BCG - Boston Consulting Group
Project Leader/Principal BCG TURN
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About Us
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm and the world’s leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. Our customized approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets with close collaboration at all levels of the client organization. This ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations, and secure lasting results. Founded in 1963, BCG is a private company with more than 90 offices in 50 countries. For more information, please visit bcg.com
Practice Area Profile
BCG TURN is a special transformation, turnaround and restructuring unit of BCG that works with business leaders to deliver rapid, sustainable and visible performance improvements, while strengthening their organizations and positioning them to win in the years ahead. By collaborating shoulder to shoulder with the client and being a true performance partner, BCG TURN achieves change that lasts. Team members include BCG TURN experts such as former CEOs, C-suite leaders, and other highly experienced professionals. BCG TURN is fully integrated into BCG and fully leverages the breadth of BCG expertise, network, data and tools. For more information about BCG TURN and the BCG TURN approach, please visit bcgturn.bcg.com
Role Profile
- Project planning and process management, and communicating progress to clients and BCG leadership
- Capable of acting as a project oversight for an entire case or at a module level on select topics. Owns project processes, content and day to day client interactions
- Supports multiple case teams, especially those with need for deep and hands-on approach, either as an individual contributor or owner on a BCG TURN topic, or as an advisor to the overall project
- Drives and co-leads development of the content, either directly or by providing guidance to the consulting team (for example, by sharing ideas, frameworks or providing input on research and analysis)
- Managing the client relationship
- Drives the development and improvement of BCG TURN methodology, tools, frameworks
- Develops and contributes to BCG’s intellectual property – works on BCG knowledge content
- Builds awareness of BCG TURN’s capabilities within the firm, representing business at a variety of regional, global forums
- Proactively identifies and cultivates a network of potential clients, and strategies to win new business
- Generates business development leads to grow the pipeline
- Creates awareness of BCG expertise and capabilities to the external community; participates in key industry forums, including presenting on topics relevant to senior management
- Key support for proposal creation and presentation: provides content expertise around specific topics; acts as key topic content lead for proposals or other business development work
- Participates in client proposal presentations and related discussions
- Providing apprenticeship and coaching to junior consultants to help develop their consulting skills, including sharing knowledge and experience, giving frequent feedback and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow
- A minimum of 7 years of experience running large and complex transformations, Performance improvement, operational Turnaround programs in industry or a consulting set–up (preferred)
- Prior experience in top level advisory or consulting firm will be highly valuable
- Unparalleled experience leading turnaround, restructuring and transformation cases, restoring distressed companies to profitability and materially improving operating performance.
- Experience leading cases both in an advisory capacity as well as in interim management roles, TMO/ PMO roles (Chief Transformation Officer or Restructuring Officer ideal, CTO, COO, CFO)
- Foundation in operations and/or finance; must be able to dig into P&L and take conclusions from analysing a balance sheet
- Robust understanding of corporate finance, business plan modeling, working capital management and debt restructuring
- Experience in engaging and driving negotiations across multiple stakeholders
Your Qualifications
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a similar discipline with strong academics from a top-tier institution
- Masters or MBA degree from a top-tier university or business school is highly advantageous
- Analytical and structured
- Advanced quantitative analysis
- Solid business acumen and commercial capabilities
- Problem solving – able to take a creative and an hypothesis driven approach in order to solve complex problems
- Willingness to travel internationally and to work remotely on client sites
- Excellent communication and persuasion skills
- Excellent written and spoken English and Russian language
- Flexible, curious and creative, open for new things and able to propose innovative ideas
- Independent and autonomous judgment
- Team player, open, pleasure to work with and positive in a group dynamic
- Intercultural competence and experience of working in more than one country and/or multi-cultural teams
- Driven, hard-working, entrepreneurial, proactive and productive
- Highest ethical standards
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