Project Leader - Transform Strategy

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Paris; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group is seeking a Project Leader in Paris to join our Transform practice, advising on performance improvement, turnaround, and large-scale transformations. You will work alongside senior decision-makers to shape and deliver impactful change.

Embedded in BCG Transform, you’ll build strong client relationships, support restructuring initiatives, and contribute to business development. Fluent French and English, leadership and a track record in complex transformations are

Qualifications

• Over 7 years of work experience in turnaround and restructuring.
• Track record leading corporate and financial restructuring projects.
• Experience managing multiple client and stakeholder relationships and networking within client organizations.
• Interpersonal skills to partner with executive management teams implementing a new vision.
• Collaborative team player with international work experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in French and English.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to BCG Transform’s growth in operational and financial restructuring through active case work, client relations, and creating valuable IP and products.
• Offer expertise in turnaround projects across various industries, emphasizing operational restructuring and immediate performance boosts.
• Analyze financials to assess situations and formulate quick action plans.
• Identify key immediate improvements and advocate for their adoption with company leaders.
• Collaborate with BCG and client teams, sharing knowledge both internally and on client sites.
• Lead intellectually by inspiring project teams with innovative ideas and frameworks for research and analysis.
• Engage in business growth activities through client interactions and participation in industry events.

Skills

Turnaround leadership

Restructuring

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis

Client relations

Leadership

International work

Job description

As a Project Leader within BCG’s Transform practice, you will work alongside leading industry experts to advise clients on performance improvement, turnaround, and large-scale transformation initiatives. You will collaborate directly with senior decision-makers, playing a key role in shaping and delivering impactful change.

Across diverse sectors, you will support organizations through critical moments of transformation. Most of your time will be spent embedded within dedicated BCG Transform team, working intensively with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and building strong, long-term client relationships and working on engagements like stress/distress situation and good to great large scale transformation projects

You will also dedicate time to further develop and deepen BCG’s expertise in restructuring and turnaround, as well as supporting BCG Partners in business development initiatives. On a day to day basis this will translate in:

• Contribute to BCG Transform’s growth in operational and financial restructuring through active case work, client relations, and creating valuable IP and products
• Offer expertise in turnaround projects across various industries, emphasizing operational restructuring and immediate performance boosts
• Analyze financials to assess situations and formulate quick action plans
• Identify key immediate improvements and advocate for their adoption with company leaders
• Collaborate with BCG and client teams, sharing knowledge both internally and on client sites
• Lead intellectually by inspiring project teams with innovative ideas and frameworks for research and analysis
• Engage in business growth activities through client interactions and participation in industry events.

What You'll Bring

• Over 7 years of work experience gained in a lateral environment with a focus on turnaround and restructuring topics
• A track record of leading corporate and financial restructuring projects
• Have experience actively managing multiple client and stakeholder relationships and networking within the client organization to understand their needs and help influence the client agenda
• Have the interpersonal skills to partner with executive management teams as they implement a new vision and passion for enabling leaders to drive change within organizations set you apart
• Be a collaborative team player with positive attitude, high ethical standards and experienced in international work
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in French and English, in addition to a strong presence and leadership skill

Who You’ll work with

Business Transformation is essential to adapt to ever-changing conditions, even for companies that are already dominating their markets. It’s a big challenge, but BCG’s business transformation consultants can help clients put the odds in their favor. BCG helps companies orchestrate an effective business transformation and turnaround when all signs point to the need for fast, focused action and when companies are grappling with an urgent need to change amid great disruption. We deliver immediate impact to each client’s bottom line, cash flow, and top-line growth, all while concentrating on what the client must do to sustain successful change far into the future. In addition, our special situation services help companies focus on managing their liquidity and capital. The goal? To strengthen their balance sheets, boost cash flows, and transition out of survival mode.

About us

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture theirgreatest 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 digitaland human capabilities. Our diverse, globalteams bring deep industryand functional expertise and a rangeof 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.

Equal opportunity

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state 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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