DigitalBCG | Agile Transformation Lead | Expert Project Leader, Agile at Scale

Location:

Melbourne, 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.


Digital BCG

BCG has a long history of driving growth by embracing innovation and new ways of thinking.  Through DigitalBCG, we bring together a diverse mix of consultants and digital specialists to ensure that we are supporting our clients throughout their digital transformation journeys. We work with our clients to fully understand the impact of digital on their business and set priorities that will transform their vision into value. Whether it be developing new technologies to support their core business, making better use of their data, or pursuing entirely new sources of revenue, our aim is to achieve radical improvements in productivity, flexibility, and speed. We are innovating how our clients are using artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, internet of things, personalization, blockchain technologies, and more to gain competitive advantage.


DigitalBCG encompasses a broad set of data, digital, and technology capabilities from BCG consulting teams and practices, along with our business units such as BCG Digital Ventures, BCG Platinion, and BCG X.

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

DigitalBCG encompasses a broad set of data, digital, and technology capabilities from BCG consulting teams and practices, along with our business units such as BCG Digital Ventures, BCG Platinion, and BCG GAMMA  

Our world is being driven by digital and at BCG we are at the heart of it.  In DigitalBCG, you would use your expertise and generalist consulting skillset to help CEOs and their teams solve their most pressing challenges, and think about how digital and technology will change the shape of their business.
 
You would help your clients answer questions such as “How will AI disrupt my business model?”, “How can businesses use data and analytics to create highly-personalized outreach delivered through a seamless omnichannel experience?”, “How can I ship higher quality digital services to my customers faster by using agile?” and much more.
 
As a member of our DBCG team, you would work on a variety of these topics, applying your consulting skills to strategic digital, technology, and digital transformation questions.
 
BCG’s Agile at Scale offering draws on two of our premiere consulting practices: the Technology Advantage (TA) and the People & Organization (POP) practices which offer advisory and transformation services with a clear focus on business value and application of a strategic lens to technology, digital and people and organizational issues. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

BCG’s Digital and Agile at Scale business is growing rapidly and we are aggressively building our team. By combining deep expertise in agile with battle-tested transformation experience, we advise clients on how to design, build and operate world-class agile organizations. This new agile way of working enables enterprises to be more nimble, more focused on business value, better able to drive outcomes, achieve faster time-to-market when delivering products/propositions, all while delivering higher employee engagement. 

As an Expert Project Leader, Agile at scale you will be integrated into a BCG team and leverage your deep expertise on projects that reshape businesses. You will be given end-to-end responsibility for large and complex “modules” within a BCG project and may lead small but high-impact teams to drive results for our clients. You will work closely with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, and win buy-in for your recommendations, while also collaborating with colleagues on complex client issues. Your expertise will be valued by senior clients and you will help build and contribute to BCG’s intellectual capital while spending significant time supporting and executing case work. 

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

YOU’RE GOOD AT:

Key personal attributes that are required to be successful in the role:
  • Hypothesis-led problem solving, framing and communicating complex ideas and thinking strategically
  • Collaborating and demonstrating strong teaming capabilities both internally and externally with clients 
  • Building trust and rapport with clients by understanding their business, relating to their experiences, and empathizing with their challenges
  • Leading and growing our A/NZ Agile at Scale topic through project execution, business development, and intellectual property creation
  • Creating awareness of our Agile at Scale expertise and capabilities externally through participating in key industry forums, publications and presentations 
  • Delivering client impact by creating the next generation of IP and deepening business knowledge
  • Engaging internal communities on expertise and capabilities, with a strong focus on sharing knowledge and insight.

YOU’LL BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS) 

We’re looking for exceptional talent from consulting or industry to join us. You would typically have:
  • 8 years+ experience in a strategy, management or technology consulting firm and/or within a large corporate digital environment 
  • a combination of enterprise/business agility + technology agility + commercial drive
  • a track record of delivery, impressive portfolio of work across a range of industries/geographies aligned to agility topics
  • ideally in an agile advisory, agile transformation lead or enterprise agile coaching capacity 
  • experience leading and managing large, complex enterprise-level agile transformations, with expertise around specific issues that arise with agile in functions including IT and beyond (e.g. Finance, HR, Legal) and/or scaling agile across the broader enterprise
  • working knowledge of approaches ranging from frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS) to engineering practices (test-driven development) and DevOps
  • strong leadership skills with credible experience leading and mentoring high performing teams 
  • experience as an active leader in the agile community with a passion for presenting, developing, publishing articles and blogs 
  • broad generalist digital/technology skills and knowledge   
  • strategic/commercial mindset, presence and gravitas 
  • excellent communication, client facing and consulting skills 
  • a minimum of a Bachelors degree coupled with agile related certifications
  • flexibility for frequent travel interstate or international as required.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH 

Our Experts within DigitalBCG are an integral part of BCG's core consulting team; you will work side-by-side with all practice areas to create value & competitive advantage for our clients. 

YOU’LL BE BASED IN:

CITY: Melbourne or Sydney
COUNTRY: Australia 
YOU’LL BE TRAVELLING: Frequently within A/NZ & Asia Pacific and internationally as required.
 

Date Posted:

09-Mar-2020

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