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Roles & Responsibilities

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.

Practice Area

The Global Advantage is one of BCG's core functional practice areas with a unique commercial offering and a long tradition of cutting-edge thought leadership. Being at the crossroads of emerging and mature markets, we work with our clients to unlock unparalleled business opportunities offered by globalization while mastering the challenges of disruption. We help clients not only build sizable international footprints but also maximize their potential in the face of global disruptive forces such as rapidly changing markets, geopolitical environment, rising local competitors as well as shifting customer behavior and preferences. In our daily work, we enable our clients to transform their organization in order to win globally.

What You'll Do

As an Expert Project Leader at BCG, you will manage project teams, providing strategic advice to clients on geopolitics, global trade, and critical investment decisions. Your focus will include advising on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Special Economic Zones (SEZs), cluster development strategies, and trade promotion. You will collaborate closely with senior stakeholders in both public and private sectors, offering guidance on supply chain localisation and infrastructure development to drive economic growth and competitiveness.

You will lead project teams to deliver robust trade and investment strategies, advising clients on geopolitical risks, trade investment decisions, FDI, SEZs, and economic cluster initiatives. Additionally, you will leverage your expertise in supply chain localisation and infrastructure projects to ensure informed decision-making and effective implementation.

Our Expert Consulting Track

The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG s ability to successfully meet our clients demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities. Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges. Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to bring the best of BCG to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting.

What You'll Bring

+8 years of professional experience, including managerial roles.

Expertise in at least one area from each of the following two subsets:

Geopolitics, Trade Promotion, Trade Defence, Trade Risk & Compliance, Intersection of Climate Regulations & Trade, Supply Chain and Operations

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Strategy, Cluster Development, Export Promotion, Investment Promotion

Experience ideally combining:

Consulting experience within a high-calibre organization, including proficiency in project management, content development, and presentations.

Private-sector experience in strategy, international business, operations, investment promotion, or international expansion of major firms.

Public sector experience at regional or national levels, especially in foreign/trade policy, investment promotion, or infrastructure projects.

Experience in emerging markets preferred but not mandatory.

Education:

MBA or Master s degree from a top-tier institute with a strong academic record.

Professional Skills & Other Attributes:

Strong client service orientation and commercial awareness.

Proven ability to interact and manage senior stakeholders.

Excellent analytical, structured, and problem-solving skills (hypothesis-driven approach, quantitative analysis).

Ability to translate policy impacts into strategic business insights.

Demonstrated leadership experience in project and team management.

Strong capability in developing high-quality client presentations.

Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.

Excellent written and spoken English.

Intercultural competence and experience working internationally or in multicultural teams are strongly preferred.

Expert Project Leader - Trade & Investments The Boston Consulting Group

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