Associate | Generalist Consulting

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

What You’ll Do

As a member of our consulting team, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s top minds on cases that reshape business, government, and society. You’ll collaborate on challenging projects with team members from many backgrounds and disciplines, increasing your understanding of complex business problems from diverse perspectives and developing new skills and experience to help you at every stage of your career—at BCG and beyond.

Consulting work is varied and rigorous, much of it performed at our client sites. Projects can vary in length, size, and location, depending on the client’s challenge. Because our clients operate all over the world, you may travel internationally.

If you are joining us directly from school or with a few years of experience, expect to spend time working across a wide range of clients and projects from helping to devise the integration strategy for a pharmaceutical merger to developing sustainable farming practices in emerging countries.

Job Description

The primary responsibilities of a Business Analyst / Associate involve research and analysis. A Business Analyst / Associate is responsible for gathering and analyzing data which will be presented to the project team and the client in order to shed light on a topic and advance the thinking of the team.

Other responsibilities include clients and field interviews, analyzing data to find patterns, form hypotheses and reach conclusions and communicate those findings in a structured way. Our consulting process depends on close teamwork between the client’s organization and our staff.

The team interaction centres on intensive analysis of objective data and open discussion, complemented by objective research into the competitive environment.

Requirements

• Outstanding academic performance and strong record of extracurricular activity
• Strong research/analysis experience and abilities, including excellent Excel skills
• Able to wok creatively and analytically in a time-limited, problem-solving environment
• Organisational skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills