Global PA Product Strategy Senior Director-Data & Tools (Boston)

Locations : Boston | Atlanta | Canary Wharf

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What You'll Do

In today’s fast-changing business landscape, strategically leveraging data and tools is vital to enhancing BCG’s client offerings and fostering sustainable growth in a highly significant area for the firm. Our competitive edge is partly rooted in the breadth, depth, and excellence of our data assets and tools. BCG has adopted a new data and tools strategy to further develop world-class data assets and tools and invest in strategic areas and big bet opportunities. The rise of Generative AI further accelerates the need for seamless integration into this approach.

Key components of this strategy include:

• Establishing a Practice Area-led data and tool strategy, where each Practice Area (PA) manages its portfolio and makes investment decisions, supported by a cross-PA committee to handle overlaps.
• Setup of an enhanced Digital Factory (DF) to provide best-in-class technologies and platforms for PA tools & data assets.
• Implementing robust investment and governance frameworks to ensure high-quality product portfolios and their effective use by case teams.
• Leading a systematic and rigorous management of external data purchases for PAs with active portfolio management, unified purchasing and charge back mechanisms.

We are looking for a Global PA Product Strategy Senior Director – Digital Factory to bring the new Data and Tools strategy to life, and to engage with DF interfacing with Practice Areas, BCG Vantage and Digital Factory. The role will involve turning the strategic objectives into actionable plans, collaborating with leadership and teams from PAs, BCG Vantage and Digital Factory to drive clear progress and outcomes.

Responsibilities include:

• Overall strategic direction and priorities:
  • Engage closely with the Expertise & Knowledge Practice Area Leader and BCG Vantage Executive Director to convert priorities into actionable plans and initiatives
  • Develop a clear roadmap that translates these strategic priorities into action plans and operational processes, ensuring seamless execution within and across the Practice Areas
  • Work closely with the cross-PA Investment Committee to help identify high-potential big bets—areas with significant growth opportunities or innovation potential
• PA interface and delivery:
  • Act as a central point of contact for the PA portfolios, ensuring alignment with commercial value, managing long tail of assets, etc.
  • Engage with BCG Vantage Business Directors (VBDs), BCG Vantage Business PMs and PA Offer Managers and Directors on requests for maintenance and new builds
  • Prepare and report on performance metrics for PA product portfolios, including product updates, commercial performance, sunsetting, or new launches
• Manage demand across PAs towards Digital Factory
  • Engage with DF leadership and Tech PMs, to execute PA plans and collaborate with DF ensuring monitor outcome, quality, budget & asset usage/impact
  • Ensure Digital Function (DF) receives clear, well-prioritized requests that are aligned with PA needs, balancing innovation efforts with the maintenance of existing tools and solutions
  • Work with Digital Factory for smarter cross-asset data layers and integration to provide robust and scalable data platforms for PA offerings
• Link to the Data Layer team (associated with BCG’s Agile Toolkit and IT):
  • Act as a liaison between the Practice Areas (PAs), Digital Factory and the Data Layer team to ensure data storage, processing, and management platforms are aligned with current and future data-driven initiatives
  • Look for opportunities to integrate data across multiple PAs to create more unified and comprehensive assets that enhance BCG’s market offerings
• Systematic and fair external data management for PAs
  • Ensure that external data procurement aligns with BCG’s overall strategy, balancing costs and value while enabling PAs to access high-quality data sources efficiently
  • Manage the external data portfolio for PAs, including aspects such as assessment of value, prioritization, contract terms, and charge back mechanisms. For some data assets, partnering with the BCG team responsible for 3rd party data assets (the GECM team), may be required.
• Monitoring impact and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships
  • Establish clear and consistent metrics across PAs to measure the adoption and overall success of data and tool assets, ensuring that these metrics provide valuable insights into performance. Lead cross-functional meetings to drive progress, measure impact, and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Keep senior stakeholders informed about progress, challenges, and strategic decisions, ensuring alignment

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Strategic thinking and long-term planning
• Excellent influencing and change management
• Ability to operate cross-functional teams to drive towards strategic goals and concrete results
• Leadership of complex teams or projects
• Detail-oriented with a focus on implementation and impact measurement
• Effective and clear communication across all levels, both written and verbal
• Addressing challenges, especially in high-pressure, dynamic situations
• Building and nurturing robust relationships with both internal teams and external partners or stakeholders
• Are intellectually curious and enjoy learning new skills (e.g., Agile principles and technology capabilities)

What You'll Bring

• Total 14+ years real experience of leading large cross-functional teams and solving complex problems for business functions
• Proven leadership record with strong influence and relationship-building skills
• Extensive program or project management experience, particularly in technology delivery.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing large-scale projects
• Demonstrated ability to influence and communicate at all levels, from team members to executive leadership.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to influence across all levels
• Entrepreneurial spirit and comfort working within in rapidly changing environment
• Experience in consulting is a plus

Who You'll Work With

• Expertise & Knowledge Practice Area Leader
• BCG Vantage Executive Director
• Global Practice Management Senior/Executive Directors (GPMDs/XDs)
• Global BCG Vantage PA and Geo business Senior Directors
• Digital Factory teamData Layer team
• Q team

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