Expert Project Leader, Associate Director - Chicago, United States - Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group

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Chicago, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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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.

Practice Area Profile:

BCG's Insurance Practice serves four industry sectors: [1] Life insurance, [2] Property & Casualty, [3] Commercial & Reinsurance and [4] Health, as well as Insurance brokerage firms.

The practice works on the full range of issues of concern to top management, from strategy to operating model redesign, [5] digital transformation, cost, process improvement, [6] risk management strategy, asset management, product development, customer focus, and sales force effectiveness.

We have a strong global network and "on-the-ground" experience in all major markets.

The Global Practice currently comprises over 200 senior staff and works in Europe, Middle East, the Americas, and Asia Pacific, with a total of 44 insurance active offices worldwide.

Our client base is the world's leading global and regional insurance and reinsurance companies and investment and wealth managers.

The members of the Insurance Team combine relevant regulatory, technical and analytical know-how with the BCG core competencies: planning, steering and strategy for top management.

We help companies identify and develop growth opportunities that reshape the future of the Insurance industry. We discover new avenues for value creation and provide process support during times of business transformation.

All of our work is underpinned by the tracking of megatrends in the industry and the publication of thought leadership.

What You'll Do:

WHAT WE NEED

BCG is looking for an Expert Project Leader or Expert Associate Director focused in Life Insurance & Annuities to join our Insurance team and work alongside some of the world's top minds in the industry.

You will play a critical role in the growth of our Insurance practice through case execution, client development, and intellectual property and product creation.

The Life & Annuities sector is entering a new era as changing needs and expectations place new demands on existing players.

You will create value for our clients with forward-thinking solutions that help them address the operational, technical, and financial implications of changes in their business environment.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
As an Expert in the Insurance practice, you will have three broad roles:

Contribute to the business development of the insurance sector:

Contribute to and drive leads and proposals together with the partners of the practice
Lead development of proposals from endtoend where life & annuities expertise is critical
Engage with the development of additional business beyond the delivery of recommendations on client engagements
Develop the topic agenda, create respective content, and foster awareness of BCG's competence

Build expertise in our insurance sector (Life & Annuities sub-segment) within BCG and increase BCG's profile externally:

Develop and contribute to BCG's intellectual capital
work on BCG content projects to create new techniques and/or capture new ideas
Build and maintain "fast packs" related to specific life insurance and/or annuities topics so there is an everavailable library of educational materials for internal and client usage
Responsible for supporting the insurance sector in writing external reports, papers, social media contributions of its partners in concert with the INS practice's marketing lead
Identify conferences for BCG's attendance and help coordinate our participation

Lead and support execution of insurance projects:

Work jointly with BCG and client project leaders, bring expertise to the team, both on issues specific to the industry and on questions asked by the client
Ensure the quality of the work, and the relevance of any synthesis and recommendations. Challenge work in progress, results, and reorient any analyses if needed

Our Expert Consulting Track (ECT)

The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG's ability to successfully meet our clients' demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities.

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