Business Analytics and Optimization Manager

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What You'll Do

As a member of the North America (NAMR) People Analytics (NPA) team, you’ll be at the heart of NAMR’s People Team efforts, acting as a translator and enabler for our clients (Senior Leadership and teams under the NAMR CHRO). You will be responsible for supporting the success and adoption of transformational analytics solutions and delivering high quality quantitative reporting, utilizing tools like Python and Tableau to help transform and automate People Team reporting and processes.

Your work will directly impact BCG’s high visibility People initiatives, advancing key business priorities for NAMR. Within this role you will manage a variety of workstreams requiring the ability to juggle competing priorities, while managing stakeholder expectations. Successful candidates will be able to work independently and serve as subject matter experts to NAMR Senior Leadership. You will jump in across a wide variety of projects or efforts – sometimes as a designer, and often as the “doer” to get efforts underway, pilot or prove a concept, or run a PMO.

Your Responsibilities Include

• Meeting regularly with People Team members to understand their business priorities and needs, translate them into actionable analytics questions, and frame hypotheses to guide analysis.
• Conducting timely and accurate cadenced reporting and ad-hoc quantitative and qualitative analyses for Senior Leadership. Driving process improvement, optimization, and automation in close partnership with functional leaders to enhance systems and capabilities including a diverse toolkit (e.g., SQL, Python, Tableau, Microsoft Fabric Platform, Excel)
• Provide technical expertise to simplify and streamline processes, enabling stakeholders to eliminate manual work and focus on higher value projects
• Owning large-scale analytics product development, including needs & hypothesis refinement, Agile product development, communication, change management, and implementation
• Developing compelling data visualizations for stakeholders and Senior Leaders, ranging from slide writing to dynamic Tableau dashboards
  
  

The responsibilities of the role will evolve over time as BCG’s data requirements grow and evolve

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• You excel at problem solving, equally comfortable with back-of-the-envelope estimates and detailed analysis. Ingenuity and creativity are key for success in this role.
• You’re highly organized with the ability to scope and plan project timelines, identifying milestones, blockers, and key stakeholders. You’re adept at using digital tools (Jira, GitHub, Confluence) to plan and document your work.
• You can juggle multiple competing priorities, including prioritizing your own work activities and seeking input where required.
• You take ownership of ensuring key processes, decisions, and learnings are well-documented to support knowledge transfer, team enablement, and ongoing delivery.
• You’re an excellent data storyteller, able to parse through the noise to get to the “So What” for our stakeholders.
• You build strong, trusting relationships. You’re empathetic, consider stakeholder’s perspectives, and can team effectively across functions and levels.
• You’re comfortable brainstorming and working jointly as a team, but you can also own your work and drive activities independently. You seek feedback and development and take ownership for mistakes. You’re flexible, adaptable, and eager to learn new skills and content.
  
  

What You'll Bring

• A Bachelor’s degree
• 5 years of progressive experience in an analytical role
• Fluency in all aspects of data management, including data collection, aggregation, manipulation, analysis, visualization, and documentation.
• Experience working across various systems and data sources (including Workday, Snowflake, SAP, etc.)
• Working proficiency in analytics tools, including Python, SQl, Tableau, and cloud data warehouses (Snowflake);, and ideally have some form of experience with Microsoft Analytics (e.g., Fabric, Power Query, PowerBI, Excel)
• Demonstrated project management skills such as the ability to independently manage capacity, handle multiple workflows at the same time, and communicate progress to team leaders and stakeholders.
• Ability to succinctly explain complicated data processes and analysis to both stakeholders and Senior Leaders
• A client focused mentality and demonstrated cross functional teaming.
• Commitment to privacy requirements and concerns around people data, and dedication to documentation best practices
  
  

Who You'll Work With

You’ll work on the Business Analytics & Enablement Cadre within the NPA Team, which also includes a Data Science/Engineering Cadre. Cadres will combine deep industry expertise with innovative skillsets in consulting, business analytics, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, and machine learning. We will drive transformational impact to the NAMR People Team by framing business challenges, building a single source of truth, distilling the highest impact analytics opportunities, designing innovative analyses and algorithms, training colleagues on new solutions, and delivering impact by ensuring our work is valuable, user-oriented, equitable, scalable, and maintainable.

You’ll also work closely with broader functions within NAMR (e.g. Finance), and analytics colleagues in other regions. You will have significant exposure to and help drive impact on behalf of the North America Leadership Team (NALT) and the CHRO.

Additional info

Format

At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person work is essential to our culture, mentorship, and professional development. That's why we operate on a hybrid model, with the expectation that team members will be in the office 3 to 5 days per week. This role is designed for those who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment and is not intended for remote or virtual work.

Compensation Information

Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, contributions to BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF), and a market leading benefits package described below.

Some Local Governments In The United States Require Job Postings To Include a Reasonable Estimate Of Base Compensation. We Expect Your Total Annualized Compensation To Be Approximately The Following

• In New York City the base salary is between $124,000 - $151,300 (USD); placement within this range will vary based on experience and skill level
• In San Diego the base salary is between $120,000 - $146,000 (USD); placement within this range will vary based on experience and skill level
• In other locations, competitive pay is commensurate with the role and geography
• Annual discretionary performance bonus between 0-16%
• 5% Profit Sharing Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution, increasing to 10% after two years of service. Contributions are vested immediately and there is no waiting period
  
  

All Of Our Plans Provide Best In Class Coverage

• 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
• Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
  
  

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