Global Strategic Projects Director

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group is seeking a Strategic Projects Director to shape and deliver high-impact, cross-functional initiatives within the Expertise Advantage Practice Area, including BCG Vantage and the Expert Career Track. This senior role combines strategic framing with hands-on execution across complex workstreams in a matrixed environment.

You will own end-to-end delivery, drive AI-enabled transformation, and support senior leaders with analyses and executive-ready materials to ensure

Qualifications

• 10–12 years of relevant experience in strategy, management consulting, or a comparable strategic role.
• Experience with cross-functional initiatives is essential.
• Experience contributing to operating model change and/or AI-enabled transformation is strongly preferred.
• Strong business judgment and ability to connect strategic intent to operational reality.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and comfort working with senior executives.
• Ability to collaborate across cultures, functions, and levels of seniority.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic delivery: own and deliver end-to-end, cross-functional initiatives aligned with the roadmap for Expertise Advantage.
• AI and operating model transformation: support AI adoption across Expertise and Knowledge in line with the AI strategy.
• Hands-on execution: drive analyses, syntheses, and executive-ready materials.
• Own complex workstreams: manage multiple parallel initiatives with ambiguity and prioritization.
• Translate strategy into action: convert high-level objectives into executable plans with milestones and owners.
• Senior leadership support: act as a trusted partner to senior leaders and support governance forums.
• Insight generation: conduct strategic, financial, and performance analyses to inform priorities and course correction.

Skills

Independent ownership

Strategic problem-solving

Hands-on delivery

Executive communication

Working in a matrix

Managing competing priorities

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, or related field

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Who We Are

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.

What You'll Do

As a Strategic Projects Director, you will shape and deliver high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that advance the priorities of the Expertise Advantage Practice Area, comprising BCG Vantage and the Expert Career Track. Reporting to the Expert Consulting Track and Global Strategic Projects Senior Director, you will operate at the heart of the Expertise Advantage leadership agenda, helping ensure the function’s most important priorities translate into sustained execution.

This role sits at the intersection of delivery, operating model evolution, and AI-enabled transformation. You will own and drive initiatives that support the continued evolution of Expertise Advantage’s operating model and accelerate the AI transformation of Expertise and Knowledge, in line with BCG’s broader firmwide efforts.

This is a senior individual contributor role with a strong emphasis on end-to-end delivery. You will lead complex initiatives from framing through execution, combining sound judgment with hands‑on ownership. In parallel, you will provide a targeted leadership-support and rapid problem-solving, helping ensure the Expertise Advantage leadership team are well prepared for firm-level discussions and decision forums.

Success in this role requires structured thinking, strong execution capability, and the ability to influence without authority—mobilizing cross-functional teams and partners across the organization to drive outcomes in a matrixed environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategic delivery: Own and deliver end-to-end, cross-functional initiatives aligned with the Strategic Projects roadmap for the Expertise Advantage Practice Area, with a particular focus on operating model evolution and AI-enabled transformation.
• AI and operating model transformation: Support initiatives that enable the adoption of AI across Expertise and Knowledge, in partnership with the relevant teams, to support new ways of working, role evolution, and scalable impact in line with BCG’s overall AI strategy.
• Hands-on execution: Personally drive analyses, syntheses, and executive-ready materials, balancing big-picture strategy with the practical work required to move initiatives forward.
• Own complex workstreams: Independently manage multiple parallel initiatives with ambiguity, exercising strong judgment on prioritization, scope, and trade-offs.
• Translate strategy into action: Convert high-level strategic objectives into clear, executable plans with defined milestones, owners, and success metrics.
• Senior leadership support: Act as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders across Expertise Advantage, supporting decision making and ensuring leaders are well prepared for firm-level leadership discussions, updates, and governance forums.
• Insight generation: Conduct targeted strategic, financial, and performance analyses (in partnership with Finance and other teams) to inform priorities, monitor progress, and support course correction as needed.

You’re Good At

• Independent ownership: Taking full accountability for complex initiatives, from strategic framing through execution, with limited oversight.
• Strategic problem-solving: Tackling ambiguous, high-stakes questions using a structured, data-driven approach.
• Hands-on delivery: Rolling up your sleeves to develop analyses, narratives, and materials that drive decisions and action.
• Executive communication: Synthesizing complex topics into clear, concise, and action-oriented messages for senior audiences.
• Working in a matrix: Building trust-based relationships and navigating organizational complexity to mobilize progress across teams.
• Managing competing priorities: Delivering results under tight timelines while balancing multiple demands.

What You'll Bring

• 10–12 years of relevant experience in strategy, management consulting, or a comparable strategic role, with strong exposure to complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated success operating as a senior individual contributor, balancing strategic thinking with hands‑on execution.
• Experience contributing to operating model change and/or AI-enabled transformation is strongly preferred.
• Strong business judgment, with the ability to connect strategic intent to operational reality.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills and comfort working closely with senior executives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, or a related field; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across cultures, functions, and levels of seniority.

Who You'll Work With

You will report to the Strategic Projects Senior Director and sit within the Expertise Advantage Practice Area, encompassing BCG Vantage and the Expert Career Track. You will work closely with senior leaders across Expertise Advantage, the Global Practice Areas, and adjacent teams, as well as functional, regional, and finance partners.

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. BCG is an E - Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.