Manager - BCG Vantage, Data Centers and AI Infrastructure
Boston Consulting Group · London +1 · 3mo ago
Locations: London | Madrid
Who We Are
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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 You'll Do
As a Manager – BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation pathwithin BCG's Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) Practice Area, you will collaborate and partner in a growing global team, providing industry expertiseand insights. You will work 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/sector leaders, helping structure and solve complex issues.
Additionally, as a Manager – BCG Vantage you will drive development of intellectual property and knowledge assets to support the data centers and AI infrastructure business, serving as an active contributor to commercialization efforts for the topic/sector, whilst working with business leaders to drive proposals & go-to-market efforts. As a Manager – BCG Vantage, you may line manage a team of junior colleagues, taking responsibility for their goal setting, ongoing feedback and career development support.
You’ll work with our standing global team that builds and stewards BCG’s understanding of the physical backbone of AI – data center facilities, semiconductors, AI hardware, cooling, power, and more – as well as the economics of supply chain that underpin the largest infrastructure buildout in generations. You’ll advance our understanding and make it available to the BCG project teams and clients that are shaping the future of data centers, compute, and AI infrastructure.
YOU'RE GOOD AT
Solving complex client problems through relevant analytical approaches and customized solutions across the data center and AI infrastructure stack
Driving development and maintenance of knowledge assets e.g.tools and materials covering the AI economics/tokenomics and materials covering the full AI infrastructure stack, based on different client contexts
Communicating with senior stakeholders, demonstrating the ability to engage your audience effectively
Managing a portfolio of projects, with strong awareness of business priorities and commercial impact
Training, coaching, and mentoring junior team members
Working in an ever changing and complex environment, and comfortable with ambiguity and navigating a fast-paced environment
What You'll Bring
3+ years consulting experience in data centers, semiconductors, or related hardware required; candidates with consulting experience preferred
In lieu of consulting experience, 4+ years minimum industry experience required; 6-10+ years of industry experience strongly preferred
Bachelor's Degree required (advanced degree preferred)
Expertise in topics related to data centers, such as AI hardware, supply chain / procurement, operations, or infrastructure investment
Fluency in English; other languages helpful but not required
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 Manager – BCG Vantageon 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 Vantagepositions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantagecareers.
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.
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