DBCG - ANZ - Platinion Agile Delivery Manager

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, your technology background, and analytical and conceptual skills, you have the chance to make a big impact on enterprises during key digital transformations.

A manager is responsible for the execution and management of projects. They structure client projects and perform the required resource planning. Besides the functional guidance of project team members, they are also operationally involved in projects. They independently support our clients, present concepts and solutions to client decision makers, and agree on the next steps.

Typical tasks include the following:

Tailoring Agile frameworks and functional concepts for client implementation at divisional/unit level
Definition of change management strategies and implementation plans
Temporarily taking on Product Owner/Scrum Master roles in client teams or coaching client managers in these roles
Leadership, coaching and guidance for BCG / Platinion team members
Restructuring of organizations and core processes to facilitate Agile work principles
Designing Agile project management and quality assurance structures for large scale implementation
Act as a role model for the Agile way of working in your own work and as a leader

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Professional experience in the execution and management of operational and strategic IT implementation projects

o Management experience as a responsible project leader, product owner or product manager of larger (client) teams

o Experience in resource planning and employee management

o Proven change management and transformation experience

o Proven track record of delivering technology products in Agile organization

o Experience in new business development

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, and mental agility
A confident and convincing manner
Flexibility, ability to work under pressure, and willingness to travel
Academic degree in mathematics/natural sciences, information technology, business management, or similar

LOCATION:

Canberra, Melbourne or Sydney

Date Posted:

06-Sep-2018

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