Senior Analyst - BCG Vantage, Automotive & Mobility

Locations:
Chicago | Detroit

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 – BCG Vantage on our Client Focus path within BCG's Industrial Goods Practice Area, you will work in a global team, delivering value to clients via individual expertise and/or institutionalized BCG Vantage assets (products, tools, data, workshops, frameworks, surveys, domain-specific data and related expertise, etc.). You will contribute on cases and proposals by contributing relevant analysis and insights and help case teams create strong impact for the client.

While contributing to client cases, workshops and proposals, occasional travel to serve clients onsite during staffing assignments is expected to understand client requirements, and design / develop solutions.

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

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BCG’s Industrial Goods practice serves three major sectors:
Automotive & Mobility, Materials & Process Industries, and Engineered Products & Industrial Technologies. We help companies in these sectors think beyond the limits of their traditional business models, analyze where and how to add value, improve performance and position to defend themselves against new threats and exploit new opportunities. Within the Automotive Aftermarket, Retail and Dealer subsector, we are serving, amongst others, aftermarket manufacturing, independent distributors, retail & service, dealers, collision repair, procurement platforms, financing/leasing/insurance and aftersales technologies.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Solving client problems through formulating relevant research and/or analytical approaches for our clients in the Automotive Retail, Aftermarket, Dealer segment
• Communicating with case teams and clients team members, in a credible and confident way
• Working collaboratively and effectively within (virtual) teams, 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 in a fast-paced environment

What You'll Bring

• 2+ years of consulting experience in Automotive & Mobility sector with topic experience in the Automotive Aftermarket and Vehicle Retail/Distribution required; 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; additional languages are a plus
• Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities
• Proficient in building dynamic (Excel) models and using Generative AI tools for industry research and analytics
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to interact with internal and external senior stakeholders in a credible and confident way

Who You'll Work With

As a Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage on our Client Focus path, you will work…