Centre for Growth Qualitative Analyst Senior Manager (9-12 Month FTC) - London

Who We Are

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What You'll Do

As the qualitative analyst senior manager at the Centre for Growth you will play a pivotal role in helping to achieve its aim of sparking conversations, ideas and actions that have the potential for major positive impact on the UK's growth and prosperity. You will have a specific focus on qualitative research and analysis, particularly helping us to drive the research agenda for BCG in London. You will independently lead deep dive research on behalf of the Centre and take a lead in managing the end-to-end delivery of our research outputs.

BCG's Centre for Growth has three key roles:

• Bringing the best of BCG to external audiences, from clients to policymakers, with the aim of driving action to boost economic growth.
• Leading BCG's macroeconomic work in the UK, including supporting CEOs, CFOs and leadership teams to help them understand what the current economic outlook means for them.
• Providing expert and advisory input to client teams on economic topics, ranging from supporting client teams with macroeconomic or policy analysis to providing expert input on the outlook for a particular sector of the economy.

As the qualitative analyst senior manager at the Centre for Growth you will have a direct role in delivering our ambition to:

• Take a leading role in positioning BCG as the recognised leading voice and perspective in the UK market on key topics.
• Play a leadership role as the Centre seeks to drive UK growth and advantage by orchestrating breakthroughs in ideas and action.
• Lead our push to build both external and internal networks and partnerships to aid the impact of the Centre's work.

By directly representing your qualitative research externally and internally raise BCG's profile and brand among C-suite executives and other industry, government, and community leaders. Present to external stakeholders on all aspects of our work. Develop high quality conversations with clients and potential clients on key topics impacting their sectors and the wider market.

In this role you will work in partnership with the Senior Director of the Centre for Growth as they work with a variety of practice areas and global experts to leverage BCG's capabilities to put our firm at the centre of national discussion about issues of critical importance to the future of the UK. This will include:

• Help to drive BCG Centre for Growth agenda & profile.
• Lead the end to end development of up to 4 priority research topics per year.
• Manage teams put in place to drive research on priority topics.
• Own and direct the qualitative analysis and research across all of the Centre's workstreams.
• Take the lead in driving partnerships with different BCG practice area teams.
• Develop new products to showcase the Centre's analysis for both internal and external audiences.

You’re good at:

• In depth qualitative analysis and academic level research.
• Compiling, cleaning and analysing inputs to support and evidence your research.
• Driving and delivering outputs autonomously, but happy to collaborate.
• Networking and collaborating with a willingness to help drive the creation of coalitions.
• Clear communication of complex topics.
• Thinking outside the box and applying different analytical lenses to problems.
• Managing fast paced workstreams and supporting the development of internal BCG secondees into the Centre.

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years experience of working in consulting, the civil service, think tanks, academia or similar roles with a specific qualitative research aspect.
• Expert knowledge of qualitative research methods and a proven track record of developing.
• Experience of navigating economic databases and analysing large datasets.
• Experience of researching and authoring analysis on fast moving topics.
• Ideally experience of working in both the private and public sector.
• Experience managing and directing a small team delivering on tight timelines.

Please note this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change.

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.