Consultant or Project Leader, Industrial Goods

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.

Practice Area

BCG’s Industrial Goods practice serves four broad industrial segments: Automotive & Mobility, Engineered Products & Infrastructure, Materials & Process Industries, and Transportation & Logistics. We help companies in these sectors think beyond the limits of their traditional business models, choose where and how they should add value, and reorganize to defend themselves against new threats and explore new opportunities.

What You'll Do

As a Consultant or Project Leader within BCG's Industrial Goods Practice, you will be a core member of our practice working alongside some of the world's top minds in industry. You will help companies from a variety of Industrial goods branches through decisive changes. On a day to-day basis, this will translate in:

• Supporting the growth of our Industrial goods practice through case execution, client development, and intellectual property & product creation
• Executing or providing expertise on projects within the industrial goods branches for our key clients in multiple industries in Paris (ie Aviation, Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Machinery and Industrial Automation, Agribusiness)
• Teaming up with BCG X to put AI to work for our international clients - generative AI cutting design cycles for aircraft and vehicle components, predictive maintenance keeping critical fleets running, and the new wave of agentic AI already reshaping factories across Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, and Industrial Automation 
• Working jointly with BCG and client project teams, bringing expertise to the team and to the client on site
• Leading project workstreams and a small team of consultants
• Providing intellectual leadership for the project teams by generating key ideas and conceptual frameworks to guide research and analysis
• Contributing to the creation of BCG's intellectual capital on different topics within the material and process industries: innovation, publications, toolkits, benchmarks, templates, processes as well as position papers, studies, and insights from case experience

What You'll Bring

• Have at least 7 years of experience working in diverse projects in the Industrial Goods area and a track record of team leadership and related achievements
• Deep knowledge and understanding of at least one of the following industries : Aerospace & Defense industries (Military services, International Defense organizations...), Automotive, Machinery and Industrial Automation, Agribusiness
• Experience in Tech/Digital/AI in industrial goods projects is appreciated 
• Have experience actively managing multiple client and stakeholder relationships and networking within the client organization to understand their needs and help influence the client agenda
• Have the interpersonal skills to partner with executive management teams as they implement a new vision and passion for enabling leaders to drive change within organizations set you apart 
• Be a collaborative team player with positive attitude, high ethical standards and experienced in international work
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in French and English, in addition to a strong presence and leadership skills

Additional info

When you Join BCG's Paris office, you will work for the strategy consulting leader in France and one of the Boston Consulting Groups most prominent offices. It is also one of the largest offices in our network with a team of 500+ consultants, out of which there are about 50 partners and managing directors.

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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