BCG X Global L&D Strategic Programs Senior Manager in London

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

Reporting to the Global L&D Director. As the L&D Strategic Programs Senior Manager you will serve as the strategic connective tissue for BCG X's L&D function; turning ambiguous priorities into clear, executable programs that land with impact for strategic initiatives across BCG X's Learning & Development function. You will drive end-to-end execution of strategic programs including AI Upskilling, events, new leadership asks, pilots, and broader L&D transformation initiatives. You will ensure transformation work no longer competes with business-as-usual operations and instead has dedicated capacity to succeed.

You will thrive in this role if you are energized by ambiguity and building new initiatives from scratch, naturally build alignment across senior leaders through influence and credibility, enjoy rapid context switching between strategic projects, and get satisfaction from ensuring strategic priorities happen.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own strategic transformation initiatives end to end, including AI Upskilling, events, new leadership requests, and pilot programs
• Translate L&D strategic priorities to design actionable plans with clear execution paths and accountability across the L&D team
• Coordinate & drive deliverables across global, regional, and functional teams in a complex matrix environment between BCG X and OneBCG
• Build executive-ready decks and narratives for Operating Committee, Chapter Leads, and Global Learning Council presentations
• Drive change management and internal communications for new L&D initiatives and transformations
• Push innovation into L&D approaches, channels, and tools to keep pace with evolving business needs
• Surface white space, overlaps, and impact opportunities across the team to enable better strategic decisions

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Translating AI and digital priorities into practical learning solutions while managing multiple workstreams with discipline and attention to detail.
• Partnering with senior stakeholders, navigating ambiguity through structured problem solving, and communicating clearly across audiences
• Performing successfully in a fast-paced, global environment
• Demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate with all organizational levels inside and outside BCG through establishing positive, unbiased and productive working relationships
• Showing strong communication skills; able to communicate confidently, articulately; able to influence multiple stakeholders to adopt a new point of view
• Displaying a quick study; a can-do attitude; a creative solution seeker with a readiness to try new approaches; decisive, pragmatic, and reason-minded
• Being an active team player with strong organizational, analytical, and project management skills
• Being autonomous, able to tolerate ambiguity, self-motivated
• Working with high integrity, tact, a positive attitude, and an ability to maintain absolute confidentiality
• Being able to engender trust from senior local, regional and global BCG X leadership as well as more junior resources, and serve as a broker or liaison between the two groups
• Being comfortable in resolving conflict, delivering difficult messages with empathy and addressing all people related issues
• Being comfortable in both working in detail and understanding the big picture; able to consider the ramifications of decisions on various constituencies
• Being able to quickly learn BCG policies, practices, structure, and how decisions are made

What You'll Bring

• Consulting or transformation background with AI native expertise and the ability to inspire change
• Indicatively 8-10+ years' total work experience
• Exceptional at building executive narratives, decks, and structured problem solving
• Experience managing multiple workstreams and influencing senior stakeholders without authority

Additional info

BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG. Turbocharging BCG's deep industry and functional expertise, BCG X brings together advanced tech knowledge and ambitious entrepreneurship to help organizations enable innovation at scale. With nearly 3,000 technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers, and human-centered designers located across 80+ cities, BCG X builds and designs platforms and software to address the world's most important challenges and opportunities. Teaming across our practices, and in close collaboration with our clients, our end-to-end global team unlocks new possibilities. Together we're creating the bold and disruptive products, services, and businesses of tomorrow.

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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