BCG X Portfolio Strategy & PA Commercial Activation Manager

Overview

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

We are seeking a strong candidate with experience and passion to join BCG X as Portfolio Strategy & PA Commercial Activation Manager located in London. The BCG X Portfolio Strategy & Practice Area Commercial Activation team plays a critical role in shaping a differentiated portfolio of digital & AI offerings and driving X business in strong partnership with all BCG Practice Areas to help accelerate BCG's commercial agenda. Your objective will be to lead activities/projects that will accelerate business growth across a subset of our BCG Industry and Functional Practice Areas, and to focus our investments on the most critical digital & AI solutions that we develop, build, and sell to clients. The role requires strong analytical ownership, including independently structuring analyses, slicing and interpreting large and complex data sets, deriving clear insights, and translating them into actionable recommendations and a compelling “so what” for senior leadership. You will combine strategic analysis with hands-on execution to translate portfolio priorities into measurable commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities include the following for a subset of IPAs and/or FPAs:

• Provide support to Portfolio Strategy & PA Commercial Activation Director in driving PA Activation for specific PA's including Technology & Digital Advantage (TDA); this will entail helping to shape the right portfolio of digital & AI offers and unlocking Go-to-Market across sectors/functional topics/regions, supporting leadership meetings, preparing business reporting, running ad-hoc analysis, and providing programmatic support to drive PA Activation priorities.
• Provide support to Portfolio Strategy & PA Commercial Activation Director across all areas of Product/Portfolio Governance and Management including content development for LT and Committees such as Product Investment Committee, tracking action items and progress against these, project management of improved processes as needed.
• Collaborate with PA Activation team and Finance to analyse and report on our Commercial portfolio performance, including assessments of ring-fenced teams, profitability of offers and business context driving portfolio performance.
• Shape portfolio strategy, support investment prioritization decisions, and drive focus on the offerings with the highest strategic and commercial impact, grounded in rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis and fact-based insights.
• Independently drive deep-dive analyses across portfolio, commercial, and performance topics by structuring ambiguous problems, slicing and dicing large data sets, synthesizing insights, and clearly articulating implications and recommendations for decision-making.
• Partner directly with the Gen AI team to develop and implement strategies for enabling and activating offers across PA's that support X acceleration of Gen AI offers, including being embedded into Gen AI go to market team.
• Empower PA Activation team with content, education and support on offer excellence and how to drive engagement with PA's and X PA Nodes to support commercial offer development that will drive X revenue.
• Collaborate with Go-to-Market team to support the right client narratives and marketing materials across the portfolio.
• Own selected portfolio and commercial activation initiatives end-to-end and act as a thought partner to BCG X and Practice Area leadership on strategic and commercial priorities.

This role offers the opportunity to work on core strategic topics for both BCG & BCG X to support continued growth of the firm:

• Significant collaboration across Finance, PA Activation, TDA and Gen AI teams and stakeholders.
• Work in a highly global and matrixed organization, collaborating across regions, industries, functions, and BCG X teams.
• Active management of X PA specific offer portfolio tackling a variety of challenges for clients.
• Opportunity to operate at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and commercial decision-making, with significant ownership over insight generation that shapes senior leadership decisions.
• Opportunity to consistently introduce new approaches and process improvements with impact across BCG X.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Proactive, highly organized and pragmatic.
• Proven ability to manage high-level committees and drive task completion.
• Strategic planning and execution with a focus on product enablement and market activation.
• Strong communication skills for articulating complex strategies and fostering internal and external engagement with stakeholders.
• Strong content and narrative development skills.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree or equivalent in business, finance, or related field.
• 3-5+ years of work experience in strategy consulting for a top tier firm, ideally as an Associate/Senior Associate/Consultant or as Knowledge Team Managers or topic/offer Managers at BCG (or equivalent).
• Ability to work effectively in a global environment with people at all organizational levels.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication, networking, and teaming skills, with ability to manage and influence a variety of senior stakeholders.
• Proactive, highly organized and pragmatic – must be able to smartly manage competing priorities and multiple workstreams on a consistent basis.
• Strong PowerPoint, Excel, and presentations skills.
• Strong analytical skillset with the ability to work independently with large data sets, build robust analyses, and draw insight-driven conclusions in ambiguous environments.
• Good to have interest in technology, digital, data science, product management topics.
• Knowledge of BCG industry/functional Practice Areas and/or software/data products helpful.

Who You’ll Work With

You will work with BCG X Global Leadership Team, BCG X & BCG Industry & Functional Practice Area leads, BCG X & Practice Area Product/Offering leaders, BCG X Finance (Product and Commercial) as well as other BCG X & BCG functional teams (Marketing, Business Management & Staffing, IP/legal, etc.).

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.