Global BI&A Business Partner Manager

Boston Consulting Group; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group in Lisbon seeks a Global Business Partner within BI&A to scale strategic partnerships across internal clients. You will build trusted relationships, navigate ambiguity, and connect business needs with analytics, AI, and automation capabilities to drive impact.

This role combines strategic portfolio management with cross-functional collaboration in a fast-paced environment, with in-person collaboration expected around 50% of time.

Qualifications

• Experience building trusted relationships with business stakeholders across complex organizations.
• Ability to translate business challenges into practical, tech-enabled solutions.
• Proven track record in strategic portfolio management and user-centric thinking.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and guiding stakeholders to outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary relationship manager for internal partners, understanding priorities and operating models.
• Act as consultative advisor by recommending analytics, AI, automation, products, and services.
• Facilitate prioritization, roadmap planning, and capability discussions aligned with BI&A strategy.
• Partner with delivery leaders and technical teams to translate priorities into solutions.
• Coordinate cross-functional engagement to solve business challenges and drive alignment.
• Communicate priorities, dependencies, and recommendations with clarity and credibility.
• Apply consultative engagement to strengthen stakeholder partnerships and outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to improve engagement and processes as BI&A matures.
• Collaborate with the Global Business Partner Director on strategic initiatives while growing your portfolio.

Skills

Stakeholder mgmt

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Analytics thinking

Adaptability

Portuguese/English

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced 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.

Enterprise Services (ES) was established in 2022 to provide efficient, resilient, and scalable services to support the evolving needs and complexities of a more digital BCG. ES brings together business-critical operations - such as Business Intelligence & Analytics, Procurement & Payables, Global Finance Operations, and Executive Support Services - alongside specialist expertise including Real Estate, Travel, and Meetings & Events. United by a common service mindset, ES enables every BCGer to focus on the work that matters most by giving time and energy back through streamlined, reliable service delivery. In doing so, ES creates cost advantage and strengthens BCG’s market differentiation, while reducing risk through consistent controls and business continuity. Through scalable platforms and globally integrated ways of working across our strategic core global hubs, Enterprise Services enhances agility and helps unlock the potential of those who advance the world.

What You’ll Do

Business Intelligence & Analytics (BI&A) is at the forefront of BCG’s transformation into an AI-first enterprise. We partner across the firm to simplify information delivery, unlock advanced insights, and deliver data, analytics, automation, and AI-powered capabilities that help our business leaders make faster, more informed decisions. From global analytics platforms to next-generation AI-enabled experiences, BI&A is shaping the future of enterprise decision-making.

As BI&A continues to evolve, so does the way we engage with our partners within the firm. As a Global Business Partner, you’ll play a key role in scaling BI&A’s strategic business partnership capability by serving as the trusted advisor for an assigned portfolio of internal partners. You’ll build strong relationships, help stakeholders navigate ambiguity, and connect business challenges with the right BI&A capabilities while contributing to a consistent, consultative engagement model across the organization.

Success in this role comes from building trusted partnerships, understanding business priorities, and helping stakeholders identify the right combination of analytics, AI, automation, products, services, and technology capabilities to achieve their goals. You’ll independently manage a portfolio of business relationships while partnering closely with the Global Business Partner Director on BI&A’s most strategic enterprise engagements, helping shape a new capability while accelerating your own professional growth.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary relationship manager for an assigned portfolio of internal partners, developing trusted relationships and a deep understanding of their business priorities, objectives, and operating models.
• Act as a consultative advisor by helping stakeholders evaluate business challenges and recommending the most effective combination of analytics, AI, automation, products, services, and technology capabilities.
• Facilitate prioritization, roadmap planning, and capability discussions that align business needs with BI&A strategy and enterprise priorities.
• Partner closely with delivery leaders, architects, and technical teams to ensure business priorities are clearly understood and translated into actionable solutions.
• Coordinate cross-functional engagement by bringing together the right BI&A expertise to solve business challenges and drive alignment across teams.
• Communicate priorities, dependencies, trade-offs, and recommendations with clarity, transparency, and credibility.
• Apply BI&A’s consultative engagement model to strengthen stakeholder partnerships, improve business outcomes, and deliver a consistent customer experience.
• Identify opportunities to improve stakeholder engagement, relationship management practices, and operating processes as the Global Business Partnership capability continues to mature.
• Partner with the Global Business Partner Director on the firm’s most strategic and complex initiatives while independently owning and growing your portfolio of business relationships.

What You’ll Bring

• 6+ years of experience facilitating prioritization, roadmap planning, portfolio discussions, or similar strategic planning activities across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience building trusted relationships with business stakeholders across complex, cross-functional organizations.
• Strong business and technical acumen, with the ability to translate business challenges into practical, technology-enabled solutions while evaluating trade-offs across analytics, AI, automation, products, and services.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, balance competing priorities, and guide stakeholders toward thoughtful, outcome-oriented decisions.
• Excellent communication, consulting, facilitation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Curiosity and a continuous learning mindset, with enthusiasm for exploring new technologies and helping organizations leverage analytics, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Experience working collaboratively across business and technical teams in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Who You’ll Work With

You’ll join Business Intelligence & Analytics (BI&A), a global team partnering across BCG to deliver data, analytics, automation, and AI-powered capabilities that enable better business decisions.

In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with business leaders across Client Team & Client View, Finance, Practice Area Operations, BCG X, Enterprise Services, and other enterprise functions to understand priorities, guide planning discussions, and strengthen BI&A’s partnerships across the firm. You’ll also work alongside BI&A leadership, architects, technical teams, and delivery leaders to connect business needs with scalable technology solutions.

As part of BI&A’s Global Business Partnership capability, you’ll play an important role in helping establish a consistent, consultative engagement model while building trusted partnerships that enable BI&A to deliver greater strategic value across the organization.

Additional info

At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person collaboration plays an important role in our culture, mentorship, and professional development.

For this role, you will generally be expected to work from a BCG office or in person with clients on a regular basis (typically around 50% of working time), depending on business needs and in line with local policies and practices.

We aim to provide a dynamic and collaborative environment that fosters connection and teamwork.

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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