PhD Strategy Consultant — Global Impact

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Paris; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group in Paris recruits highly qualified consultants to help clients define strategic directions and solve their most complex problems. You work with project managers, partners and an international network to deliver impactful solutions.

You have a PhD and first professional experience, plus business fluency in English and French, with strong listening and analytical skills, energy and creativity, and a collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• PhD and initial professional experience.
• Business proficiency in English and French, written and spoken.
• Active listening and analytical rigour are essential.
• Energy and creativity help with problem solving.
• Ability to work in a team and contribute ideas.

Responsibilities

• Identify, define and prioritize client challenges.
• Build and conduct analyses to develop solutions.
• Develop strategic recommendations and support implementation.
• Contribute to sectoral and functional centers of expertise.

Skills

PhD

Bilingual EN/FR

Active listening

Analytical rigour

Creativity

Teamwork

Education

PhD

Job description

Who We Are

BCG is the pioneering firm in strategy consulting. For more than 60 years, we have been supporting our clients’ management teams in solving their most complex problems.

With more than 100 offices in 50 countries, we serve the world’s most influential companies and organizations. As a market leader in France, the Paris office plays a key role in BCG’s innovation and international development.

Supported by steady growth and a balanced portfolio of activities, we work in Paris for clients from all sectors. Consumer goods or industrial goods, finance, insurance, energy, health or telecommunications, so many opportunities to learn and develop in all sectors and on all the issues that interest you.

What You'll Do

Within our teams, you support our clients in France and abroad to help them develop their strategic orientations and solve their most complex problems.

Responsibilities

As a consultant, you are responsible for your modules and work hand in hand with our project managers, partners, international network of experts and client management to:

• Identify, define and prioritize the challenges they face
• Build and conduct relevant analyses to develop with them the best solutions
• Develop strategic recommendations for our clients, support them in their implementation and create a significant impact
• Actively contribute to the development of our sectoral and functional centers of expertise
  
  

Because our customers operate all over the world, in all industries, and their challenges arise in all functional areas, your missions allow you to intervene on a wide variety of issues. With each new project, you step out of your comfort zone, greatly expand your field of expertise, and quickly develop your learning curve and responsibilities. As you develop, you focus on the sectors and areas that motivate you most.

Throughout your career at BCG, you benefit from the monitoring and development of your career with your HR Talent Coordinator who supports you on a daily basis through your staffing and our various training programs adapted to each level of seniority. Your senior mentors and career Development Advisor, a member of the Bureau’s Officer Group, support you in your career progression at BCG.

What You'll Bring

The richness of our teams is based on the diversity of our employees. However, we share a few common traits: An inexhaustible curiosity to apprehend new issues, a leadership to embark and convince by the facts, a commitment to concretize your ideas and have an impact!

• You have a PhD and you already have a first professional experience
• You have a business proficiency level in both English and French, written as well as oral
• Active listening and analytical rigor are among your main qualities
• Your energy and creativity naturally lead you to problem solving
• You enjoy working as a team and know how to contribute by proactively provide ideas and recommendations
  
  

Additional info

• Excellence and impact: By joining BCG, you will be part of the leading strategy consulting firm in France, particularly on the main challenges of tomorrow's world: climate & sustainable development but also digital & artificial intelligence – the opportunity to have a significant and concrete impact on major economic and societal transformations.
• Intellectual challenge and lifelong learning: You take part in the resolution of ambitious, innovative and stimulating projects. Each new assignment will give you the opportunity to discover a new sector or business function, to work and connect with colleagues and clients in France and abroad.
• A tailor-made career accelerator: A full member of human-sized teams, you will be mentored and supervised by our project managers but also our partners. Throughout your career and thanks to real HR support, you will have the opportunity to manage your career according to your desires: Specialization option, training, international experience and more!
  
  

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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