DBCG - ANZ - DAS Expert Agile Project Leader

Location:

Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney

Geography:

Asia Pacific

Capabilities:

Technology & digital

Industries:

Technology industries

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

Practice Area Profile

BCG’s Technology Advantage (TA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through the use of data, technology and digital. TA is the fastest growing practice at BCG and at the heart of the strategic impact we have with our clients. Our consultants and experts globally work across all industries and provide deep experience and expertise across a number of topics including: * Digital Transformation * Data & Digital Platforms * Software & Agile * Digitizing the Tech Function

What You'll Do

A Project Leader occupies an important position executing and supporting client service engagements in a variety of roles. A Project Leader with deep agile expertise may be responsible for delivering a specific piece of work as an advisor, or an individual contributor or, depending on the individual's profile and skill set, they may be responsible for leading a team. They may also play an advisory role on projects helping either to establish BCG's credibility or ramp the team up at the start of a particular piece of work, or providing regular support and guidance throughout the project. At the more senior levels individuals become increasingly involved in business development activities and increase the amount of time dedicated to development of their own and BCG's expertise.

Consequently, the responsibilities of a Project Leader include:

Working jointly with BCG and client project teams to execute projects in their domain of expertise, provide expertise and support to the team and to the client on site.
Contributing to business development efforts, including preparation of proposal documents and attending pitch presentations, as well as the development of intellectual property
Leading the day-to-day execution of consulting projects or expertise-heavy modules, and ensuring successful delivery of client requirements within the scope of the engagement; including:

- Owning the project planning and process management

- Communicating progress to clients and BCG leadership

- Driving development of the content, either directly or by providing guidance to the consulting team (for example, by sharing ideas, frameworks or providing input on research and analysis)

- Leading senior client presentations and meetings

- Managing the client relationship on a day-to-day basis

- Managing project scope and maintaining an acceptable pace of work

Providing apprenticeship and coaching to junior consultants to help develop their consulting skills, including sharing knowledge and experience, giving frequent feedback and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow
Contributing to the running of the BCG office, which may include recruiting, training or other activities

Specific responsibilities and requirements to join our Software & Agile transformation team:

We are looking to recruit a Project Leader to join our Software and Agile Transformation team in A/NZ. As such the Project Leader would actively support or directly lead BCG teams in a wide range of challenging client engagements across top-tier firms. The successful applicants will have deep expertise in software development and large scale transformation, ideally with experience across multiple industries. They should be able to advise our clients on their software business strategy, as well as provide practical guidance on how to effect change and build out capabilities on par with high performing Cloud companies. They will also be expected to actively contribute to the business, people and IP development of the Technology Advantage practice, e.g. by mentoring team members and collaborating in research and publications.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

A minimum of 7-8 years of combined work experience in actual software delivery (either for a pure player or within a global firm's IT department) and IT consulting pertaining to software delivery

- Proven track record of mid to large-scale programs or products ($5 -15 Million+ annual budgets)

- Hands-on experience at managing large-scale change or transformation across the enterprise

- Demonstrated experience in driving and coaching teams, as well as business development

- Experience working with C-level executives in the technology space

Deep experience / expertise in software delivery or software product management, ideally across a breadth of industries – notably cloud SW, telecoms, consumer, banking, health care and manufacturing

- Experience in Agile transformation at scale in the Financial sector a plus for this position

- Actual product management responsibility and / or agile development experience a plus

Hands-on, practical knowledge of best practices for software organization, delivery and optimisation – notably Agile development methodologies, Lean / Six Sigma applied to Software, Performance evaluation and optimization and large program risk management
Desire to continue to broaden technology skills while deepening strategy and client-facing skills
An outstanding track record of leadership and achievement

Education and Qualifications:

Strong academics from a top-tier institution
An MBA is desirable but not essential

Professional Skills and Personal Attributes:

Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
Excellent communication skills
Highly professional and rigorous
Able to think strategically/end-to-end
Good business sense
Results-oriented, driven, hard-working
Team player, open, pleasure to work with and positive in a group dynamic
Loyal and reliable
Highest ethical standards
Flexible and creative: ability to propose innovative ideas, build empathy within the firm and win the trust of the clients
Good interpersonal skills but also judgment independency and autonomy
Entrepreneurial, proactive, and productive

Date Posted:

14-Feb-2019

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