with case and proposal teams providing expert advisory, analysis, and insights around the critical people levers to make transformation successful.
Additionally, as an A you will serve as a thought partner and context expert to topic leaders in developing existing & new intellectual property and knowledge assets related to (Gen)AI and digital transformation at the intersection of the People & Organization space. You will work on commercialization efforts, in conjunction with business leaders, supporting upskilling, marketing efforts, conferences and publications.
BCG Vantage is a powerhouse of expertise, seamlessly embedded within Practice Areas and markets to drive extraordinary impact. It equips BCG case teams and clients with cutting-edge expertise, proprietary assets, actionable data, and transformative insights that empower our case teams and enable our clients to achieve their aspirations.
With global experts across 20 Practices, covering more than 100 topics, sectors and offers, plus four focused geographic markets, BCG Vantage delivers unparalleled depth and breadth of insight & expertise. BCG Vantage consists of three career paths, each playing a crucial role in delivering value to clients, case teams and practice teams.
Client Focus (Embedded Expertise)
Integrates into client-facing teams to deliver direct client impact through expertise, know-how, and proprietary tools and assets
Topic Activation (Sector Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions)
Combines deep domain insights with our know-how and proprietary assets to address targeted challenges directly with clients and project teams; co-creates insights on industry trends and functional topics, proprietary data and tools, and teams to codify IP that all enables BCG to deliver excellent business value with its clients
Research (Practice Topic and Sector-Aligned Research and Insights)
Delivers actionable research and insights tailored to the client project’s needs; works with qualitative and quantitative data, conducts research and provides synthesized results from sources including commercial data, public and open source, company and industry research, macro-economic, commodities and trade data.

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience in a leading consulting or technology firm, being involved in (Gen)AI driven products, transformational initiatives, or workstreams
• In lieu of consulting experience, 1+ years minimum industry experience required; 1-2+ years of industry experience strongly preferred
• Strong understanding of (Gen)AI market trends, use cases and enabling technology/data/algorithms
• Bachelor's Degree required; advanced degree a plus
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, digital transformation narratives, agentic AI platforms, apps, ecosystems, market trends, use cases and enabling technologies / data / algorithms
• Familiarity with software development projects, particularly those using Agile methodologies, is beneficial to understand the complexity of technological development and adoption.
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) is a plus
• Fluency in English; additional language/s will be a plus
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholder while working in a global collaborative team environment

Nice To Haves

• Programming experience (e.g., Python, SQL) not required but beneficial

Responsibilities

• Solving client and other complex problems with a high capacity for strategic/end-to-end thinking
• Communicating with senior stakeholders, case teams and clients in a credible and confident way
• Codifying and building the latest knowledge and IP (including tools) on the topics to be used in different client contexts.
• Working collaboratively and effectively in a group dynamic often virtual, proficient in agile ways of working
• Flexibility and bringing a curious and creative mindset, open to new things and able to propose innovative ideas
• Working in an ever changing and complex environment, and comfortable with ambiguity and navigating a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
• Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
• Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)
• Paid sick time on an as needed basis

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level