BCG - Boston Consulting Group
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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
What You'll Do
- Leading small but high impact consulting teams and owning content and day-to-day client interactions
- Re-scope clients strategies to include digital focus in business strategy
- Leading digital benchmarking engagements also across several clients in parallel
- Educate and inform clients proactively about state of the art digital technologies and how it can bring value to their business
- Providing expertise and support in driving Digital transformation projects (e.g. accompany BCG consultant in business process digitization cases) and specifically on key digital subjects (e.g. Mobility, e-commerce, internet of things, etc.) and technical specialist (e.g. DevOps, Agile, etc.)
- Define the digital organization (e.g. Governance model, ways of working, Talent acquisition, new career track, etc.)
- Lead role in presenting key findings to C-level executives
- Actively building and managing multiple senior client/stakeholder relationships throughout the strategy development and decision making process
- Contribution to the development of go-to-market digital offerings, methodologies, toolkits, benchmarks, and enablement material for the Digital transformation and DAI topics
- Contribution to the development of Digital Transformation and DAI intellectual capital for publication and/or internal BCG use e.g. emerging technology trends
- Marketing of go-to-markets both internal on BCG practice area meetings, master classes, consulting trainings and external on leading industry and digital conferences
- Education and Qualifications:
- Preferred advanced degree in Management and Business Studies, Electrical, Mechanical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Telecommunications, Physics or Mathematics - graduate of a leading engineering school would be a plus
- Strong academics from top-tier institutions (top 10% of class)
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
- 3-5 years consulting experience in delivering value for clients or alternatively 5-10 years industry experience with leading projects in any of the following areas
- Successfully designed and executed digital strategies reshaping customer experience as a result
- Solid understanding and implementation experience in upcoming digital trends and how digital impacts whole industries and disrupts traditional business models
- Solid experience in (IT) benchmarking and/or how to develop digital maturity assessments
- Have influenced user experience using digital channels in an omni-channel fashion integrating all digital touch-points
- Experience in digitization and potentially automation of core business processes and end-to-end digitization across the value chain
- First experience with creating digital business models and identifying digital growth opportunities, thereby going beyond corporate boundaries, but to think in digital ecosystems
- 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
- Enablement experience to inject the digital DNA on a corporate level – and to enable the organization for digital incl. governance, cultural change, people topics and digital education
- Experience in disrupting traditional business models as a digital attacker
- Exposure to agile methodology and agile deliverables (storyboards, wireframes etc..) with an understanding of agile engineering practices
- Implementation experience in Big Data discipline and Internet of Things (IOT) is highly desired
- Ideally several years work experience as Chief Digital Officer, Start-up CIO/Head of product, CMO of digital outfits, customer strategists, or Project Leader at digital boutiques or at digital think tanks
- Experience addressing business challenges leveraging Technology solutions
- Exposure to deep dive IT diagnostics, experience identifying value creation opportunities
- Good understanding of the technology side of digital and enterprise architecture principles
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