Senior Analyst - BCG Vantage - People Strategy & Talent Management in Oil & Gas

Locations: Madrid | London

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What You'll Do

As a Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path within BCG's cross topic Energy and People & Organization (POP) Practice Areas you will work in a growing global team, providing industry/functional expertise and insights whilst working together with case and proposal teams to provide knowledge assets, analysis and expert advisory. You’ll serve as a thought partner and content expert to case teams and topic/sector leaders, helping structure and solve complex issues.

You will support commercialization efforts for the topic/sector working, in conjunction with business leaders, through contributing analysis and insights to proposals, client workshops and marketing materials. Additionally, as a Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage, you will contribute to developing intellectual property & assets for the business and assist in onboarding and training junior colleagues based on your topic/sector expertise.

Most of your time will be spent supporting case teams and developing POP within Energy related content, working side by side with members of different backgrounds. You will dedicate time to further develop and deepen BCG’s expertise in these areas, and to support the Energy and POP Practices, BCG Directors and Partners in business development initiatives.

BCG's Energy and POP Practice Areas help companies navigate an increasingly complex business climate.

In Energy we cover the Oil and Power & Gas sectors, including all "Green Energy" and Social Impact, Climate and Sustainability sectors. We work with the full range of players in the industry: integrated international oil companies (IOCs), national oil companies (NOCs), upstream players, oilfield service companies, refiners, petrochemical producers, and oil trading firms, integrated power and gas utilities, international power producers, renewable specialists, energy wholesalers and retailers, commodity traders, and infrastructure and industry service providers, water utilities and waste-management firms, governments, regulators, industry associations, NGOs, technology companies, OEMs and suppliers to the energy and environment industry, energy-intense heavy industry players.

In the People and Organization, we focus on three umbrella areas: Organization Design & Operating Model, Talent & Skills, and Change Management, Culture, & Purpose. Within the Talent & Skills topic, we focus on delivering leading edge talent management solutions across the entire employee lifecycle.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Solving client problems through formulating relevant research and/or analytical approaches in talent and skills, operating model, change and culture topics.
• Applying topic expertise when contributing to building and deploying a product/tool/data, taking different client contexts into account
• Codifying knowledge and maintaining assets and tools
• Working closely with topic leadership in defining business agenda
• Being a self-starter, a proactive problem-solver who thrives in environments with minimal guidance and takes ownership of scoping and driving work forward
• Communicating with case teams and stakeholders, in a credible and confident way
• Working collaboratively and effectively in a group dynamic often virtual, proficient in agile ways of working
• Being flexible and bringing a curious and creative mindset, open to new things and able to propose innovative ideas
• Navigating complexity and ambiguity
  
  

Responsibilities

• Client Delivery
• Leverages knowledge/experience to partner with consulting teams to identify and address critical knowledge needs e.g., what talent/skills are needed to drive the energy transition
• Provides customized knowledge for client work, prepares accurate, well developed analysis, in Office based formats
• Delivers original analysis and insights to consulting team, provides thought partnership
• Liaises with Research team to ensure that requests for expertise are addressed by Vantage and appropriate research is delivered
• Topic and Practice Development
• With consultants, collects, synthesizes, and leverages case team learning & inputs into new knowledge products (vignettes, experience)
• Builds & updates new topic/sector-related customized knowledge products and tools
• Controls Knowledge Management databases consistency
• Reviews knowledge products & ensures they are current & relevant and updates when appropriate
• Writes abstracts & indexes projects & PA documents
• Collaborates on practice area intellectual capital development
• Contributes to content development around topic/sector for PA meetings & trainings
  

What You'll Bring

• 2+ years of consulting experience covering People Strategy & Talent Management topics (talent and skills, operating models, change and culture) within Energy required (in O&G preferred); candidates with consulting experience strongly preferred
• In lieu of consulting experience, 3+ years minimum industry experience required; 4-6+ years of industry experience strongly preferred
• Bachelor's Degree required (advanced degree preferred)
• Fluency in English
• Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholder while working in a global collaborative team environment
  
  

Who You'll Work With

As a Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path, you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up of a diverse pool of BCG Vantage positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantage careers.

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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