Research Analyst - BCG Vantage

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What You'll Do

• You will manage various research requests with a high-level accuracy and organization, primarily on a key industry or topic in Vietnam
• You will be required to understand request objectives focused on industry/topic name and proactively suggest most appropriate and efficient research approach to customers, as appropriate
• Conduct research that combines traditional methodologies with AI-enabled workflows to deliver faster, deeper, and more actionable insights.
• Support customers by synthesizing information from multiple sources into concise, decision-ready recommendations.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct secondary research across industry, company, market, competitor, and industry topics in South East Asia particularly Vietnam.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, summarize large volumes of information, identify patterns, and generate initial hypotheses.
• Validate AI-generated outputs using authoritative and credible sources.
• Design effective prompts and refine AI interactions to improve research quality and efficiency.
• Analyze structured and unstructured data to identify trends, opportunities, and business implications.
• Develop clear research reports, presentations, and executive summaries.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate research needs into actionable insights.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI research tools and best practices.
• Maintain high standards for data privacy, confidentiality, and responsible AI use.

Engaging with customers

• You will thrive learning in a rich, fast paced, deadline driven yet thoughtful environment that is customer focused. Working closely with more senior team members, you will engage with Internal clients daily with the aim to understand, scope and deliver accurate, timely and relevant data and information

Working flexibly in in a fast-paced environment

• In addition to being intellectually curious and being able to work in a fast-paced, deadline focused environment, you can identify practical, timely and innovative research approaches

What You'll Bring

• 2-4+ years of relevant working experience, with some specialization for Vietnam markets
• Strong secondary research and analytical capabilities.
• Experience using AI tools (for example, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot) to enhance research productivity.
• Ability to write effective prompts and critically evaluate AI-generated content.
• Strong factchecking and source validation skills.
• Experience synthesizing complex information into concise business insights.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and AI trends.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to research quality
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, Vietnam Mother Tongue

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.

"At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person collaboration plays an important role in our culture, mentorship, and professional development.

For this role, you will generally be expected to work from a BCG office or in person with clients on a regular basis (typically around 50% of working time), depending on business needs and in line with local policies and practices.

We aim to provide a dynamic and collaborative environment that fosters connection and teamwork."

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