Associate/Consultant, Climate & Sustainability Job at Boston Consulting Group
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
Climate change is not a future threat—it is an immediate one. BCG’s Climate & Sustainability practice (C&S) partners with businesses and governments to help them transform commitments into action and build a decarbonized, more sustainable world, driving technological and economic transformations to realize sustainable competitive advantage.
As part of our commitment to protecting the planet and helping clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, BCG is deepening and broadening its focus. C&S brings together more than 550 experts covering the full range of sustainability topics, including biodiversity, circular economy, decarbonization, sustainable agriculture, transition financing, water management, and other ESG topics—across all sectors—to support our clients around the world.
What You'll Do
WHAT WE NEED
To help tackle climate change, and move to a more sustainable and equitable future, BCG helps clients transform to optimize for societal and business value. Our clients are facing more pressure than ever to rethink their role in society and improve their impact on people and the planet. BCG is looking for consultants across tenures and topics. Our Climate & Sustainability practice seeks to help our private and public sector clients take on difficult challenges across a range of sectors and topics including natural resources, power & renewables, industrials, consumer goods & retail, and financial institutions.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
At BCG you will become a pivotal member of our team, working alongside some of the world’s top minds on the forefront of climate and sustainability topics. You will collaborate closely with team members from many backgrounds, advising clients across industries on how to equitably achieve their net zero ambitions and reach their sustainability goals.
To capitalize on the momentum and growth, current openings span levels and areas of expertise, meaning the type of work you will focus in could vary.
BCG consulting staff help clients to drive value on multiple levels including societal and sustainability value, financial impact, organizational transformation, improved supplier collaboration, and optimized risk management. You will collaborate on challenging projects with team members from many backgrounds and disciplines, increasing your understanding of complex business problems from diverse perspectives as well as developing new skills and experience to help you at every stage of your career—at BCG and beyond.
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
YOU'LL BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)
- Master’s degree, MBA or, PhD preferred
- Relevant coursework in one or more of the following areas preferred: Data Analytics, Sustainability, Supply Chain, Environmental Science, Carbon Management & Accounting, Engineering
- Full-time or internship work experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Natural Resources: Mining and metals, oil & gas, basic materials and metals, or chemicals operations; carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) commercial strategy and market assessment, greenhouse gas reduction and energy efficiency, net-zero
- Power & Renewables: Distributed energy resources (DER), EV vehicles and charging, electrification of industrial processes, onsite electricity generation, corporate renewables procurement
- Industrials: Carbon accounting/disclosure and/or hydrogen/fuel cell/e-fuel strategy within chemicals, engineered processed goods, aerospace & defense, automotive, and agriculture. Supply chain experience, clean tech knowledge and low carbon manufacturing experience a plus
- Consumer Goods & Retail: Sustainable sourcing & procurement within retail and consumer products, traceability & transparency, regenerative agriculture and food value chains, retail net-zero strategy
- Financial Institutions, Private Equity, investing: Sustainable and impact investing strategy, ESG accounting, impact due diligence, ESG integration, net-zero strategy in financial institution setting (private equity, banks, funds, asset management)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
Climate change is not a future threat—it is an immediate one. BCG’s Climate & Sustainability practice (C&S) partners with businesses and governments to help them transform commitments into action and build a decarbonized, more sustainable world, driving technological and economic transformations to realize sustainable competitive advantage.
As part of our commitment to protecting the planet and helping clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, BCG is deepening and broadening its focus. C&S brings together more than 550 experts covering the full range of sustainability topics, including biodiversity, circular economy, decarbonization, sustainable agriculture, transition financing, water management, and other ESG topics—across all sectors—to support our clients around the world.
YOU'LL BE BASED IN
We will consider candidates for any of our North American offices.
YOU'LL BE TRAVELING
Travel is expected and will vary based on project needs.
WHO WE ARE
At BCG, our mission is unlocking the potential of those who advance the world.
We partner with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and build the capabilities that enable organizations to achieve sustainable advantage. We bring the right people together to question established thinking and drive transformation.
At the heart of strategic, organizational, economic, intellectual, societal, and global potential is human potential—and unlocking it is what moves the world forward.
Founded in 1963, BCG is a private company with more than 90 offices in 50 countries. Joining the BCG family means support, inspiration, flexibility—and countless opportunities to grow and learn. For more information, please visit bcg.com.
VACCINE
Candidates should be aware that BCG currently maintains a policy requiring all US & Canada based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. BCG is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.
FOR U.S. APPLICANTS
Boston Consulting Company (“BCG”) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
The first year base compensation for this role is:
Associate: $110,000 USD
Consultant: $190,000 USD
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 $5 (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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