About the Role
As the BCG Vantage Global Senior Director – AI Cost Advantage, you will lead the BCG Vantage team across functional practice areas supporting the Cost topic by developing and driving the strategy and execution of the portfolio of knowledge assets, services, and professionals. You will be responsible for the BCG Vantage Cost topic and its performance, including economics, customer satisfaction, and team satisfaction KPIs. The role will also coordinate with Project Helix and support the integration of AI into our offers.
Responsibilities
- Develop and drive the strategy and execution of the portfolio of knowledge assets, services, and professionals for the BCG Vantage Cost topic.
- Be responsible and accountable for the BCG Vantage Cost topic and its performance, including economics (case billability, P&L), customer satisfaction, and team satisfaction KPIs.
- Coordinate with Project Helix and support the integration of AI into our offers.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders both within Cost and across Practice Areas.
- Ensure alignment and consistent quality of delivery across the firm.
- Lead coordination across Practice Areas on Cost, ensuring knowledge, tools (including AI agents), and best practices are shared and applied consistently.
- Directly support the deployment of tools and cases, working hands-on with case teams.
- Inspire and motivate the entire team, acting as a line manager and mentor for senior BCG Vantage members.
- Align the BCG Vantage Cost topic and strategy with client needs.
- Encourage the innovation of new and expanded BCG Vantage offerings.
- Team with the senior leadership of the AI Cost Advantage topic, including topic/sector and regional leaders.
- Contribute on a regular basis to global, cross-Practice Area initiatives and programs.
Requirements
- 15+ years of industry experience preferred, and/or 8+ years minimum consulting experience in a reputable organization in a relevant/related sector or topic.
- Demonstrated experience in end-to-end cost transformation efforts, with a holistic view across cost levers and deeper expertise in at least one functional area (e.g., People/Org, Operations, IT/Tech).
- Change management experience preferred.
- Business, line & project management experience.
- Ideally experience in accountability for business metrics in professional services including a P&L.
- International experience strongly preferred.
Skills
- Strategizing with a pioneering, forward-thinking and entrepreneurial approach.
- Quickly grasping and engaging on relevant content to identify hot topics and major trends.
- Balancing authority with gravitas and managing senior stakeholders – both within Cost and across Practice Areas – as well as a large team.
- Understanding the bigger picture with an end-to-end vision in an intellectually rigorous environment.
- Bringing a holistic, end-to-end view of cost take-out efforts, with the ability to go deep in a specific functional domain (e.g., People/Org, Operations, IT/Tech) when needed.
- Leading change management and orchestration of cost portfolio across a complex set of stakeholders.
- Foundational AI knowledge to design and deploy agents, skills and workflows to accelerate impact and delivery.
- Leading and developing a global business and team in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Leading from the front with a strong business focus.
- Being results-oriented with a proven track record of implementation and project management success.
- Showcasing a positive, constructive, team player mentality.
Location
- Chicago
- Boston
- Washington
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Director
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree with demonstrated academic achievement required; Advanced Degree Preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $185k - $216k base salary range for US locations
- Bonus of up to 45%
- Retirement contribution of 10% or more
- Firm Performance Bonus eligibility
Benefits
- Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
- Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
- Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually
- Option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
- Paid Parental Leave
- Family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
- 12 holidays per year
- Annual office closure between Christmas and New Years
- 20 vacation days per year
- Paid sick time on an as needed basis
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.
- 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: Client Focus (Embedded Expertise), Topic Activation (Topic Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions), and Research (Practice Topic and Sector-Aligned Research and Insights).
Equal Opportunity
- 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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