Global Compensation Manager
Boston Consulting Group
Administration
Lisbon, Portugal
Posted on Mar 10, 2026
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
This role sits within BCG’s Global Compensation Team and is part of the central Global Reward Centre of Expertise, which oversees the strategy, management, and development of Reward programs across our Consulting Teams, Specialty Businesses, and Business Services Teams. You will provide analytical and specialist support to the Global Compensation team to aid managerial decisions related to compensation programs in various BCG organization(s) and cohorts(s).
Within the team, this role has an analytical focus, and typical activities will include:
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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
This role sits within BCG’s Global Compensation Team and is part of the central Global Reward Centre of Expertise, which oversees the strategy, management, and development of Reward programs across our Consulting Teams, Specialty Businesses, and Business Services Teams. You will provide analytical and specialist support to the Global Compensation team to aid managerial decisions related to compensation programs in various BCG organization(s) and cohorts(s).
Within the team, this role has an analytical focus, and typical activities will include:
- Creating, maintaining and updating executive compensation bonus tools to decide and facilitate bonus payout processes and streamline compensation workflows.
- Developing, updating and calculating compensation funding models based on population data, compensation parameters and financial performance metrics
- Preparing and presenting insights, reports, and visualizations on bonus and compensation metrics to stakeholders.
- Continuously improving tools, models and processes to enhance efficiency and data accuracy.
- Contributing to assigned key initiatives across the range of areas covered by Global Compensation COE
- Data modelling and mathematical analysis
- Building relationships
- Organizing and prioritizing work, taking initiative
- Communicating articulately and clearly with stakeholders in written and spoken forms
- Working within a fast paced and changing environment
- Navigating complexity and ambiguity
- Demonstrating a mind-set of continuous improvement
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master/ MBA a plus
- Minimum 6 years of corporate experience in compensation or a related area, showing progression
- Ability to drive analysis and processes with guidance
- Mathematical confidence and comfort with calculations
- Familiarity with reward practices, executive compensation and/or comp modelling an advantage
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills. Working knowledge of PowerPoint.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience working across different geographies an advantage
- Global Compensation team members and leadership
- MD HR team
- Global HR and Finance teams
- Business stakeholders
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