Manager - BCG Vantage, Asset / Investment Management (Financial Institutions) - Frankfurt

Manager - BCG Vantage, Asset / Investment Management (Financial Institutions) - Frankfurt, Germany

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 venturesand 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.

What You'll Do

As a Manager BCG Vantage on our Client Focus path within BCG's Financial Institutions Practice Area, you will work in a growing global team, delivering value to asset and wealth management clients via individual expertise in asset/investment management and institutionalized BCG knowledge and assets (products, tools, data, frameworks, surveys, domain-specific data and related expertise, etc.). You will contribute to proposals and cases through thought partnership in your area of expertise, deliver original analyses and insights helping drive strong impact with clients. While contributing to client cases, workshops and proposals, occasional travel to serve clients onsite during staffing assignments is expected to understand client requirements, and design / develop solutions.

You will support commercialization efforts for the Global Asset & Wealth Management sector, working in conjunction with business leaders, providing insights & advice for proposals and client workshops. Additionally, as a Manager BCG Vantage, you will lead development of intellectual property & assets for the business and mentor and guide junior colleagues based on your industry expertise.

BCGs Financial Institutions Practice Area helps clients navigate a rapidly evolving business landscape. We support clients in adapting to market evolutions, dynamic client expectations, digital disruption, and regulatory shifts. Within the Global Asset & Wealth Management sector specifically, we help firms develop differentiated value propositions, accelerate growth, optimize cost structures, and enhance client engagementconnecting strategy and technology to transform how organizations work and build lasting competitive advantage in an increasingly complex market.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Recognized as topic insider and thought partner, excelling at solving complex client problems through relevant analytical approaches and customized business solutions in the asset/investment management industry
• Inserting yourself into the business and establishing credibility by taking positions/drawing conclusions on a range of challenges
• Engaging senior stakeholders and client team members, delivering targeted, evidence-based insights that translate complex content into clear and compelling narratives tailored to stakeholder settings
• Managing projects with ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating business judgement and adaptability
• Coaching, and mentoring junior team members
• Working in an ever changing and complex environment, and comfortable with ambiguity and navigating a fast-paced environment

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in asset/investment management or as investment consultant required; 610+ years of relevant experience strongly preferred
• Familiarity with wealth management/private banking industry beneficial
• Bachelor's Degree with strong academic achievements required (advanced degree preferred)
• Strong business acumen, superior analytical & problem-solving skills, and conceptual capabilities
• Excellent PowerPoint & Excel skills and aptitude for leveraging and rapidly developing proficiency with AI-powered tools
• Fluency in English and German; French beneficial
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills

Who You'll Work With

As a Manager BCG Vantage on our Client Focus path , you will work face to face with clients and with BCG Project Leaders, Associates and Consultants. In the period between cases, you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up a diverse pool of BCG Vantage positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantage careers.

Additional info

BCG Vantage is a powerhouse of expertise, seamlessly embedded within Practice Areas and markets to drive extraordinary impact. It equips BCG case teams and clients with cutting-edge expertise, proprietary assets, actionable data, and transformative insights that empower our case teams and enable our clients to achieve their aspirations.

With global experts across 20 Practices, covering more than 100 topics, sectors and offers, plus four focused geographic markets, BCG Vantage delivers unparalleled depth and breadth of insight & expertise.

BCG Vantage consists of three career paths, each playing a crucial role in delivering value to clients, case teams and practice teams.

• Client Focus (Embedded Expertise)
  • Integrates into client-facing teams to deliver direct client impact through expertise, know-how, and proprietary tools and assets
• Topic Activation (Sector Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions)
  • Combines deep domain insights with our know-how and proprietary assets to address targeted challenges directly with clients and project teams; co-creates insights on industry trends and functional topics, proprietary data and tools, and teams to codify IP that all enables BCG to deliver excellent business value with its clients
• Research (Practice Topic and Sector-Aligned Research and Insights)
  • Delivers actionable research and insights tailored to the client projects needs; works with qualitative and quantitative data, conducts research and provides synthesized results from sources including commercial data, public and open source, company and industry research, macro-economic, commodities and trade data

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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