Project Leader or Associate Director, Corporate

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Practice Area

The Corporate Finance & Strategy Practice (CFS) combines rich expertise in corporate strategy concepts with a management methodology designed to create sustainable value-add for BCG clients. Our team provides extensive experience in planning and implementing corporate transactions including merger & acquisition deals and divestitures. We deliver analytic approaches that allow senior management to effectively deal with challenges such as generating growth, managing a portfolio of assets, forming a world-class finance organization, understanding risk, and responding to the way capital markets assess companies today. Taking swift action in turning around and restructuring a business for long-term survival is also part of our offering.

What You'll Do

Corporate strategy is core to BCG's heritage and DNA and is constantly evolving in response to changing macro dynamics, industry-specific trends, and client needs. We need an Expert Project Leader/Associate Director to help drive a rebuild of our corporate strategy capabilities – first integrating and synthesizing all of the terrific IP that we have developed across the firm in our 61 year history, and then pushing the envelope to develop new conceptual frameworks, analytical approaches, and data & tools to enable the next generation of strategists at BCG. In parallel, we need this expert to also work hand-in-hand with our case teams, assisting them in navigating and deploying our best-in-class strategy capabilities and making sure we are consistently bringing the best of BCG to our clients.

What You'll Bring

You will serve as an expert focused on helping clients develop corporate strategies, and helping BCG build the Corporate Strategy topic, juggling a wide variety of activities and roles. Some of these will include:

Client Service (50-60%): you will serve as an active member of BCG project teams to help bring our best-in-class Corporate Strategy capabilities to our clients, using a variety of tools and approaches. This will be on dedicated Corporate Strategy branded projects, but could also be an important piece of bringing Corporate Strategy frameworks and approaches to a broad variety of projects, including growth, strategic planning, shareholder value, and strategic M&A and due diligence. You will at times be a hands-on project manager staffed 60-100% for specific periods of time (e.g. several weeks to several months), overseeing project teams and ensuring top-notch work. At other times you will engage with BCG teams and clients as an expert advisor with smaller time allocation.

Topic development (30-40%): you will work closely with the senior team leading the Corporate Strategy topic to grow the business. This means helping develop new publications, IP, tools and approaches, and then ensuring the internal and external promotion of those as well. As we have marketing and project successes, you will help the topic grow by sharing and building upon them, developing and giving presentations, raising awareness and ensuring Corporate Strategy remains a priority within BCG and in the corporate and public-sector world. You will work closely with our knowledge team as well, helping oversee them as they curate our casework and IP.

Business development (10%): you will support business development, bringing Corporate Strategy to a wide variety of settings and supporting proposal work. You could focus on specific types and/or sectors where you have experience. We seek entrepreneurs with an interest in growing the business.

In addition, we are looking for candidates with:

• Five years or more of work experience in strategy, and the ability to leverage expertise to develop new proprietary IP
• Prior experience leading corporate strategy work, ie enterprise strategy, M&A strategy, TSR strategy, portfolio strategy, etc
• Fluency / familiarity with corporate finance (accounting, valuation, financial policies, etc)

In this role you will be a part of our Expert Consulting Team that works with Corporate Finance & Strategy cadre members across North America and will report to the Corporate & Portfolio Strategy Global Topic Leader.

As an Expert Project Leader/Associate Director, you will be integrated into a BCG team and leverage your deep expertise on projects that reshape businesses. You will be given end-to-end responsibility for large and complex "modules" within a BCG project and may lead small but high-impact teams to drive results for our clients. You will work closely with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, and win buy-in for your recommendations, while also collaborating with colleagues on complex client issues. Your expertise will be valued by senior clients and you will help build and contribute to BCG's intellectual capital while spending significant time supporting and executing case work. Expert Project Leaders/Associate Directors contribute significantly to BCG's intellectual capital, generate interest and excitement about their expertise area, and coach and mentor others.

Additional info

Chicago is the preferred location but the team is flexible to any US city where BCG currently has an office.

You'll be traveling:
Moderate travel is anticipated and will vary based on specific project locations.

For U.S. applicants:
Boston Consulting Group ("BCG") is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The first year base compensation for this role is:
Project Leader: $225,000 USD
Associate Director: $252,900 USD

In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG's Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.

At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees – and their eligible family members.* That's zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:
- Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
- Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not
- Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
- *Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.

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