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What You’ll Do
As a Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path within BCG’s cross topic Energy Practice Area you will work in a growing global team, providing industry expertise and insights whilst working together with case and proposal teams to provide knowledge assets, analysis and expert advisory. You’ll serve as a thought partner and content expert to case teams and topic leaders, helping structure and solve complex issues that will range significantly as per our client needs and latest developments and trends. You will support commercialization efforts for the topic working, in conjunction with business leaders, through contributing analysis and insights to proposals, client workshops and marketing materials.
Additionally, as a Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage, you will contribute to developing intellectual property & assets for the business and assist in onboarding and training junior colleagues based on your topic expertise.
Most of your time will be spent supporting case teams and developing Energy related content, working side by side with members of different backgrounds. You will dedicate time to further develop and deepen BCG’s expertise in these areas, and to support the Energy Practice, BCG Directors and Partners in business development initiatives.
BCG’s Energy Practice Area help companies navigate an increasingly complex business climate.
In Energy we cover the Oil and Power & Gas sectors, including all "Green Energy" and Social Impact, Climate and Sustainability sectors. We work with the full range of players in the industry: integrated international oil companies (IOCs), national oil companies (NOCs), upstream players, oilfield service companies, refiners, petrochemical producers, and oil trading firms, integrated power and gas utilities, international power producers, renewable specialists, energy wholesalers and retailers, commodity traders, and infrastructure and industry service providers, water utilities and waste-management firms, governments, regulators, industry associations, NGOs, technology companies, OEMs and suppliers to the energy and environment industry, energy-intense heavy industry players.
You’re Good At

Solving client problems through formulating relevant research and/or analytical approaches in power and gas retail including and new products and services opportunity for utilities. Advanced excel modelling skills and high quantitative abilities are critical in this job position
Applying topic expertise when contributing to building and deploying a product/tool/data, taking different client contexts into account
Codifying knowledge and maintaining assets and tools
Working closely with topic leadership in defining business agenda
Being a self-starter, a proactive problem-solver who thrives in environments with minimal guidance and takes ownership of scoping and driving work forward. Intrapreneurial mindset highly valued
Communicating with case teams and stakeholders, in a credible and confident way
Working collaboratively and effectively in a group dynamically, often virtual, proficient in agile ways of working
Being flexible and bringing a curious and creative mindset, open to new things and able to propose innovative ideas
Navigating complexity and ambiguity
High critical thinking and being able to easily sense check with back of the envelope and quality checks analysis the quality of our messaging and outputs

Responsibilities
Client Delivery

Leverages knowledge/experience to partner with consulting teams to identify and address critical knowledge needs e.g., what talent/skills are needed to drive the energy transition
Provides customized knowledge for client work, prepares accurate, well-developed analysis, in Office based formats
Delivers original analysis and insights to consulting team, provides thought partnership
Liaises with Research team to ensure that requests for expertise are addressed by Vantage and appropriate research is delivered

Topic and Practice Development

With consultants, collects, synthesizes, and leverages case team learning & inputs into new knowledge products (vignettes, experience)
Builds & updates new topic/sector-related customized knowledge products and tools
Controls Knowledge Management databases consistency
Reviews knowledge products & ensures they are current & relevant and updates when appropriate
Writes abstracts & indexes projects & PA documents
Collaborates on practice area intellectual capital development
Contributes to content development around topic/sector for PA meetings & trainings

What You’ll Bring

2+ years of consulting in power and gas retail and/or power flexibility/demand response topics; candidates with consulting experience strongly preferred
In lieu of consulting experience, 3+ years minimum industry experience required; 4-6+ years of industry experience strongly preferred
Bachelor's Degree required (advanced degree preferred)
Fluency in English
Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholder while working in a global collaborative team environment

Who You’ll Work With
As a Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path, you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up of a diverse pool of BCG Vantage positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantage careers.
Additional Info
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, each playing a crucial role in delivering value to clients, case teams and practice teams.
Client Focus (Embedded Expertise)

Integrates into client-facing teams to deliver direct client impact through expertise, know-how, and proprietary tools and assets

Topic Activation (Sector Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions)

Combines deep domain insights with our know-how and proprietary assets to address targeted challenges directly with clients and project teams; co-creates insights on industry trends and functional topics, proprietary data and tools, and teams to codify IP that all enables BCG to deliver excellent business value with its clients

Research (Practice Topic and Sector-Aligned Research and Insights)

Delivers actionable research and insights tailored to the client project’s needs; works with qualitative and quantitative data, conducts research and provides synthesized results from sources including commercial data, public and open source, company and industry research, macro-economic, commodities and trade data.

Equal Opportunity Employer
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. Click here for more information on E-Verify.
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