About the Role
BCG's Global Learning & Development organization is undergoing a multi-year transformation to modernize learning design, delivery, and experience. This involves advancing AI-enabled learning, evolving the learning portfolio, and strengthening operational excellence, requiring strong global program management to translate strategy into execution and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Independently lead multiple workstreams from strategy through execution.
- Translate priorities into executable plans, establish governance and delivery approaches.
- Drive alignment across global stakeholders and ensure successful outcomes through proactive management of dependencies, risks, decisions, and milestones.
- Partner closely with L&D colleagues, extended stakeholders, and senior leaders to shape execution, enable decision making, and deliver measurable business impact.
- Lead the development and evolution of the multi-year Global L&D Transformation roadmap.
- Define governance, milestones, success metrics, dependencies, and resource requirements.
- Identify trade-offs and opportunities to maximize business value.
- Drive execution across cross-functional teams by converting strategic objectives into actionable implementation plans.
- Proactively resolve barriers, manage competing priorities, and ensure delivery against agreed outcomes, timelines, and budget.
- Establish and manage program performance frameworks, including KPIs, executive dashboards, and portfolio reporting.
- Analyze program performance to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, providing actionable recommendations.
- Lead change and risk management activities by proactively identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies.
- Drive resolution of issues before they impact delivery.
- Develop compelling business cases, investment proposals, and executive recommendations.
- Craft high-quality executive communications, Steering Committee materials, and leadership presentations.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience independently managing large, cross-functional transformation workstreams.
- Experience translating strategy into execution.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders within complex global organizations.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale programs or transformation initiatives with accountability for planning, governance, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and successful delivery.
- Strong data analysis skills, able to communicate key insights effectively.
- Creativity and openness to new approaches, digital tools, Agile methodologies.
Skills
- Project Management
- Organizing and managing
- Working in a complex environment at pace
- Drawing insights from data
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Structuring and analyzing information
Location
- London
- Lisbon
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- University degree or equivalent, ideally in a business-related subject.
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- BCG is an E - Verify Employer.
