Practice Area Senior Manager – Public Sector Full Time

Boston Consulting Group
WHAT YOU’LL DOAs a Regional Practice Area Senior Manager within BCG’s Public Sector Practice Area (PSPA), you will be a thought partner and executing arm for PA leadership. You will help set the strategic agenda, run the business, and implement priority initiatives across a spectrum of business development, people and affiliation, and marketing and communication activities to improve and grow the PA. You will work closely with the EMESA Regional Practice Area Leader (RPAL), Global PA and Sector leadership, and EMESA leadership for our EMESA government teams.

Specifically, you will:
Facilitate the Business

• Support planning processes ( , revenues, pipeline, budget, investments); track progress; define and implement solutions to address roadblocks or unlock opportunities
• Manage regional OCI, risk, and compliance process; proactively manage approach to risk

Manage People Processes

• Work with Regional Practice Area Leadership to develop overall people plan, set goals, and manage priority initiatives; own implementation and tracking of progress
• Manage people dashboards/reports and analyze data to refine strategy

Drive Affiliation, Learning, and Development

• Identify opportunities and develop strategies to increase affiliation, learning, and development within the PA
• Support regional DEI strategy

Contribute to PA Communications and Marketing

• Support development of internal communication and marketing plan; coordinate with regional and global teams; draft communications
• With PA leadership, develop and support execution of a regional SATT strategy

Support PA Meetings and Events

• Lead the planning and execution of regional PA events and leadership meetings
• Work with global PSPA leadership to plan bi-annual global PA meetings

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Managing ambiguity with a high level of comfort
• Self-starting with a strong work ethic, entrepreneurial drive to work autonomously
• Driving complex, ambiguous PA projects or processes that routinely require independent judgment, trade-offs, or prioritization
• Earning the respect of a very senior cohort, all Managing Directors, that are remotely located, juggling the various priorities and viewpoints of the Leadership Team members, showing influence to compile inputs and opinions from the Leadership Team members, while still meeting demanding deadlines
• Performing advanced strategic analysis (beyond the data) and leveraging results for impact
• Complex project management with the ability to multi-task and drive advanced strategic analysis (beyond data) and leverage results for impact
• Working closely to develop and enhance people initiatives – developing a plan to manage the people networks and support the success of consultants with the practice involvement
• Affiliation, communication and training – organizing internal/ external events and calls, develop agendas for meetings and preparing communication, coordinate calls, Virtual Trainings, LAB activities, own sector platforms, and develop all sector internal communications / newsletters on regular basis.
• Independently collaborating with other functions and PAs on initiatives/recurring issues to find solutions or establish best practices
• Demonstrating expert mastery of full suite of PA related technical and quantitative skills/tools
• Leading others and influencing senior business leaders in clarifying problems and developing solutions; building consensus
• Motivating others to deliver highest standards, providing direction, mentoring and coaching.

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

• 8-10 years of relevant experience
• Master’s Degree Preferred
• Strong performance in a consulting staff role (C or PL) preferred
• Passion for and experience in 1+ sectors of the Public Sector PA a plus
• Ability to lead complex, multi-functional teams or projects independently and provide direction to others
• Ability to resolve complex issues and ambiguous problems autonomously, with strong business judgement
• Demonstrated strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, credibility
• Professional, service oriented, proactive, and flexible
• Ability to respect sensitive client, BCG, and people related information as personal and confidential
• Able to work with virtual, international teams
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including creation of presentations and effective PowerPoint decks
• Strong computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (SharePoint, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint essential)

YOU’LL WORK WITHYou will work closely with the EMESA Regional Practice Area Leader (RPAL) and their EMESA leadership team when setting the strategic agenda and driving implementation. For additional tasks, you will collaborate with teams within the global PSPA ( , Sector / Topic Managers, HR, Finance, Marketing). Additional interfaces exist with other regional managers, as well as with global and regional BCG functions and teams, as needed.