
Working Student - Strategic Alliances
Required skills
Job description
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) posted this role. Below, we break down what it means for a working student in Munich: your weekly hours, take-home pay and visa limits. You can also open ChatGPT or Claude with a ready-made prompt to tailor your CV, check your fit, draft a cover letter or prep for the interview.
Will your CV clear this job's ATS filter? Scan it against this job with Jobscan
Description provided by Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
What You'll Do
We are seeking a Working Student to support the Global Strategic Alliances team. We are looking for students who are self-motivated and excited by steady stream of project-based work. This includes supporting database management, analytics and preparation of pipeline reporting to drafting communications, liaising with global teams, reaching across the firm to continue to promote the Alliance agenda. The team specifically needs support driving events, maintaining scorecards, building dashboards for pipeline management & sales operations and to engage across global learning & development agenda.
The Global Strategic Alliances team is driving new lines of business in the topics of Gen AI, enterprise platform and cloud. The core objective of the team is to build new businesses for BCG through technology and services partnerships. The role will require daily engagement with internal & external stakeholders, BCG client teams, marketing, learning & development, product teams and BCG leadership. The student will support across the GSA management team in advancing our operations and go-to-market agenda. This role interfaces with technology experts, consulting colleagues & ecosystem contacts at the world’s largest technology companies. Candidates will bring excellent communication skills & be able to work with discretion.
You're good at
- Organized, detail oriented, analytical, ability to synthesize meetings and feedback key insights in compelling way (email, slides etc..)
- Interpersonal communication skills, inquisitive, able to ask clarifying questions
- Being proactive and resourceful, a good networker and someone up for challenge of learning an organization quickly
- Taking initiative with limited direction; ability to prioritize and consider tradeoffs when considering where to focus
- Ability to work in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
You can work up to 20 hours/week during your semesters and up to 40 hours/week during your vacation time. The role offers enough flexibility to combine personal, academic, and professional life. This is a temporary role from min. 12 to max. 24 moths. You need to be an enrolled university student in Germany.
What You'll Bring
- Preference for someone working on a BS/BA or MS/MA in Business, Marketing, Finance or Technology
- Preferably a senior student with strong academic performance with first relevant working experience
- Strong MS Excel and PowerPoint skills, proficient in other MS office
- BCG has flexible work options but requires the working student to be physically present in the BCG Munich office (if required by BCG/Hiring Manager) several days a week.
Who You'll Work With
Global Strategic Alliances are a key part of continuing to progress the way the firm meets the ever-evolving needs of clients and markets, through collaborative partnerships, with the largest and most relevant technology and services companies. The team comprises of the Global Alliances Executive Director, Directors, Senior Managers and supporting team who oversee the program through pillars of brand build, program management, capability build, business development and go to market initiatives. The team is dedicated to commercializing our growing number of strategic alliance partnerships and market-facing opportunities across practice areas, industries & geographies.
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.
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.
BCG is an E - Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.
Working student essentials
What this Operations working student role in Munich means for you: the weekly-hours rules, the social-contribution perks, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Working students may work up to 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during the breaks. Staying within this keeps your student status and the Werkstudent benefits.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Under the Werkstudentenprivileg you're exempt from health, care and unemployment insurance contributions — only pension insurance applies. That leaves more net pay than a regular job.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
Studying in Germany