Senior Analyst

Job description

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.

BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963.

Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change.

BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose.

We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Analyst in the Topic Activation track within BCG's Social Impact Practice Area (SI PA) for the global health topic, you will work in a growing global and entrepreneurial team, providing functional expertise and insights whilst working together with case and proposal teams to provide knowledge assets, analysis and expert advisory.

You will serve as a thought partner and content expert to case teams and topic/sector leaders, helping structure and solve complex issues, and bringing global health expertise and capabilities to the service of our internal and external clients.

Additionally, you will support your topic in developing existing & new intellectual property and knowledge assets, and advancing commercialization efforts in conjunction with business leaders.

This role requires a proactive, self-driven and agile individual to drive a diverse range of responsibilities and tasks, including:

• Knowledge management & IP development: Develop and manage BCG's leading research and perspectives on global health, including: working with internal experts to develop new highly relevant analysis that supports our clients in achieving their impact objectives; maintaining an up-to-date repository of relevant analysis and prior case work; supporting the drafting of reports and publications; supporting BCG's presence at strategic global health events.
  
  
• Commercial advice: working as a member of project teams to bring the best of BCG's topic knowledge & expertise to support client objectives.
  
  
• Business development: curating and regularly updating credentials to support bids; supporting the development of proposals, including: conducting research; writing key technical and non-technical sections; preparing pitch materials; cataloguing proposals and capturing learnings.
  
  
• Relationships and networks: building strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders; leveraging these to identify and pursue business opportunities.
  
  

Global health is a key priority in BCG's SI PA agenda.

We partner with leading global health organizations and foundations to promote healthy lives for all.

Together with our clients, our team defines strategies to develop and deliver life-saving interventions, and to improve our partners' organizational effectiveness and impact.

The Social Impact practice one of BCG's fastest growing practices.

Our Development Impact work collaborates with donors, foundations, NGOs, Governments and the private sector to create sustainable impact for society, nations and businesses, delivering 450+ projects annually.

We do this by drawing upon our deep thematic expertise in sectors such as economic development, climate, health and education; our global capacity of 21,000 staff, including leaders in their field; our in-market knowledge and presence across Africa and Asia, drawing upon our 90 offices worldwide; and our proprietary tools and approaches, with world-leading analytics, digital, change management and capacity building capabilities.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Delivering topic expertise and adding value across different workstreams

• Applying deep global expertise in various contexts, taking different internal stakeholder, partner organization and client needs into account

• Solving complex client problems through relevant analytical approaches and customized solutions, with a high capacity for conceptual and strategic/end-to-end thinking
• Codifying knowledge and maintaining assets and tools for the global health topic

• Writing for a range of audiences to produce high quality, data-driven and concise materials

• Taking initiative

• Managing a portfolio of 2-5 projects concurrently (depending on capacity allocation): such as knowledge management, client-facing projects, and business development initiatives

• Prioritizing workload including through transparent discussion with senior stakeholders, operating with autonomy to execute on the agreed priorities
• Working flexibly in an ever changing, complex and fast-paced environment, navigating ambiguity
• Bringing a curious and creative mindset, demonstrating openness and drive for purposing innovative ideas
• Stakeholder engagement and communication
• Proactively building strong relationships and demonstrating credibility and adaptability, including developing opportunities to apply expertise with internal stakeholders
• Working collaboratively with multi-cultural local and remote teams around the world, often virtual
• Operating comfortably in a client-facing role, managing demanding internal and external clients in a positive, service-oriented way
• Telling a structured, clear and visually engaging story and creating impactful intellectual property

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field required (advanced degree preferred)
• 1-2+ years of relevant consulting experience in global health; candidates with consulting experience preferred
• In lieu of consulting experience, 2+ years minimum industry experience required; 3-6+ years of industry experience strongly preferred
• Technical expertise in global health, preferably with experience working across both system-wide strategies and commercial models
• Experience in health financing and/or private sector healthcare delivery is a strong advantage
• Strong project management and implementation experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication (fluency in English required)
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• Advanced knowledge in Outlook, Word and Excel

Work authorization in Kenya required, open to Kenyan nationals or residents.
Who You'll Work With

You will work closely with the regional Vantage team in Kenya; the central global health team; the wider Social Impact Practice Area; our client teams; other global technical Practice Areas intersecting with health e.g. economic development, climate and sustainability, education; and our support functions, including finance and HR.

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.

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

Client Focus (Embedded Expertise)

• Integrates into client-facing teams to deliver direct client impact through expertise, know-how, and proprietary tools and assets

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.
  
  

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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