BCG X Global PA AI Strategy & Portfolio Manager
Boston Consulting Group · London, United Kingdom · 2mo ago
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What You'll Do
The Global AI Strategy & PortfolioManager plays a critical role in driving the growth of ourBCG X business in AI and Tech for a subset of industries and functions. This role works directly with senior leaders across BCG X and BCG to drive our commercial priorities in AI & digital topics, and help focus our investments on the most critical digital & AI topics that we build & sell to clients.
The Global AI Strategy & PortfolioManagerreports to the Global AI Strategy & Portfolio Director, and works directly with the Global AI nodes of 2-3 Industries & Functions. The role helps to orchestrate the AI agenda across a specific set of priorities that varies depending on the Industry/Function – and will evolve with the market. It requires strong executive stakeholder management, an entrepreneurial spirit, anda strong analytical skillset to generateinsightful recommendation to senior leadership – in an area that is changing exponentially in today’s intersection of AI/Agentic, Business, and Tech.
What You'll Do
This role offers the opportunity to work on core strategic topics for both BCG & BCG X to support continued growth of the firm in the AI & Tech space. You will have the opportunity to operate at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and commercial decision-making, with significant ownership over insight generation that shapes senior leadership decisions.
Industry/Functional Practice Area AI Strategy & Activation (2-3 Practice Areas)
- Support the definition of the overall priorities & activation plan for driving the AI business in a subset of practice areas
- Help shape the right portfolio of digital & AI offers with senior Sector & Functional Topic leaders across BCG X and BCG
- Help activate GTM activities across Sectors/Functional Topics/Regions
- Manage the ongoing management cadence with the AI leadership team
- Facilitate a strong partnership model between BCG X and BCG Industry/Functional Leaders, and sharing best practices across practice areas
- Champion and support the shift toward agentic offers across Industries/Functions
- Programme manage the execution of AI priorities, including ownership of some workstreams, while launching / standardising scalable processes & artifacts
- Strengthen people affiliation and community engagement (e.g., running townhalls)
Offer Investment and Portfolio Management
- Support investment prioritization decisions on AI & Tech to drive focus toward commercial offers with the highest strategic and commercial impact
- Drive deep-dive analyses across portfolio by structuring ambiguous problems, slicing and dicing large data sets, synthesizing insights, and clearly articulating implications and recommendations for decision-making
- Support alignment across Offer, Topic, and Sector Managers, Product Managers, and Tech Leads around shared portfolio outcomes
- Help identify trade-offs between GTM urgency, product innovation, and technical feasibility
- Support portfolio review forums and escalation pathways: manage logistics, prepare materials, and contribute to discussion
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Process Improvement
- Adopt agentic developments to transform our way of working internally with AI & Tech, for example building light touch Claude agents to standardise practice area reporting
- Collaborate with Finance to analyse and report on practice area performance, including profitability of offers;
- Collaborate with the Go-to-Market team to support the right client narratives and marketing materials across the portfolio.
- Work in a highly global and matrixed organization, collaborating across regions, industries, functions, and BCG X teams.
What You'll Bring
Experience & Expertise
- Bachelor’s or master’s Degree or equivalent in business, finance, engineering, or related field
- 6-8 years of relevant professional experience
- Including 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
Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving
- 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
Strategic Planning & Execution
- Strong experience in strategic planning, execution, and programme management
- Proven ability to be proactive, highly organised and pragmatic – must be able to smartly 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
Leadership & Interpersonal Skills
- 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 - Managing Directors and Partners, consulting staff, and BST colleagues
- 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, with the ability to articulate complex trade-offs to senior audiences
- Promotes growth mindset across team and demonstrates resilience under pressure
Good to have
- Experience developing simple agentic tools
- Experience in management of a portfolio of products/AI-powered offers, with growing accountability for investment decisions and performance outcomes
- Knowledge of BCG industry/functional Practice Areas and/or BCG X
Who You'll Work With
You will work leaders across BCG and BCG X, including but not limited to:
- BCG X Global Leadership Team
- BCG X & BCG Industry & Functional Practice Area Leaders
- BCG X & Practice Area Offer Leaders
- BCG X Finance
- BCG X & BCG functional teams (Marketing, Business Management & Staffing, IP/legal, etc.)
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