Boston Consulting Group - Analyst - Analytics - Gamma Solutions & Services Team

ABOUT BCG GAMMA SOULTIONS AND SERVICES TEAM:

The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their businesses. Our customized approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets with close collaboration at all levels of the client organization. This ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations, and secure lasting results. BCG is a private company with 80 offices in 43 countries.

BCG's Gamma Solutions and Services team delivers powerful analytics-based insights designed to help our clients tackle their most pressing business problems. We partner with BCG case teams and practices across the full analytics value- chain: framing new business challenges, building fact-bases, designing innovative analytics workflows, training colleagues in new methodologies, and interpreting findings for our clients. This team is a global resource, working with clients in every BCG region and in every industry area. It is a core member of a rapidly growing Analytics enterprise at BCG - a constellation of teams focused on driving practical results for BCG clients by bringing leading edge analytics approaches.

ROLE SUMMARY:

We are seeking a strong candidate with advanced analytics experience to fill an Analyst position within BCG's Gamma Solutions and Services team. The role will be responsible for executing analysis that delivers valuable insights to BCG's clients in collaboration with BCG case teams. When teaming with local and international case teams, the Analyst will ensure data and analysis is of high quality and deployed with sound business sense. The Analyst will be proficient in the application of Geo spatial data & analytics techniques to domain specific problems such as Catchment area analysis, density analysis, location analysis, network optimization, logistics optimization, amongst others.

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work with case (and proposal) teams

- Executes & delivers original analysis and insights to case teams, typically owns all or part of an analytics module and may be integrated with a case team

- Establishes credibility by thought partnering with case teams on analytics topics; takes positions and draws conclusions on a range of external and internal issues

- Communicates analytical insights through sophisticated synthesis and packaging of results

(Including PPT slides and charts)

- With consultants - collects, synthesizes, analyzes case team learning & inputs into new best practices and methodologies

Work with topic and sector teams

- Contributes to development of new topic and sector-related analytics products based on repeated case team requests

- Collaborates on PA intellectual capital development such as internal investments in industry and functional research/publications

- Assures proper sign-off before uploading materials into Knowledge Management; sanitizes confidential client content in marketing documents

- Develops topic and sector content related to analytics case work or Practice Area meetings and trainings

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

- Undergraduate degree in a field linked to business analytics, statistics or geo-statistics, economics, operations research, applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, or related field is required; advanced degree is preferred

- At least 2-3 years of relevant industry work experience providing advanced analytics solutions and around 1-2 years of consulting experience

KEY COMPETENCIES:

- Solid analytical skills

- Strong work ethic and service-oriented mentality

- Proactive with a strong inclination towards analytics

- Able to develop and codify knowledge

- Starting to grow an industry network

- Ability to provide analytical advice

- Ability to multi-task and operate effectively in a fast-paced matrix organization

- Solid knowledge in a topic/sector domain; motivation to further develop topical expertise over time (e.g. Operations, Marketing etc.)

- Effective written and verbal communication

- Strong interpersonal skills, credibility

- Collaborative, team player

- Ability to maintain discretion

Technical skills

- Experience with multiple analytics methods (one or more required)

- Data management skills (e.g. data modeling, data integrity QA/QC)

- Geospatial data visualization and analytics (specialties such as cluster detection or geo- statistical methods)

- Spatial-temporal analysis (cartographic animation of time-series data)

- Network analysis (location-allocation, OD matrix, travelling sales person, vehicle routing problem)

- Catchment area analysis, customer segmentation and targeting

- Experience in core analytics methods (one or more of the following):

- Geo coding & geo referencing

- Knowledge of open source & proprietary geo analytics data sources

- Geographic cluster recognition

- Data manipulation techniques (Knowledge of SAS, SAS EM or Alteryx will be a plus)

- Network analysis (location-allocation, OD Matrix travelling sales person, vehicle routing problem)

- Spatial-temporal analysis

- Familiarity with analytics tools (one or more required)

- GIS toolkits (ESRI, Quantum GIS, MapInfo or similar)

- Advanced Excel

- Alteryx, including geospatial types and functions

- Tableau

- SQL

- Knowledge of Llama soft/SupplyChain Guru a plus

WORK ENVIRONMENT

- Fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment

- Work related travel would be required.

- Fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment

- Work related travel would be required.