BCG - Boston Consulting Group

Project Leader, Payments

Location:

Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Mountain View/Silicon Valley, Nashville, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C.

Geography:

North America

Capabilities:

Strategy

Industries:

Financial institutions

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

Practice Area Profile

BCG’s Financial Institutions Practice Area (FIPA) aims to be the consultant of choice for leaders in the financial industry. We seek to achieve that goal by helping clients find their way amid the ever-evolving, ever-shifting competitive landscape. By focusing on the fundamental economics of their businesses and the underlying needs of their customers, we help banks, brokerages, asset managers and other financial- services organizations rethink their strategic assumptions, identify winning business propositions, and seize new opportunities in the expanding digital environment.

What You'll Do

As a Project Leader focused in payments, you will be responsible for managing project teams comprised of consultants and associate consultants who design and develop innovative long-term business strategies for client corporations that maximize the return on the investment of shareholders. Project teams at BCG are responsible for advising clients on key strategic business issues, producing leading-edge business models, and addressing specific problems and opportunities.  You will also play a key role in high-level client relationships and act as a content lead for proposals and other business development work.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

  • 3+ years of post-graduate school consulting experience, and/or 2-3+ years of line management experience, particularly within the payments/digital commerce industry.
  • Experience and/or interest in payments/digital commerce.
  • Strong organizational skills and an analytic mindset. Must be able to understand and employ a variety of analytical tools to study markets and market segments, develop frameworks and hypotheses, quantify strategic options, and assess their effectiveness.
  • Expert communication and presentation skills. Project Leaders must synthesize their team’s work into recommendations for presentation to clients and deliver oral and written reports to client management.
  • Intellectual curiosity, coupled with a drive to figure things out, get things done, and have an impact at the organizational level.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

BCG's Payments Practice aims to be the consultant of choice for leaders in payments and digital commerce. We seek to achieve that goal by helping clients find their way amid the ever-evolving, ever-shifting competitive landscape. By focusing on the fundamental economics of their businesses and the underlying needs of their customers, we help financial institutions, payments specialists, retailers, technology companies and investors rethink their strategic assumptions, identify winning business propositions, and seize new opportunities.
YOU’LL BE BASED IN

We will consider candidates for any of our US offices.

YOU’LL BE TRAVELING

Travel is expected and will vary based on project needs.

Candidates should be aware that BCG currently maintains a policy requiring all US & Canada based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. BCG is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.

Date Posted:

23-May-2022

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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