BCG X Global PA AI Strategy & Portfolio Manager

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What You'll DoThe Global AI Strategy & Portfolio 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 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.  

What You'll DoThis 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) Support the definition of the overall priorities & activation plan for driving the AI business in a subset of practice areas

Help shape the right portfolio of digital & AI offers with senior Sector & Functional Topic leaders across BCG X and BCGHelp 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)
Offer Investment and Portfolio Management 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

Support 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 Cross-Functional Collaboration & Process Improvement Adopt agentic developments to transform our way of working internally with AI & Tech, for example building light touch Claude agents to standardise practice area…