BCG - Boston Consulting Group
Principal Data Scientist
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Practice Area Profile
What You'll Do
- Bringing expertise and best practices to a range of BCG projects and proposals
- Leading the day-to-day execution of consulting projects and ensuring successful delivery of client requirements within the scope of the engagement; including:
- Actively managing multiple client and stakeholder relationships and networking within the
- client organization in order to understand and influence
- Leading senior client presentations and meetings
- Contributing to the development of intellectually property, including improving
- methodologies, tools, techniques and developing new ideas and approaches
- Owning business development efforts, including preparation of proposal documents and
- attending pitch presentations
- Providing apprenticeship and coaching to junior consultants to help develop their consulting
- skills, including sharing knowledge and experience, giving frequent feedback and creating
- opportunities for team members to learn and grow
- Experience supporting clients to develop and describe their vision for value creation in data
- and analytics
- Ability to assess client data and analytics maturity and recommend improvements
- appropriate for business needs
- Help provide and develop ideas and use-cases with and for clients, and codify these for clients
- and broader BCG use
- Advise on issues of trust, privacy and security
- Advise on analytics operating models, people and processes
- Advise on data and analytics technology platforms, be familiar with relevant trends, best
- practices and emerging technologies and approaches in the market
- Identify and describe machine learning methods and the data requirements appropriate to
- particular use-cases
- Advise on enterprise information management and data governance
- Advise on potential partners and partnering strategy on practical approaches to dataregulatory
- issues
- Be recognized in industry or marketplace as a thought leader and able to contribute to BCG
- thought leadership globally
- Preferred: exposure to and experience in several Asia Pacific countries
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
- Have prior experience in driving an intellectual agenda, identifying value-creating
- opportunities and building strategy and execution of a data capability
- Experience addressing business challenges with technology; background in analytics
- consulting with a focus on scale-up or industrialization preferred
- Good understanding of enterprise architecture principles
- Excellent written and spoken English, other Asian languages a bonus
- Be a strong manager with clear leadership/ management achievement
- Preferred advanced degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Computer Engineering, Computer
- Science, Telecommunications, Physics or Mathematics
- Strong academics from top-tier institution/s (top 10% of class)
- 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
- Willing to travel extensively and to work on client sites
- Loyal and reliable
- Highest ethical standards
- Flexible, curious and creative, open for new things and able to propose innovative ideas
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