Senior Analyst - Tourism Strategy - BCG Vantage

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Analyst to join their dynamic team focused on tourism and infrastructure. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with clients, leveraging expertise to drive impactful solutions. You will engage in a collaborative environment, contributing to case work and proposals while developing intellectual property for the business. If you are passionate about tourism strategy and have a strong consulting background, this position offers a chance to make a significant impact in a global setting, working with diverse teams and clients to tackle complex challenges.

Qualifications

• 2+ years consulting experience in tourism, travel, or hospitality required.
• Fluency in English required; Arabic preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver value to clients through analysis and insights.
• Support commercialization efforts and contribute to proposals.

Skills

Consulting Experience

Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Business Acumen

Client Management

Research and Analytical Skills

Team Collaboration

Flexibility

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced Degree

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 BCG Vantage In a Client Focus role within BCG’s Travel, Cities and Infrastructure Practice Area, you will work in a growing global team, delivering value to clients via individual expertise and/or institutionalized BCG Vantage assets (products, tools, data, workshops, frameworks, surveys, domain-specific data and related expertise, etc.). You will contribute on cases and proposals by providing relevant analysis and insights and help case teams create strong impact for the client. While contributing to client cases, workshops and proposals, occasional travel to serve clients onsite during staffing assignments is expected to understand client requirements, and design / develop solutions.

You will support commercialization efforts for the topic/sector working, in conjunction with business leaders, through contributing analysis and insights to proposals, client workshops and marketing materials. Additionally, as a Senior Analyst BCG Vantage, you will contribute to developing intellectual property & assets for the business and assist in onboarding and training junior colleagues based on your topic/sector expertise.

Specifically, you will be part of the Cities, Regions and Tourism sector where you will help work on Tourism topics. The CRT Tourism topic works with clients on a wide variety of topics, including tourism strategy, governance, value proposition creation, people and organization, marketing, branding, and social impact and sustainability.

What You’ll Bring

• 2+ years of consulting experience in tourism, travel or hospitality required; candidates with consulting experience strongly preferred (We are open to considering candidates with consulting experience from top management consulting firms, general consulting firms, and boutique firms)
• In lieu of consulting experience, 3+ years minimum industry experience required; 4-6+ years of industry experience strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree required (advanced degree preferred)
• Fluency in English required; Fluency in Arabic preferred
• Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

You’re Good At

• Operating comfortably in a client-facing role, managing demanding internal and external clients in a time-limited and problem-solving environment
• Building strong relationships and demonstrating ability to bring value to teams at all stages of business development and case work; at times leading business development and proposal work
• Managing and communicating with senior internal and external stakeholders and demonstrating the ability to present and engage your audience effectively
• Solving client problems through formulating relevant research and/or analytical approaches in tourism; incl. developing structured, clear and engaging stories and materials for clients
• Being a self-starter with strong, flexible work ethic with the ability to work autonomously and independently in a global and multicultural team
• Working and teaming collaboratively in a group dynamic (often virtual) with proficiency in agile ways of working
• Operating effectively in a matrix organization and having the ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity
• Quickly adapting to new and innovative ideas, picking up complex concepts and understanding international development trends and issues across a range of topics and sectors

Who You’ll Work With

As a Senior Analyst BCG Vantage, 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 BCG Vantage positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantage careers.

Additional Info

BCG Vantage is a powerhouse of expertise, seamlessly embedded within Practice Areas and markets to drive extraordinary impact. It equips BCG case teams and clients with cutting-edge expertise, proprietary assets, actionable data, and transformative insights that empower our case teams and enable our clients to achieve their aspirations.

With global experts across 20 Practices, covering more than 100 topics, sectors and offers, plus four focused geographic markets, BCG Vantage delivers unparalleled depth and breadth of insight & expertise. BCG Vantage consists of three career paths, each playing a crucial role in delivering value to clients, case teams and practice teams.

Client Focus (Embedded Expertise)

• Integrates into client-facing teams to deliver direct client impact through expertise, know-how, and proprietary tools and assets

Topic Activation (Sector Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions)

• Combines deep domain insights with our know-how and proprietary assets to address targeted challenges directly with clients and project teams; co-creates insights on industry trends and functional topics, proprietary data and tools, and teams to codify IP that all enables BCG to deliver excellent business value with its clients

Research (Practice Topic and Sector-Aligned Research and Insights)

• Delivers actionable research and insights tailored to the client projects needs; works with qualitative and quantitative data, conducts research and provides synthesized results from sources including commercial data, public and open source, company and industry research, macro-economic, commodities and trade data.

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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