Manager - BCG Vantage- People & AI Insights & Innovation in Waltham Abbey

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As a Manager – BCG Vantage on the Topic Activation path within BCG’s People & Organization (POP) Practice Area, you will join POPX (People & AI Insights & Innovation), a global team focused on advancing people and organizational analytics through AI, advanced analytics, and innovation. You will collaborate closely with POPX colleagues and POP leadership to provide functional expertise and insights, and to build scalable analytical capabilities that support BCG’s people and organization agenda.

In this role, you will work with BCG case and proposal teams to deliver knowledge assets, analytics, and expert advisory, serving as a thought partner and content expert to case teams and topic and sector leaders in structuring and solving complex client issues. You will also play a central role in developing intellectual property and knowledge assets, supporting commercialization, proposals, and go-to-market efforts for POPX offerings.

The mission of POPX (People & AI Insights & Innovation) is to accelerate innovation in people and organizational analytics by building a strong ecosystem of partnerships with leading People Analytics providers and by co-developing new capabilities and offerings with BCG’s advanced analytics and innovation teams, including BCG X. As part of POPX, you will work with a global team to manage strategic partner relationships, incubate and scale analytical offerings, and deliver high-impact insights to BCG clients across industries.

As a Manager – BCG Vantage, you will also line manage junior colleagues, with responsibility for goal setting, ongoing feedback, and career development support. BCG’s People & Organization Practice (POP) is a premier consulting organization offering advisory and transformation services with a clear focus on business value creation through people and organization. POP expertise spans Organization Design and Agile, Talent and Skills, and Culture and Change Management, and serves senior business and functional executives through a strategic, fact-based, and impact-oriented approach supported by deep expertise and advanced analytics.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Applying topic and sector expertise to solve complex client problems through relevant analytical approaches and customized solutions, tailored to different client contexts
• Driving the development, maintenance, and scaling of knowledge assets, including products, tools, data, analytics, and topic or sector materials
• Framing, structuring, and developing intellectual property, with the ability to write clearly and concisely for senior audiences
• Communicating with senior stakeholders in a credible, proactive manner, with the ability to engage and influence effectively
• Managing a portfolio of projects, with a strong awareness of business priorities, delivery timelines, 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, contributing to team capability building and development
• Working in an ever changing and complex environment, and comfortable with ambiguity and navigating a fast-paced environment

What You'll Bring

• 3+ years consulting 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)
• Expertise in business, people, and organizational analytics, with experience using SQL and Python
• Hands-on experience with ETL tools and data pipelines to extract, transform, and integrate data from multiple internal and external sources
• Strong ability to manipulate, structure, and analyze complex datasets (e.g., multi-table, unstructured, or large-scale people data)
• Comfort working in coding and analytics environments (e.g., VS Code, DBeaver) for data exploration, transformation, and analysis
• Ability to translate data and analysis into clear, compelling insights that bring reports and findings to life
• Ability to balance multiple workstreams, work independently, and manage competing priorities
• Excellent project management skills, including managing multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously
• Deep interest and aptitude in data, metrics, analytics, and emerging trends
• Preferred: Fluency in AI and Generative AI, with the ability to stay current on emerging developments and apply them to people and organizational analytics
• Fluency in English
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders while working in a global collaborative team environment

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.

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.

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