Expert Project Leader, Geopolitics & Trade Impact

Locations: Washington | Boston | New York

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

The Global Advantage is one of BCG's core functional practice areas with a unique commercial offering and a long tradition of cutting-edge thought leadership. Being at the crossroads of emerging and mature markets, we work with our clients to unlock unparalleled business opportunities offered by globalization while mastering the challenges of disruption. We help clients not only build sizable international footprints but also maximize their potential in the face of global disruptive forces such as rapidly changing markets, geopolitical environment, rising local competitors as well as shifting customer behavior and preferences. In our daily work, we enable our clients to transform their organization in order to win globally.

What You'll Do

BCG is looking for an Expert Project Leader to successfully meet our clients’ demand for deep expertise, and advanced technical capabilities in Geopolitics. You will be a core member of BCG’s Global Advantage Practice working alongside some of the world’s top minds in the industry. You will also significantly contribute to the development of our Geopolitics & Trade Impact topic and our Centre for Geopolitics.

You will work on some of the most important geopolitics-related projects with a special emphasis on clients based in USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia. As a project leader, you will collaborate on challenging projects with team members from many backgrounds, conducting detailed fact-based analyses and developing strategic solutions in projects. You will also dedicate time to further develop and deepen BCG’s expertise in the topic, and to support BCG Partners in business development initiatives.

In this role you will:

• Take leadership in project execution role, managing teams of BCG consultants and experts, as well as members of BCG’s Vantage (formerly Knowledge) Teams, as required
• Build BCG’s intellectual capital on the topic of geopolitics with a particular focus on the relevant geographies. This activity may involve contributing to BCG’s Centre for Geopolitics, leading internal BCG teams in “Tier-1” research programs, as well as preparing and writing articles for publication. Public Speaking and Media events may also be undertaken, pending relevant approvals from within BCG
• Work with BCG partners and teams in identifying priority geopolitical trends, sectors, and prospective clients.
• Lead and support sales development activities by preparing proposal documents and participating in proposal meetings with clients

Our Expert Consulting Track

The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG’s ability to successfully meet our clients’ demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities. Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges. Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to bring the ‘best of BCG’ to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting.

What You'll Bring

• 7 years of experience (including managerial)
• Professional work experience in a mix of the following:
  • High-caliber consulting - familiarity with practices and techniques of consulting such as project management and content development
  • Private sector - experience with a multi-national private sector firm, in particular in a role related to strategy and/or geopolitcs
  • Public sector - experience with public sector entities at a regional or national level in a foreign policy or geopolitical context
• Expertise in at least one of the following areas:
  • US Policy Expertise (esp. non-tariff measures e.g. Import-Export controls)
  • Geopolitical Risk Assessment & Analysis
  • Geopolitical Scenario Planning & Strategic Planning
  • Geopolitical Business Unit Set-up
• MBA or Master's degree from a top tier institution with a strong academic record
• Excellent track record of project/team leadership and stakeholder management
• Client service orientation, including commercial capabilities
• Intercultural competence and experience working in more than one country or with multi-cultural teams would be a strong plus

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, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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