Manager - BCG Vantage, Talent & Skills

Locations: London | München | Düsseldorf

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.

What You'll Do

As a Manager – BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path within BCG's People & Organization Practice (POP), you will collaborate and partner in a growing global team, providing functional expertise and insights. You will work together with case and proposal teams to provide knowledge assets, analysis and expert advisory. You’ll serve as a thought partner and content expert to case teams and topic/sector leaders, helping structure and solve complex issues. Additionally, as a Manager – BCG Vantage you will drive development of intellectual property and knowledge assets to support the Talent & Skills business, serving as an active contributor to commercialization efforts for Talent & Skills topics, whilst working with business leaders to drive proposals & go-to-market efforts. As a Manager – BCG Vantage, you may line manage a team of junior colleagues, taking responsibility for their goal setting, ongoing feedback and career development support.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Solving complex client problems through relevant analytical approaches and customized solutions in strategic people, talent and skill questions
• Driving development and maintenance of knowledge assets e.g. tools, topic materials, based on different client contexts
• Communicating with senior stakeholders, demonstrating the ability to engage your audience effectively
• Managing a portfolio of projects, with strong awareness of business priorities and commercial impact
• Working creatively and analytically in time‑limited, problem‑solving environments, balancing rigor with pragmatism
• Bringing a curious, flexible, and innovative mindset, open to new ideas and able to propose novel solutions
• Training, coaching, and mentoring junior team members
• Working in an ever changing and complex environment, and comfortable with ambiguity and navigating a fast‑paced environment

What You'll Bring

• 3+ years of experience in relevant strategy consulting or HR/talent consulting required; candidates with consulting experience preferred
• In lieu of consulting experience, 4+ years minimum industry experience required; 6‑10+ years of industry experience strongly preferred
• Bachelor's Degree required (advanced degree preferred)
• Deep expertise across the end‑to‑end talent lifecycle, with the ability to deep‑dive into specific areas such as talent management, strategic workforce planning, performance management, or skills assessments
• Strong affinity for People Analytics, including a deep interest and aptitude in data, metrics, analytics, and emerging trends
• Strong ability to manipulate, structure, and analyze complex datasets (coding experience preferred)
• Ability to translate data and analyses into clear, compelling insights that bring reports and findings to life
• Preferred: Fluency in AI and Generative AI, with the ability to stay current on emerging developments and apply them to people and organizational analytics
• Excellent project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously
• Fluency in English; additional fluency in German preferred
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders while working in a global, collaborative team environment

Who You'll Work With

As a Manager – BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path, you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up of a diverse pool of BCG Vantage positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantage careers.

Additional info

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.

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. BCG is an E - Verify Employer.