Managing Legal Counsel - Nordics

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

BCG is partnering with our clients to tackle some of the world's biggest and most pressing challenges. Grounded by our values and guided by our purpose, BCGers unlock the potential of those who advance the world. Our Global Legal Team is a key enabler of our firm's success, helping to drive impact and progress across a number of important dimensions. Swedish and/or Norwegian fluency required; other languages are a plus. As a Legal team member, you will work across BCG teams and functions to support our business strategy, provide counsel and expertise, drive legal innovation, and leverage the power of new ways of working.

• Be a fully integrated member of BCG’s Global Legal Team, with a primary focus on commercial matters, commercial risk identification, and internal process improvement, particularly focusing on BCG’s operations in the Nordics.
• Serve as champion of BCG contracting and risk management standards.
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide array of complex commercial agreements, including global master services agreements, client and vendor agreements, licensing, SaaS, data, digital, AI-enabled services, subcontractor and partnership agreements, nondisclosure agreements, technology transactional matters and variable pricing arrangements.
• Implement and help to develop and champion BCG contracting and other policies and processes.
• Provide general counselling and management of a full spectrum of business and legal issues, including particular focus on licensing and intellectual property topics, digital and technology, data protection, competition law and trade regulations, conflicts of interests, and other legal matters.
• Identify legal, commercial, operational and reputational risk early, articulate implications clearly to senior stakeholders, and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
• Act as bridge and point of contact between functions and business for resolving legal issues.
• Contribute to developing and maintaining Legal Team know-how, templates, technology solutions, and other key enablers.
• Managing and directing consulting teams to ensure compliance with privacy laws including General Data Protections Regulations (GDPR) and data security.
• Use AI and technology responsibly to enhance legal delivery.

What Success Looks Like

• Complex commercial contracts are negotiated efficiently with clear risk positioning, strong commercial alignment and appropriate escalation of material issues.
• Senior stakeholders seek out and trust your advice because it is precise, pragmatic, commercially grounded and legally robust.
• Contracting cycle times, consistency and quality improve through scalable templates, playbooks, knowledge tools and responsible AI-enabled workflows.
• You strengthen Legal team capability through coaching, knowledge-sharing, process improvement and adoption of modern legal delivery tools.
• You demonstrate measurable impact on risk mitigation, operational clarity and business enablement across the region.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Superior analytical skills and creative problem-solving ability.
• Talent for absorbing new skill sets and areas of expertise quickly.
• The ability to quickly comprehend complex sets of international laws and regulations.
• A positive, dynamic, client-focused approach to legal practice.
• Superior communication skills.
• Swedish and/or Norwegian language skills.
• Comfortable with technology and systems used in daily work.
• Ability to handle high-pressure situations.

What You'll Bring

• Graduate degree (J.D.) in Law from an accredited law school and admitted to practice.
• 10+ years of commercial contracting experience with international exposure.
• 5+ years with a reputable law firm preferable; prior relevant in-house experience preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; English, Swedish, and Norwegian fluency required.

Additional info

A variety of cohorts and functions across the company, including senior leadership. Members of the BCG Global Legal team, Finance and the Partnership. You will report into the Commercial group within the Legal Team. Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.