Centre for Growth Qualitative Analyst Senior Manager (9-12 Month FTC) Full Time

Boston Consulting Group

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What You’ll Do

As the qualitative analyst senior manager at the Centre for Growth you will play a pivotal role in helping to achieve its aim of sparking conversations, ideas and actions that have the potential for major positive impact on the UK’s growth and prosperity. You will have a specific focus on qualitative research and analysis, particularly helping us to drive the research agenda for BCG in London. You will independently lead deep dive research on behalf of the Centre and take a lead in managing the end-to-end delivery of our research outputs.

BCG’s Centre for Growth has three key roles:

1. Bringing the best of BCG to external audiences, from clients to policymakers, with the aim of driving action to boost economic growth – this often means partnering with internal or external experts on pieces of deep dive research and/or convening leaders across the public and private sector to drive discussion and action on a particular issue.
2. Leading BCG’s macroeconomic work in the UK – this includes supporting CEOs, CFOs and leadership teams to help them understand what the current economic outlook means for them and leveraging our deep understanding of their businesses and macroeconomic trends to connect the dots for them.
3. Providing expert and advisory input to client teams on economic topics – this ranges from supporting client teams with macroeconomic or policy analysis to providing expert input on the outlook for a particular sector of the economy, across both public and private sectors.

As the qualitative analyst senior manager at the Centre for Growth you will have a direct role in delivering our ambition to:

• Take a leading role in positioning BCG as the recognised leading voice and perspective in the UK market on key topics, with a specific focus on providing the qualitative underpinning for our work.
• Play a leadership role as the Centre seeks to drive UK growth and advantage by orchestrating breakthroughs in ideas and action that lead to material shifts and change, with a focus on driving economic growth.
• Lead our push to build both external and internal networks and partnerships to aid the impact of the Centre’s work. This will form the basis of our push for expansion, both in terms of depth and geographic focus (from being purely UK focused to include parts of Europe).
• By directly representing your qualitative research externally and internally raise BCG’s profile and brand among C-suite executives and other industry, government, and community leaders.
• Present to external stakeholders on all aspects of our work.
• Develop high quality conversations with clients and potential clients on key topics impact their sectors and the wider market.
• In this role you will work in partnership with the Senior Director of the Centre for Growth as they work with a variety of practice areas and global experts to leverage BCG’s capabilities to put our firm at the centre of national discussion about issues of critical importance to the future of the UK. This will include:
• Help to drive BCG Centre for Growth agenda & profile.
• Lead the end to end development of up to 4 priority research topics per year – from idea creation to research to sustained external engagement – with a view to having a significant impact on the public debates around UK growth and competitive advantage. Within this you will be personally responsible for leading the qualitative aspects of our research.
• Manage teams put in place to drive research on priority topics, including overseeing multiple workstreams as well as driving your own. Own and direct the qualitative analysis and research across all of the Centre’s workstreams.
• Take the lead in driving partnerships with different BCG practice area teams to identify and act on opportunities to leverage the Centre as a platform to support/amplify broader range of commercial priorities and thought leadership (beyond 2-4 focus topics each year). This includes identifying opportunities to bring new data and insight to clients.
• Develop new products to showcase the Centre’s analysis for both internal and external audiences.
• Directly represent BCG in public conversation and movement around key topics through regular social media dialogue, op-eds, interviews, etc. alongside more formal reports.

You’re good at

• In depth qualitative analysis and academic level research, including understanding the impact of policy changes on economic outcomes
• Compiling, cleaning and analysing inputs to support and evidence your research
• Driving and delivering outputs autonomously, but happy to collaborate
• In depth analysis and creating coherent messaging from complex topic matters
• Networking and collaborating with a willingness to help drive the creation of coalitions to support the aims of the Centre for Growth
• Clear communication of complex topics with the ability to adapt both written and verbal communications for different audiences
• Thinking outside the box and applying different analytical lenses to problems, you’re able to identify novel solutions to challenges that are tailored to a specific target audience
• Managing fast paced workstreams and supporting the development of internal BCG secondees into the Centre
• You enjoy learning new skills and are comfortable rapidly getting up to speed on abstract and sometimes technical topics while retaining a clear vision of the bigger picture

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years experience of working in consulting, the civil service, think tanks, academia or similar roles with a specific qualitative research aspect.
• Expert knowledge of qualitative research methods and a proven track record of developing
• Experience of navigating economic databases and analysing large datasets
• Experience of researching and authoring analysis on fast moving topics
• Ideally experience of working in both the private and public sector, or at least has a good understanding of both spheres
• Experience managing and directing a small team delivering on tight timelines

Please note this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change.

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