Boston Consulting Group - Senior Knowledge Analyst - Industrial Good

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. 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. Founded in 1963, BCG is a private company with offices in more than 90 cities in 50 countries. For more information, please visit bcg.com.

PRACTICE AREA:

BCG's Industrial Goods practice serves six broad industrial segments: Automotive, Engineered Products & Infrastructure, Materials and 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 exploit new opportunities.

ROLE SUMMARY:

- Possess strong analytical skills and good understanding of one or more of Indian transport infrastructure sectors (Roads, Ports, Urban transport, Railways, Airports or logistics)

- Experience with and an understanding of public sector clients, is preferred

- Delivers original analysis and insights to case team and clients, provides thought partnership

- Share topic/sector insights and points of view more broadly within the firm

- Team-up and collaborate with the global team to support the worldwide IG team agenda

- Gain expertise by initiating and driving knowledge initiatives and capture

- Provide thought partnership and expert source know-how to case and topic/sector teams

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work with case and proposal teams

- Partners with case teams globally to identify & address critical knowledge needs

- Provides customized knowledge for client work, prepares well-developed client-ready deliverables

- Delivers original analysis and insights to case team, provides thought partnership

- Collaborates with consultants, collects, synthesizes, analyzes case team learning & inputs into new knowledge products (vignettes, experience, databases, knowledge products, etc)

Work with topic/sector teams

- Provides analytical services (e.g., benchmarking, primary market sizing, usage of practice proprietary tools)

- Provides sophisticated synthesis and packaging of results (e.g., Excel data manipulation, client-ready PowerPoint slides)

- Assures proper sign-off before uploading materials into KM & contributes to sanitization

- Writes abstracts & indexes projects & PA documents

- Collaborates on PA intellectual capital development such as Tier 1s

- Contributes to content development around topic/sector for PA meetings & trainings

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

- 4-6 years of relevant industry experience (consulting/business research)

- In-depth knowledge in the one or more Infrastructure sectors (Rail, Road, Airports, Ports, logistics, etc).

- Effective verbal and written communication

- Experience of working in in international teams and projects

- Ability to manage multiple parallel tasks independently, with limited guidance

- Strong work ethics & service-mind set

- Ability to build & maintain a strong industry network

- Ability to provide analytical insights

- Ability to operate effectively in a fast paced matrix organization

- Strong interpersonal skills, collaborative, team player

- Fast learner, with an ability to work across industries and cases, adapting to changing business needs

- Ability to maintain discretion when needed

- Proficiency in MS Office, especially PowerPoint and Excel