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About the Role

The Global AI Strategy & Portfolio Senior Manager drives the growth of BCG X's AI and Tech business within specific industries and functions. This role collaborates with senior leaders to advance commercial priorities in AI & digital, focusing investments on critical client-facing offerings. It requires strong stakeholder management, an entrepreneurial mindset, and analytical skills to provide recommendations in the rapidly evolving AI, business, and tech landscape.

Responsibilities

Drive the definition of priorities and activation plans for AI business in practice areas.
Shape the portfolio of digital & AI offers with senior leaders.
Activate Go-to-Market (GTM) activities across sectors, functions, and regions.
Manage the ongoing cadence with the AI leadership team.
Facilitate partnerships between BCG X and BCG Industry/Functional Leaders.
Champion the shift toward agentic offers.
Program manage the execution of AI priorities and standardize processes.
Strengthen people affiliation and community engagement.
Support investment prioritization decisions for AI & Tech.
Drive deep-dive analyses across the portfolio to synthesize insights and articulate recommendations.
Drive alignment across Offer, Topic, Sector Managers, Product Managers, and Tech Leads.
Identify trade-offs between GTM urgency, product innovation, and technical feasibility.
Support portfolio review forums and escalation pathways.
Champion the adoption of agentic developments to transform internal ways of working.
Proactively share best practices to scale proven approaches.
Collaborate with Finance to analyze and report on practice area performance.
Collaborate with the Go-to-Market team to support client narratives and marketing materials.
Work in a global and matrixed organization, collaborating across teams.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent in business, finance, engineering, or related field.
6-8 years of relevant professional experience.
3-5+ years of experience in strategy consulting at BCG (or equivalent), ideally as a Senior Associate/Consultant, or as a Lead-level Topic/Sector/Offer Manager (or equivalent).
Experience working effectively in a global environment with people at all organizational levels.
Strong experience in strategy development, problem-solving, and generalist consulting.
Strong analytical skillset with the ability to work independently with large datasets, build robust analyses, and draw insight-driven conclusions in an ambiguous environment.
Proven ability to develop innovation approaches & processes in an entrepreneurial environment.
Strong experience in strategic planning, execution, and programme management.
Proven ability to be proactive, highly organised and pragmatic.
Must be able to manage competing priorities, fragmentation, and multiple workstreams on a consistent basis.
Strong PowerPoint, Excel, and presentation skills.
Good tech literacy, including familiarity with leveraging Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini or other Agentic tools day-to-day.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment in complex, matrixed, global organizations.
Strong business acumen: able to assess commercial value, build investment cases.
Good judgment and the ability to connect as a trusted peer across all levels.
Comfortable bringing structure, discipline, and clarity to fast-moving, ambiguous transformation efforts.
Able to manage competing priorities and multiple workstreams without losing focus on strategic outcomes.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
Ability to articulate complex trade-offs to senior audiences.
Promotes growth mindset across team and demonstrates resilience under pressure.
Experience developing simple agentic tools (Good to have).
Experience in management of a portfolio of products/AI-powered offers, with growing accountability for investment decisions and performance outcomes (Good to have).
Knowledge of BCG industry/functional Practice Areas and/or BCG X (Good to have).

Skills

AI Strategy
Portfolio Management
Strategy Consulting
Problem Solving
Analytical Skills
Strategic Planning
Execution
Programme Management
Stakeholder Management
Business Acumen
PowerPoint
Excel
Presentation Skills
Tech Literacy
Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini
Agentic Tools
Communication Skills

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior Manager
6-8 years professional experience
3-5+ years consulting experience

Education Level

Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent

About the Company

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) partners with leaders in business and society to address their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963.
Today, BCG helps clients with total transformation, inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
Organizations need to blend digital and human capabilities to succeed.
BCG's 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, technology and design, corporate and digital ventures, and business purpose.
BCG works in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow 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.