BCG - Boston Consulting Group
DigitalBCG | Platinion Product Manager
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BCG Platinion
As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial – nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. Our unique selling proposition is technology expertise and delivery excellence.
Platinion was founded in 2000. Since then, we have grown continuously and successfully. Today we have offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific and Africa.
Practice Area Profile
What You'll Do
- Formulating merchandise strategy from qualitative surveys: Designing and conducting research using the appropriate framework, understanding and visualizing user behavior habits, pain points, and needs, understanding advanced trends and scenario thinking, catch-up to advanced examples of ideation
- Product/Service Design: User story creation, creating a customer journey, targeting user persona, stakeholder mapping creation, product function design, non-functional design, product IT architecture design
- Pitch-Craft/Storytelling: Creating value proposition of business concept, vision statement creation, delivery method consideration, presentation/pitch story supervision
- Product Management: Creating WBS from development to launch and cost calculation from product development to launch - Investment plan creation management
- Able to visualize customer journeys, identify pain points from the customer's perspective, and plan and design products
- Able to do system overview design and operation design of digital products
- Based on the technology that forms the foundation of the product, you are able to evaluate technology after grasping the trend in the medium to long term
- Based on business strategy, you are able to formulate a business plan for service and manage its progress
- Experience in E2E from service planning, design, development, and launch to initial flow response and growth (development project management experience welcomed)
- Product planning and design
- Product management
- Service design
- Platform design
- Able to lead discussions between BCG consultants, BCG Digital engineers, and BCG Digital service design with different ideas, and act as a bridge between the three parties
- Able to lead cooperation with external vendors
- Able to join the client's business, advertising and marketing, and IT departments to lead communication, facilitation, explanations and discussions, and lead them in the direction of the BCG hypotheses
- Communication skills and knowledge and experience in specific areas to the degree that you can square off against consultants in charge of clients in their area of responsibility
- Facilitation ability to lead departmental and team meeting-level discussions
- Ability to understand business and experience in IT to mediate between business and IT in their area of responsibility
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
- Product management experience from product and actual service planning and design, to launch
- Design thinking experience in prototyping and strategy formulation
- Exceptional communication skills to be able to lead discussions that encourage decisions on deep questions in user interviews, vendor management, and client communication
- Experience in everything from IT product planning to product management
- Industrial design experience in everything from drafting to management of overall marketing
- Experience in new service, planning new business, and executing business plans
- Business-fluent written and spoken English language skills
- Native level of written and spoken Japanese language skills
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