DBCG - ANZ - Platinion Agile Coach

Location:

Canberra, 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.

Practice Area Profile

The Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) practice works with companies across the digital device, software, IT services, TV, publishing, information services, entertainment and telecom sectors to make sense of the unrelenting velocity of technological and consumer change they face. We partner with clients to transform their industries, define winning business models, shape their value proposition and go-to-market approach, enhance their operational competitiveness, and create sustained advantage.

What You'll Do

Interested in addressing our client’s most strategic and difficult challenges? Ready to bring your Agile expertise to clients who are transforming their ways of working? Excited to work with a team of senior executives one day, and a scrum team the next to advance a transformation on all levels? We are looking for Agile consultants that are representing the BCG / Platinion brand, working at different levels and project portfolios, with deep exposure to our client senior executives.

In this role, you will work as part of a cross-functional joint BCG / client teams, collaborating across Agile teams, their managers, senior leaders, and shared services/control functions to change work routines and optimize flow. You will provide insights on Agile concepts, values, culture, behaviors and practices, and engage hands-on, supporting key Agile project roles to help clients teams implement or accelerate Agile transformations.

Together with national and international clients you will define new ways of working based on Agile principles and actively steer the implementation of such initiatives. Using your sound Agile experience, understanding of business contexts, and analytical and conceptual skills, you have the chance to make a big impact on enterprises during key digital transformations.

A consultant typically works closely together in a mixed BCG/client team and takes responsibility for small to mid-sized modules. They independently support our clients and present concepts and solutions to client decision makers.

Typical tasks include the following:

Tailoring Agile frameworks and functional concepts for client implementation

Agile maturity assessments of enterprise clients

Definition of change management strategies and implementation plans

Temporarily supporting Feature Owner/Scrum Master roles to enable project delivery in client teams or taking on these roles for smaller client teams

Restructuring of organizations and core processes to facilitate Agile work principles

Directly supporting Agile client teams delivery against key sprint or quality goals

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

A university degree with above-average academic performance in information technology, business administration, or a related field
Professional experience in the execution and management of (sub)projects

o Project management and change management experience in Agile environment

o Experience delivering results as part of an Agile team

o Proven ability to navigate technology environment and deliver IT solutions

o Ideally, experience in DevOps

o Certified in Scrum Alliance (CSM/CSPO/CSD/CSP), Scrum.org (PSM/PSPO/PSD),

SAFe Scaled Agilest, PMI-ACP desired but not required

Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills
Distinct client and results orientation
Team spirit, communication and presentation skills, mental agility
A confident and convincing manner
Flexibility, ability to work under pressure, and willingness to travel

LOCATION

Canberra, Melbourne or Sydney

Date Posted:

06-Sep-2018

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