Senior Analyst - BCG Vantage, People & Organization

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group GmbH is seeking a Senior Analyst for our People & Organization practice in Riyadh. You will work on large-scale transformation projects, contributing analysis and insights to help clients redesign their organizations and operating models.

You'll help create strong client impact, support knowledge assets, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across borders. Travel to client sites is expected to understand requirements and deliver tailored solutions.

Qualifications

• 1–2+ years of consulting experience in organization design and activation preferred.
• 2+ years of industry experience acceptable; 3–6+ years preferred.
• Strong understanding of organizational theory and design principles.
• Proficiency in change management and project management.
• Proven track record in leading organizational design projects.
• Experience in cross-functional and multinational team environments.
• Bachelor's Degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Fluency in Arabic and English.
• Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to activation of organizational design strategies and target operating models.
• Support commercialization efforts for organization activation projects.
• Help develop intellectual property & assets and onboard/train junior colleagues.
• Travel to serve clients onsite during staffing assignments to understand requirements and design solutions.

Skills

Problem solving

Presentation skills

Team collaboration

Agile working

Curiosity and creativity

Navigating ambiguity

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

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 Senior Analyst (SA) in a Client Focused role within BCG's People & Organization Practice Area, you will work in a growing global team, delivering value to clients via individual expertise and/or institutionalized knowledge assets (products, tools, data, workshops, frameworks, surveys, domain‑specific data and related expertise, etc.). You will contribute on large‑scale transformation cases and proposals by contributing relevant analysis and insights and help create strong impact for the client. While contributing to client cases, workshops and proposals, travel to serve clients onsite during staffing assignments is expected to understand client requirements, and design / develop solutions.

You will also support commercialization efforts for implementation of organization activation projects, working in conjunction with business leaders, through:

• Contributing to the activation of organizational design strategies, target operating models.
• Streamlining and enhancing organizational processes for efficiency and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Facilitating the adoption of new organizational designs, acting as a bridge between strategy and operational reality.
• Collaborating across teams to manage change effectively, ensuring smooth transitions and maintaining team cohesion.
• Providing targeted tools and support for role adaptation and skills development, empowering individuals for success in the new framework.

Additionally, as a Senior Analyst, you will contribute to developing intellectual property & assets for the business and will assist in onboarding and training junior colleagues based on your expertise.

In the People and Organization Practice Area, we focus on Organization Design/Activation & Operating Model, Talent and Skills, and Culture and Change Management. Within Organization Activation, we guide the process of organizational restructuring, from streamlining processes to facilitating the integration of new operating models. As a Senior Analyst, you will support across all domains, with a specific focus on Organization Activation.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Helping solve client problems through formulating relevant research and/or analytical approaches in organization activation by applying your deep understanding of organizational dynamics to activate and implement strategic designs
• Building client‑ready deliverables in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
• Collecting, synthesizing, and analyzing case team learnings and outputs to develop new proprietary knowledge assets
• Communicating with case teams and client team members, in a credible and confident way
• Working collaboratively and effectively in a group dynamic, in‑person or virtually; proficient in agile ways of working.
• Being flexible and bringing a curious and creative mindset, open to new things and able to propose innovative ideas.
• Navigating complexity and ambiguity

What You'll Bring

• 1‑2+ years of consulting experience in relevant to organization design and activation strongly preferred
• In lieu of consulting experience, 2+ years minimum industry experience required; 3‑6+ years of industry experience strongly preferred
• Strong understanding of organizational theory and design principles
• Proficiency in change management and project management
• Proven track record in leading organizational design projects
• Experience in cross‑functional and multinational team environments
• Bachelor's Degree required (advanced degree preferred)
• Fluency in Arabic and English
• Strong business acumen and problem‑solving capabilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Who You'll Work With

As a Client Focus member, you will work face to face with clients and with BCG Project Leaders, Associates and Consultants. In the period between cases, you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up a diverse pool of knowledge positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative knowledge careers.

Additional info

Vantage is a group of functional and/or industry experts leveraging deep domain knowledge to enable insight for case teams and clients. Members are affiliated to BCG Practice Areas, plugged into the strategic agenda and building and deploying leading edge IP data tools/assets to deliver insight.

BCG's Vantage Team members are staffed on cases and help co‑create insights with case teams and clients through expert perspectives on industry trends, delivery of proprietary data or tools in a particular function and complex research and analysis of market information. Members also support the PA’s business development and proposals and help to organize and codify the knowledge that enables BCG to deliver superior business value for its clients.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.