Overview
Global Digital Strategy Manager – Lisbon, Portugal
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.
What You’ll Do
In this role, you will drive the structure, governance, and execution of BCG’s global digital products investment process, ensuring a consistent, transparent, and high-quality approach to how BCG globally plans, approves and tracks funding for its in-house digital products. Acting as the central orchestrator, you will help design, optimize, and increasingly automate core workflows across Digital Product, Finance, and Transformation teams. This includes defining scalable funding approval processes, setting timelines, and embedding digital tools and AI-enabled solutions to reduce manual effort for the investment governance team and enhance decision quality for BCGs global leadership team. You will design and continuously improve templates, frameworks, and guidance to the teams who develop and maintain digital products at BCG to ensure they submit clear, decision-ready materials on objectives, resource requirements, risks, and expected business outcomes for their Digital Products to BCG’s global leadership team.
In this role, you will manage the end-to-end cadence of key governance forums (e.g., Annual and Quarterly Business Reviews), ensuring submissions meet required standards and deadlines, and provide the content that is required for BCG’s leadership team to make decisions on what Digital Products to fund and for what business outcome. You will also leverage automation and AI tools to improve how submissions are aggregated, tracked, and analyzed. Additionally, you will track business outcomes of funded Digital Products, including monitoring progress against milestones, managing financial updates, and assessing budget implications based on progress status. You will proactively identify opportunities to enhance visibility on BCG’s global Digital Products portfolio through automated dashboards, integrations, and workflow tools, enabling more real-time and data-driven decision-making.
What You’ll Bring
What You’ll Bring
A minimum of 5–7 years of relevant experience (Professional services preferred)
Ability to navigate ambiguity and financial analyses
Highly organized and proactive approach to managing work in a dynamic environment
Experience with workflow automation, process optimization, or digital tools (e.g., Claude, n8n, Power Automate, or similar) strongly preferred
Familiarity with AI tools and their application in business processes (e.g. automation, reporting, decision support) is a strong plus
Excellent written communication in English
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to interact with internal and external senior stakeholders while working in a global collaborative team environment
Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred)
You’re Good At
Communicating clearly and proactively, setting expectations and ensuring alignment across diverse, global stakeholders
Balancing attention to detail with a big-picture mindset, ensuring both quality of inputs and relevance to strategic priorities
Building trusted relationships
Creating structure out of complexity, designing processes , templates, and ways of working from scratch that drive clarity, consistency, and efficiency
Driving execution with rigor, managing timelines, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring high-quality outputs are delivered on time
Thinking in systems and workflows, with a mindset toward continuous improvement and automation
You’re Excited About
Learning how to use digital tools, APIs, and AI-enabled solutions to holistically reshape processes and content creation, and are willing to get out of your comfort zone to continuously learn and improve on these technical abilities
Taking a blank-page approach to shaping your own role, critically thinking to how your role best contributes to team outcomes
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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