BCG X Global PA AI Strategy & Portfolio Senior Manager
Listed on 2026-10-21
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Corporate Strategy, Business Analyst, Change Management, AI Business & Operations
The Global AI Strategy & Portfolio Senior Manager plays a critical role in driving the growth of our BCG X business in AI and Tech for a subset of industries and functions. This role works directly with senior leaders across BCG X and BCG to drive our commercial priorities in AI & digital topics, and help focus our investments on the most critical digital & AI topics that we build & sell to clients.
The Global AI Strategy & Portfolio Senior Manager reports to the Global AI Strategy & Portfolio Director, and works directly with the Global AI nodes of 2-3 Industries & Functions. The role helps to orchestrate the AI agenda across a specific set of priorities that varies depending on the Industry/Function - and will evolve with the market. It requires strong executive stakeholder management, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a strong analytical skillset to generate insightful recommendation to senior leadership - in an area that is changing exponentially in today's intersection of AI/Agentic, Business, and Tech.
You'll Do
The scope of the role will evolve as the organization matures. This position requires adaptability and the ability to continuously refine approaches as needed, and involves without being limited to the following:
This role offers the opportunity to work on core strategic topics for both BCG & BCG X to support continued growth of the firm in the AI & Tech space. You will have the opportunity to operate at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and commercial decision-making, with significant ownership over insight generation that shapes senior leadership decisions.
Industry/Functional Practice Area AI Strategy & Activation (2-3 Practice Areas)- Drive the definition of the overall priorities & activation plan for driving the AI business in a subset of practice areas
- Shape the right portfolio of digital & AI offers with senior Sector & Functional Topic leaders across BCG X and BCG
- Activate GTM activities across Sectors/Functional Topics/Regions
- Manage the ongoing management cadence with the AI leadership team
- Facilitate a strong partnership model between BCG X and BCG Industry/Functional Leaders, and sharing best practices across practice areas
- Champion and support the shift toward agentic offers across Industries/Functions
- Programme manage the execution of AI priorities, including ownership of some work streams, while launching / standardising scalable processes & artifacts
- Strengthen people affiliation and community engagement (e.g., running townhalls)
- Support investment prioritization decisions on AI & Tech to drive focus toward commercial offers with the highest strategic and commercial impact
- Drive deep-dive analyses across portfolio by structuring ambiguous problems, slicing and dicing large data sets, synthesizing insights, and clearly articulating implications and recommendations for decision-making
- Drive alignment across Offer, Topic, and Sector Managers, Product Managers, and Tech Leads around shared portfolio outcomes
- Help identify trade-offs between GTM urgency, product innovation, and technical feasibility
- Support portfolio review forums and escalation pathways: manage logistics, prepare materials, and contribute to discussion
- Champion the adoption of agentic developments to transform our way of working internally with AI & Tech, for example building light touch Claude agents to standardise practice area reporting
- Proactively share best practices to scale proven approaches
- Collaborate with Finance to analyse and report on practice area performance, including profitability of offers;
- Collaborate with the Go-to-Market team to support the right client narratives and marketing materials across the portfolio.
- Work in a highly global and matrixed organization, collaborating across regions, industries, functions, and BCG X teams., You will work leaders across BCG and BCG X, including but not limited to:
- BCG X Global Leadership Team
- BCG X & BCG Industry & Functional Practice Area Leaders
- BCG X & Practice Area Offer Leaders
- BCG X Finance
- BCG X & BCG functional teams (Marketing, Business Management & Staffing, IP/legal, etc.)
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