BCG Knowledge Analyst Roles

In asnwer to your questions:

1) Primary and Secondary research for consulting teams; creation of internal "white papers" on industry trends; organization of practice area events

2) You will work a lot with project teams (they will assign the work) but in my experience there is no interaction with client. This is mostly a back office role

3) No, you are correct on the focus

4) Can go in cmpetitive intelligence teams of industry's players

Hope this helps,

Andrea

Hi,

Sharing a perspective on this:

1. Day to day tasks
   • Support consulting teams research and data gathering
   • Create and manage internal knowledge
2. Client interaction
   • Typically very minimal
   • Sometimes knowledge team is embedded in the client facing team, but they will not have the same level of client interaction as the consulting team
3. Interview process
   • Practice Area specific - but mostly focused on industry knowledge and research skills rather than case interview
4. Exit opportunities
   • Some switch to consulting teams in T2
   • Some switch to corporate strategy in MNCs as well

I would skip casing and focus both on industry knowledge and on how you would go about looking for and collecting data and translate that into insights.

Hope it helps,

Andrea