US/C 2021 NE PIPE Portfolios PL-Pt

Location:

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

Geography:

North America

Capabilities:

Strategy

Industries:

Private equity and principal investment

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 is supporting the world's largest principal investors & private equity (PIPE) firms with the full spectrum of services covering the entire value chain from transaction services to transformative profit improvement programs for portfolio companies to strategy and operations work for the funds themselves. We are organized into six distinct sectors: Private Equity, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), Pension Funds, Hedge Funds, Family Offices and Infrastructure & Real Estate.

What You'll Do

We are looking for Project Leader and Principal consultants to help our private equity clients address their most difficult challenges using strategies that maximize growth, optimize operating cost structure, transform business models and create sustainable competitive advantage. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working with private equity and portfolio companies and in strategy and operations consulting.

Project Leaders play a key role on client engagements, managing studies to define client needs and supervising research activities to obtain relevant data. They apply knowledge of business principles and industrial organization, develop actionable recommendations, and supervise work including strategic due diligence, product development studies, change management plans, and the evaluation of long-term investment opportunities.

As the senior person most frequently at the client site, Principals interact with the client lead on a day-to-day basis to ensure that expectations are aligned. Principals provide the project management oversight required to meet client expectations

Projects vary based on client needs, but the importance of seeing possibilities where other people find limits will be a constant. Project Leaders and Principals go deep to unlock insight, challenge established thinking, drive transformation, improve performance, and deliver bottom-line impact.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

5+ years of post-graduate school consulting experience working with private equity firms and portfolio companies
3+ years of line management experience
Hands on assessment and implementation experience in several of the following areas:

Procurement & Supply Chain
Manufacturing & Assembly
Acquisitions/Carve-outs
Sales & Retail Distribution
Inventory Optimization
Portfolio Product Maximization
Make vs. Buy Analysis
Organizational structure & effectiveness
Process Improvement
Working capital and cash management

Depth in a particular industry vertical is a plus (e.g. industrial goods, business services, distribution, consumer products, retail, etc..)
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. Ability to 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

Date Posted:

19-Feb-2021

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Principal, Private Equity Portfolio Operations

Who We Are

Practice Area Profile

What You'll Do

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)