DBCG - GC - Associate Director

Location:

Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai

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

The Role – Managing Director

The MD will lead Platinion India. He/ she would be instrumental in business development activities including but not limited to facilitating internal & external stakeholder discussions, building client relationships that are strong and lasting and serving as core member of the Platinion AP management team. In addition to these activities this individual will be responsible for team mentoring, case execution and client delivery.

The MD will advance the capability and opportunity of Platinion within India and execute the strategy in collaboration with the BCG Partnership. The MD will collaborate with BCG leadership to drive the portfolio of vendor services and onboard required capabilities. The MD will drive the commercial agenda by supporting proposal and sales efforts.

The MD will support case team delivery bringing a combination of topic expertise, intellectual leadership and management skills to help direct and guide Platinion services and product offerings. The MD will have a direct client facing role and will be expected to lead meetings with clients in specific contexts. The individual will spend 50-75% of their time on client facing projects.

In summary this person will:

Be the face of the digital to the BCG India Partnership
Be the go to person for BD activities
Execute digital transformation cases and bring personal expertise
Hire and grow the team
Build capabilities, process, methodologies to create capability
Drive thought leadership and visibility of the team – internally within BCG and outside

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Desired Background

We are seeking a senior professional with deep knowledge and experience leading large scale digital business transformations. Having experience in several digital transformation projects you bring the ability to translate and deliver on the digital vision of an organization hoping to establish itself as an innovative player in the digital world. You have:

Defined a digital strategy and brought it to life overseeing an end to end transformation roadmap, digital operating model, customer journey, development and roll out
Served as Chief Digital Officer/CTO/Head of Product in a business which has been through a transformation and leveraged digital disciplines to ensure successful outcomes
Managed both internal and external digital teams and have owned a portfolio of vendor relationships and possess credibility as a digital leader
Worked for a reputed organization with a history of success and quality performance

Digital Requirements

Successfully designed and executed digital strategies reshaping customer experience as a result
Solid understanding and implementation experience in upcoming digital trends especially in Strategic design, personalization, digital marketing, analytics & Mobile space
Have influenced user experience using digital channels in an omni-channel fashion integrating all digital touch-points
Experience taking strategy to implementation with experience selecting tools and applications, to advising on next generation IT infrastructure, to creating custom web and mobile apps through rapid prototyping
Exposure to agile methodology and agile deliverables (storyboards, wireframes etc..) with an understanding of agile engineering practices

General Requirements

Preferred advanced degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, Physics or Mathematics - graduate of a leading engineering school would be a plus
Strong academics from top-tier institutions (top 10% of class)
Excellent written and spoken English, other Asian languages a bonus
14+ years experience that has enabled sectoral depth in across a few industries (Telecommunications, Financial Services, Banking, eCommerce, Manufacturing, Industrial Goods, Energy or other)
Be a strong manager with clear leadership/ management achievement
Management consulting experience preferred
Experience addressing business challenges leveraging Technology solutions
Exposure to deep dive IT diagnostics, experience identifying value creation opportunities
Good understanding of enterprise architecture principles, hands on digital experience is a plus
Have prior experience in driving a commercial agenda; building delivery and execution of a digital competency; defining and guiding the strategic direction of technology topics. Have prior experience in handling technology/business relationship and SLA management process with external vendors; responsible for the delivery and deployment of solutions ensuring that they are delivered on time and meet required standards

Professional Skills

Analytical and structured
Able to work creatively and analytically in a time-limited, problem-solving environment
Excellent communication skills
Able to build empathy within the firm and win the trust of the clients
Highly professional and rigorous
Able to think strategically/end-to-end
Good business sense
Results-oriented
Strong in execution and comfortable with fragmentation
Willing to travel extensively and to work on client sites

Personal Attributes

Loyal and reliable
Highest ethical standards
Flexible, curious and creative, open for new things and able to propose innovative ideas

Date Posted:

28-Sep-2018

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