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What You'll Do

As a Manager - BCG Vantage on our Client Focus path within BCG's Energy Practice Area, you will work in a growing global team, delivering value to clients via individual expertise and/or institutionalized BCG Vantage assets (products, tools, data, workshops, frameworks, surveys, domain-specific data and related expertise, etc.). You will contribute on cases and proposals by contributing relevant analysis and insights and help case teams create strong impact for the client. 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 topic/sector working, in conjunction with business leaders, through contributing analysis and insights to proposals, client workshops and marketing materials. Additionally, as a Manager - BCG Vantage, you will contribute to developing intellectual property & assets for the business and assist in onboarding and training junior colleagues based on your topic/sector expertise.

In this role, you will contribute to work at the interface of BCG's Energy and Climate & Sustainability Practice Areas. The focus may include topics related to the energy transition, geothermal, subsurface, CO2 storage, and low-carbon solutions.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Translating deep subsurface and geothermal expertise into strategic insight - structuring complex technical topics into crisp, client-ready narratives that resonate with both technical experts and business decision-makers
• Advising clients on geothermal energy strategy, including site selection and resource favorability assessment, technology choice, project economics, and permitting pathways
• Leading workstreams with strong ownership, quality control, prioritization, and ability to manage multiple case and proposal priorities
• Bringing a commercially curious mindset - not just answering the technical question, but understanding the client's business context and shaping insight that drives real decisions
• Communicating complex technical topics clearly and credibly to senior clients, BCG case teams, technical experts, and non-technical stakeholders

What You'll Bring

Experience

• 3+ years of consulting experience in energy, climate, low-carbon solutions, geothermal, CCUS, or subsurface topics; strategy consulting experience preferred
• In lieu of consulting experience, 4+ years of relevant industry experience required; 6-10+ years preferred in geothermal, CO storage, or subsurface project development
• Bachelor's Degree required (advanced degree preferred) in related field (e.g., reservoir engineering, petroleum engineering, chemical engineering, geoscience, geology)
• Proven track record of working on geothermal and/or CO storage projects
• Experience advising on or within an energy transition context is a strong plus

Technical Expertise

• Deep knowledge of geothermal energy systems for both power generation and direct-use applications
• Awareness of the regulatory, permitting, and policy landscape for geothermal across key markets
• Understanding of geothermal project economics
• Strong understanding of CO geological storage
• Knowledge of CO injection operations and understanding of leakage risk assessment, site characterization requirements, and monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) frameworks for storage sites, including long-term stewardship obligations
• Familiarity with CO-EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery)

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 project's 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.

Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.

The base salary range for this role in Houston & Washington is $148,400 -$154,000.

This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.

In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 26% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.

All of 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 in orthodontia benefits

• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually

• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities

• Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan

• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement

• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)

• Paid sick time on an as needed basis

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