Global Product Senior Manager - People & Costs

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 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.

What Youll Do

Be part of a team that is supporting BCG s digital transformation through analytics and data! We are building out a centralized Business Intelligence Analytics function that will simplify and automate information delivery providing advanced insights and analysis to support decision making. To date, the team has launched and operationalized dozens of global-scale products and dashboards, enhancing how our leaders engage in information to manage the business. The next wave of digital reporting is underway, and we need your help to unlock further value for BCG s leadership and functions with best-in-class business intelligence and analytics.

The Business Intelligence Analytics Product Sr. Manager, will play a pivotal role for the People Cost Squad, driving innovation in digital solutions and products to provide actionable insights and analytics for BCGs Leadership. You will be responsible for leading the end-to-end technical design and supporting development of Tableau-based reporting solutions, leveraging your expertise in data architecture and engineering to ensure the scalability, security, and reliability of our products. Your role will involve providing strategic guidance on UX feasibility, data model design, and performance engineering; while evolving our best practices and standards that maximize the adoption and impact of our products around the world.

Responsibilities would include:

Determine requirements for the business, specifically reporting and analytic requirements needed to support senior management decision making across the firm (with a focus on Tableau based dashboards)

Serve as a Liaison between the BIA Product Portfolio and the ClientView Product Teams to ensure that both BIA and ClientView program goals are met

Working with key senior stakeholders to gather and document business requirements

o Defining the form, content, and capabilities provided in our BI solution

o Identify key changes and impacts to our existing reporting capabilities and products

Understanding multiple data sources and putting together practical and viable data model for the analytics reports being prepared

Developing comprehensive implementation plans along with delivering the output

as defined in the project s goals and objectives

Assessing the gaps between the prioritized requirements and the current reporting capabilities. Generating solution options and, with the use of an agreed set of design principles, selecting the preferred option to move forward

Acting as a functional subject matter expert for partnering to troubleshooting data issues, redesign processes and develop reports

Developing training materials and delivering trainings to end-users

Curating backlog of requested enhancements

Develop and track technical roadmap for feature enhancements

Assist with validation of data and product builds

What Youll Bring

• Bachelor s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or Economics. MBA Preferred, but not required
• 6-8+ years of finance and reporting relevant experience; less experience considered for exceptional performers
• Sound analytical and reporting skills combined with excellent communication skills
• Proven ability to work effectively in a global environment with people at all levels,
• preferably in a professional services organization
• Strong experience with enterprise software and business intelligence solutions required (Tableau Business Objects required)
• Experience in reading/writing SQL and navigating databases without documentation

Who Youll Work With

As a member of the team, you will interact extensively with a diverse range of stakeholders from across the business, both geographically and functionally. The role sits within the Enterprise Services organization; coordinating and working with our Analysis, Planning, and Reporting teams will play a large part in this role.

Additional info

YOU RE GOOD AT

Problem solving and analytical tasks

Ability to structure hypothesis, build thoughtful analyses, develop underlying data model, and bring clarity to previously undefined problems

Desire and flexibility to work through details with keen attention to accuracy and interdependencies

Natural curiosity to understand how things work and why; our data, our processes, and our reports. Desire to comprehend root causes when issues arise

Comfortable working with ambiguity and in an iterative environment

Communication, interpersonal and teaming skills

Works positively and collaboratively with others and within team; builds strong and lasting relationships

Working and partnering with remote team members in different time zones

Adapts style to changing situations and audiences with tact, poise, and patience. Demonstrates persistence to drive change. Contributes to a positive and productive work environment

Leverages network effectively across functions, offices, regions and/or externally (existing network within BCG will be helpful)

Experience on data visualization and / or ability to present data analytics in an insightful manner for the leadership will be another advantage

Work Management, organization, and planning

Must be able to perform successfully in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment

Strong Organizational skills and process management skills

Ability to contribute to multiple work streams at once and prioritize efforts accordingly. Demonstrated ability to drive projects to scheduled conclusion

Familiarity or willingness to work on Agile methodology will be a plus

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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