Project Leader, Consumer/Retail

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Practice Area

BCG’s Consumer Practice creates breakthrough strategies for clients across all consumer sectors, including Consumer products, Fashion & Luxury, and Retail. Our aspiration: BCG as the most influential company in the global consumer industry. The consumer environment and consumer behaviors are fundamentally changing as innovation and ecosystems continue to evolve. We work collaboratively to create profound and competitive impact at marquee clients. Inventing the future with the most-industry shaping ideas and capabilities.

What You'll Do As a member of our consulting team, you will manage the design and development of long-term business strategies for fashion and luxury clients in the areas of go-to-market strategy, operating model design, organizational design, and value creation in order to optimize revenue growth and organizational capability. Specific duties include: perform sophisticated market research, benchmarking, market sizing, modeling, forecasting, and decision analysis to identify growth opportunities; lead PMO structures for large-scale fashion and luxury transformations, including governance, milestone and risk tracking, and executive steering committee reporting; coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure disciplined, on-time program delivery; design and manage carve-out workplans for fashion and luxury brands, including separation of shared services, transitional service agreements, and Day 1/Day 2 readiness; guide clients through brand separations; develop brand licensing and partnership strategies for fashion and luxury clients, including licensee evaluation, royalty structuring, and white-space analysis; advise clients on optimizing licensing portfolios to grow revenue while protecting brand equity; design organizational structures and workforce strategies for fashion and luxury clients, including capability assessments, organization sizing, and change management planning; guide clients through transformations to improve organizational effectiveness; manage case team responsibilities including personnel assignments, research and analysis, and reports to clients; undertake critical evaluation of analytical work performed using advanced economics and financial analysis techniques; oversee and direct consultants and junior professional staff, and oversee project planning and preparation of outputs; and present findings to senior client management, and oversee business development and client relationships.

What You'll Bring The position requires a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Management, or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus three (3) years of experience as a management consultant or business analyst which must include at least one (1) year of experience providing business strategy recommendations focusing on operational efficiency and revenue growth to companies in the consumer and retail sectors. Specific skills/other requirements (quantitative experience requirement not applicable to this section) - must possess the following: analyzing brand positioning, price architecture, and competitive benchmarking across fashion and luxury segments, conducting trend and consumer sentiment analysis to identify white-space and growth opportunities, and evaluating wholesale versus DTC channel economics to inform go-to-market strategy; developing separation workplans and TSA structures for brand and business unit carve-outs, sequencing Day 1/Day 2 readiness across finance, IT, and HR functions, and identifying and mitigating stranded cost and operational continuity risks during separation; evaluating licensee capabilities and fit against brand equity and category criteria, structuring royalty rates, minimum guarantees, and contract terms, and conducting geographic and category white-space analysis to prioritize licensing expansion opportunities; analyzing spans of control, layers, and role design to diagnose organizational efficiency, developing organizational sizing models and workforce transition plans to support restructuring, and designing change management and communication plans to support adoption of new operating models; applying advanced economic and financial analysis theories including competitive cost and decision analysis, capabilities assessment, portfolio review based on financial reports, and experience and scale curve analysis; conducting advanced analysis of scale economies, seasonal effects on financial forecasts, impact of uncertainties on business outcomes, corporate financing policies, and evaluation of factors that influence a company's debt capacity; and managing individuals, teams and processes.

Additional info Multiple positions available. Applicants will only be considered for New York, New York office location. Partial telecommute benefit available. Must report to and reside within commutable distance of the listed BCG office. Domestic/international travel required (up to 80%) based on client/company need. M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 45+ hours per week. Salary range: $225,400.00 - $252,900.00 per year.

In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.

At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees – and their eligible family members.* That’s zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:

• Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
• Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs.
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually.
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
• Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not.
• Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.

*Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.

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