Project Leader - Principal, Health Care Payer

Locations

Chicago | Detroit | Minneapolis

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.

Inspiring the bold who advance the health of care.

BCG’s global Health Care team works across the health care ecosystem to deliver sustainable competitive advantage for our clients, to create value for society, and to improve outcomes for patients. And we are passionate about it. We are committed to developing new insights and, through our customized approach, helping organizations navigate rapid change in today’s digital world. Our global health care team serves top companies across the health care industry - including biopharmaceuticals, medical technologies and devices, health care providers, payers, services, and global health.

BCG’s Health Care Practice is the third largest industry practice globally, and second in the US.

BCG is growing! We are looking for experienced consultants to join our Health Care team at the Project Leader or Principal level. Qualified individuals will play a critical role in enriching project work and bringing forward‑thinking solutions to our Health Care Services clients – primarily health systems and health insurance companies. Ideal candidates will have previous management consulting experience and demonstrated leadership in growing client relations, people and knowledge development.

In this role, you will lead high‑impact transformation programs, partnering with OneBCG teams — spanning traditional consulting, digital, AI, and technology talent — as well as senior client stakeholders. This is an outstanding opportunity to sharpen your problem‑solving toolkit while gaining exposure to a broad range of industry challenges and opportunities.

Health Care consultants’ partner with Health Care Services clients to define winning strategies, shape their value proposition, enhance their operational effectiveness, and create sustained advantage.

Project Leaders play a key role on client engagements, managing studies to define client needs and supervising research activities to obtain relevant data. Project Leaders oversee the formulation of hypotheses for research and investigation, and the advanced financial analysis of client, competitor, and industry data. They apply knowledge of business principles and industrial organization, develop actionable recommendations, and supervise work including strategic due diligence, product development studies, change management plans, and the evaluation of long‑term investment opportunities.

Project Leaders are also responsible for managing client contact and play a key role in the development and maintenance of high‑level client relationships.

As the senior person most frequently at the client site, Principals interact with the client lead on a day‑to‑day basis to ensure that expectations are aligned. Principals provide the project management oversight required to meet…