Analyst - BCG Vantage, Principal Investors and Private Equity

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Who We Are

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

As an Analyst – BCG Vantage in a Client Focus role within BCG's Principal Investors and Private Equity (PIPE), you will work in a growing global team, delivering value to clients via individual expertise and/or institutionalized BCG Vantage assets (products, tools, data, workshops, frameworks, surveys, domain-specific data, and related expertise). You will contribute on cases and proposals by providing relevant analysis and insights and help case teams create strong impact for the client. While contributing to client cases, workshops, and proposals, occasional travel to serve clients onsite during staffing assignments is expected to understand client requirements and design/develop solutions.

You will support commercialization efforts for the topic/sector working, in conjunction with business leaders, through contributing analysis and insights to proposals, client workshops, and marketing materials. You will also support business development and go-to-market efforts of the Principal Investors and Private Equity business, as opportunities arise, contributing research and analysis to marketing efforts.

BCG’s PIPE Practice Area works with the world’s largest investment firms, serving six client asset classes: Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Infrastructure & Real Estate Funds, Family Offices, Sovereign Wealth Funds, and Pension Plans. Likewise, PIPE topics cut across not only these asset classes but also across industries (e.g., Health Care, Consumer, Technology) and sub-topics (e.g., Tech Capital, Private Credit, Environmental, Social and Governance).

YOU ARE GOOD AT

• Helping to solve client problems through formulating relevant research and/or analytical approaches in PIPE.
• Communicating with case teams and clients team members in a credible and confident way.
• Working collaboratively and effectively in a group dynamic often virtual, proficient in agile ways of working.
• Being flexible and bringing a curious and creative mindset, open to new things and able to propose innovative ideas.
• Navigating complexity and ambiguity.

What You'll Bring

• Master's degree relevant to PIPE; 1+ year of relevant work experience in PIPE preferred.
• Or Bachelor's degree, with a strict minimum of 1+ year consulting experience or 2+ years of relevant industry work experience in PIPE.
• Fluency in English.
• Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Who You'll Work With

As an Analyst – BCG Vantage, you will work face to face with clients and with BCG Project Leaders, Associates, and Consultants. In the period between cases, 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.

Additional info

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 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.

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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