WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a Regional Business Senior Manager (EMESA) - Transactions & Integrations, you will have two focus areas within this role - a major and a minor.

Transactions & Integrations Regional Business Senior Manager - EMESA (Major):

You will be responsible for managing BCG’s EMESA Transactions & Integrations business, the hub for the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Carve-Out (C-O) and Post-Merger Integration (PMI) expertise within the Corporate Finance & Strategy (CFS) Practice Area (PA). The EMESA Business Senior Manager is a key member of T&I’s Management & Operations Team, and this person will be responsible for managing projects and operations of T&I, which includes but not limited to:

• Leadership support: Supporting EMESA T&I Leader with strategic planning and tracking progress on goals, including preparation for BCG PA and leadership meetings.

• Commercial operations: Monitoring large commercial opportunities, pipeline analyses, and competitive intelligence; improving commercial/proposal excellence, and managing our GTM analytics tool in EMESA.

• Business development: Managing priority sector commercial efforts, liaising with sector management team, ensuring calling programs are delivered and sector materials ready for client customization.

• People agenda: Managing EMESA T&I people initiatives, including liaising on staffing, consultant performance processes, mentorship, training, Expert Career Track & lateral recruitment, onboarding, and affiliation events (e.g., cadre meetings, happy hours, next generation events) .

• Innovation/IP development: Liaising with consulting teams, T&I Knowledge Team and BCG.X to facilitate the creation of innovative tools or products and ensure momentum of rollout to teams internally and externally

• Business operations: Planning, budgeting, reporting for T&I EMESA.

• Collaboration: Collaborating with Global T&I Director on priority initiatives; liaising with other EMESA PA Managers and Sector Managers to ensure T&I activities linked to Industry and Functional PAs.

Global M&A Senior Business Manager (Minor)

With the current M&A Global Leader sitting in EMESA, you will manage Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) globally within the CFS PA which includes but is not limited to:

• Leadership support: supporting Global M&A Leader with strategic planning, tracking progress on goals, and preparation of leadership meetings and broader BCG PA meetings. Assisting with quarterly connects with Global T&I Leader and M&A Leaders globally

• Commercial operations: monitoring of large commercial opportunities globally and ensuring the Global Leader stays up-to-date on the latest performance and pipeline

• Business development: leading/coordinating with the Business Development Manager the M&A Sector Capability Initiative to ensure we have relevant sector specific M&A materials ready for client discussions globally.

• People agenda: Managing M&A T&I people initiatives, including liaising on staffing, consultant performance processes, mentorship, training, Expert Career Track & lateral recruitment, new joiner onboarding, and affiliation (e.g., cadre meetings, happy hours, next generation events) .

• Innovation/IP development: overseeing global M&A Innovation Fund requests - working with T&I Knowledge Team and BCG.X to facilitate and foster the innovation of tools or products and ensure momentum of rollout to teams.

• Marketing: working closely with M&A Global Topic Leader and T&I Global Marketing Senior Manager on publication plans, external websites, video testimonials, etc.
  
  

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Stakeholder management: High capacity to interface and network with colleagues across different seniority levels, functional expertise, background, and capabilities. Ability to influence and collaborate with others to get the job done.

• Work Management, Organization & Planning: managing ambiguity with a high level of comfort. Autonomous self-starter with a strong work ethic, entrepreneurial drive and structured and organized approach. Proactive in anticipating stakeholder needs, with the ability to lead and execute complex projects. Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills.

• Communication, Interpersonal & Teaming: ability to engage with senior leaders with a wide range of leadership styles. Strong communication skills including influencing, facilitation, storytelling – both verbal and written. Ability to pivot and adjust as priorities shift

• Affiliation, communication and training: organizing internal/ external events and calls, develop agendas for meetings and preparing communication, coordinate calls, Virtual Trainings, LAB activities, own sector platforms, and develop all sector internal communications / newsletters on regular basis.

• Technical problem solving: ability to turn data into insights, to solve for complex problems from concept to final decision making. Ability to think creatively and find solutions that may not exist. Leading others in clarifying problems and developing solutions by building cross-PA partnerships.

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

• 8 - 10 years of relevant experience

• Master’s degree preferred, bachelor’s degree required

• Previous consulting or Chief of Staff experience preferred

• Previous experience as a senior consultant / project leader is a plus

• High motivation and interest in the M&A topic

• Strong work ethic, service-mentality, autonomous self-starter, and team player

• ​​​​​​​Strong interpersonal skills, credibility

• Experience in business operations within large, multifaceted global team environments

• Ability to resolve complex issues and non-defined problems autonomously, with full business acumen

• Ability to influence senior members of the topic / sector and beyond

• Ability to respect sensitive client, BCG, and people related information as personal and confidential

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent proficiency in PowerPoint, Word and Excel

Practice Area Management & Operations team members keep BCG’s industry and functional practice areas operating responsively and efficiently. As a member of this team, you will contribute directly to the success of our business through a number of roles, including content development, process management, marketing, meeting and conference management, and internal/external communications