Boston Consulting Group - Senior Knowledge Analyst - Consumer Goods

PRACTICE AREA:

BCG's Consumer practice creates breakthrough innovations for clients in the consumer goods, retail and travel and tourism industries. We work collaboratively with our clients to deliver insights that produce results- through a deep understanding of the consumer's point of view and a refusal to accept taken-for-granted compromises in the business. Please visit our internal website to learn more: http://bcgnavigator.bcg.com/Topic/topic.asp?Topic_ID=2124

ROLE SUMMARY:

- Possess strong analytical skills and good understanding of the Consumer goods space

- 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 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

- Contribute to BCG's growing knowledge base

- Learn the business & build expertise

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work with case and proposal teams

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

- Provides customized knowledge for client work, prepares accurate, 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 project s & 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)

- Experience and knowledge in Consumer and Retail industry

- Effective written & verbal communication

- 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

- Developing expertise in the affiliated PA

- Ability to maintain discretion when needed

- Proficiency in MS Office, especially PowerPoint and Excel

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