Transformation Senior Manager - BCG Vantage - London

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.

BCG Vantage is a key pillar across BCG's roughly twenty global Industry and Functional Practice businesses. Vantage is a billable, expertise-based, professional services organization. Vantage plays diverse roles ranging from being staffed in client case teams alongside consulting and other professional services staff to developing and managing IP specific to functional topic or industry sector-based businesses. BCG Vantage includes a global cross-PA team focused on transformation as well as running the global Vantage business.

As Transformation Senior Manager within this group, you will play a key role in helping advance the Vantage strategic agenda and support the ongoing transformation in development and execution of strategic and tactical initiatives. You will manage longer term strategic projects to drive business impact, advance cross-Practice priorities, and enhance cross-Practice best practice sharing. You will proactively identify improvement areas and lead efforts in collaboration with the Vantage Leadership, and other business stakeholders, to drive initiatives. As examples of the types of initiatives you may work on: embedment of GenAI ways of working into Vantage teams, driving a consistent and improved Customer Journey for CT in working with Vantage and scale-up of Client Focus cohort through running pilots. This is a new role and, as such, the candidate will shape the position within the given parameters and be working with Vantage leadership to determine what initiatives you will actually lead.

To be successful in this role, you will combine your entrepreneurial, independent nature and leadership skills with your ability to operate in a highly collaborative fashion to drive clear impact. You will lead and manage initiatives as well as be a thought partner to senior leaders. You will team with people with diverse capabilities within a complex, highly matrixed environment that include Vantage business leaders, recruiting, staffing, talent management, career development, learning & development, product development, as well as business analysis, finance, and planning.

Among your responsibilities, you will:

• Drive strategic initiatives and special projects for Vantage, providing strong conceptual leadership on both design and implementation of solutions
• Work together with leadership to prioritize and drive initiatives, ensure proper resource planning, and regularly review project portfolio
• Manage inter-dependencies between project stakeholders and PA teams; facilitate information flow via all stakeholders
• Facilitate the exchange of best practices at a cross-PA and global level
• Manage project teams, as appropriate, including but not limited to M&O analysts, outside contractors, and Practice Area project team members
• Monitor progress of ongoing projects and initiatives, review output and provide summarized view of progress, milestones and issues
• Act in direct support of, and as a sparring partner for Vantage Leaders and Directors

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Self-starter/ motivator - Good at owning, structuring, and driving multiple parallel project assignments that routinely require independent judgement, trade-offs or prioritization
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to work well with senior BCG leaders and peers with various backgrounds; a non-hierarchical approach with strong influencing and collaboration capabilities
• Successfully operating in a highly dynamic and matrixed environment with concurrent & competing priorities
• Exceptional project management skills - exhibit strong follow-through and accountability, high attention to detail
• Reliable and able to work well under pressure and in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity with ease
• Ability and desire to lead a small team to deliver excellent work, help team members develop in their careers, and create an environment in which team members can be their best

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of relevant experience, ideally including experience as a billable, expertise-based professional services individual
• Significant experience working with senior teams preferably in a dynamic project-based work environment
• A basic understanding of the agenda of the Practices and a sense for the development of the Practices business
• Ability to lead more complex, broader sub functional teams or projects fully independently and provide direction to others
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) at all levels; strong influencing capabilities
• Masters degree preferred
• Experience directly managing people is a plus

You will work with Vantage Leadership Team and senior business stakeholders in practices and geographic businesses to set the strategic agenda for the business, and to drive end-to-end transformation projects to successful delivery. You will also collaborate with other talent including HR, Coordinators, Consultants, etc. who represent varied other global and regional BCG functions.

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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