ECT PL - Agile@Scale - London

Location:

London

Geography:

Europe & The Middle East

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

Through People & Organization, BCG works with our clients — senior business executives— who value BCG’s strategic, fact-based, and impact-oriented approach supported by senior teams, rich benchmarking databases and analytical capabilities. We provide expertise to our clients across all industries through our capabilities in areas like Organization Design; Change Management; Shared Services and Support Functions; Culture, Purpose and Engagement; Leadership & Talent; and Agile Ways of Working.

What You'll Do

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 GAMMA.

OUR AGILE AT SCALE OFFERING:

BCG’s Digital and Agile at Scale business is growing rapidly and we are aggressively building our team. By combining deep expertise in agile with battle-tested transformation experience, we advise clients on how to design, build and operate world-class agile organizations. This new agile way of working enables enterprises to be more nimble, more focused on business value, better able to drive outcomes, achieve faster time-to-market when delivering products/propositions, all while delivering higher employee engagement.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

We seek agile practitioners with demonstrated experience leading agile transformations for large enterprises. In your role, you will drive engagements of cross-functional, joint BCG / client teams to transform organizations to agile ways of working. You will be responsible for shaping key insights and thinking about the new model, motivating and managing the BCG team, engaging key junior and senior clients and ensuring seamless delivery and implementation of the transformation. You will set the high-level structure for how to deliver the transformation, manage to tight timelines and client deliverables, provide hands-on training and coaching on agile concepts and deliver the key enablers needed to address and deliver the change.

Our Expert Consulting Track (ECT)

The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG’s ability to successfully meet our clients’ demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities. Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges. Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to bring the ‘best of BCG’ to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

We’re looking for exceptional talent from consulting or industry to join us. You would typically:

• Have an outstanding academic track record from a leading university

• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Passion for working with leaders and helping them develop new skills through coaching, mentoring and training.

• Have 7+ years’ consulting or industry experience, or a combination of both leading teams of people, managing large, complex enterprise-level organization transformations, with expertise around specific functions (e.g. Finance, HR, IT) and / or scaling new ways of working across the broader enterprise.

Following examples will be of interest:

• Experience in customizing ways of working to fit a client’s culture by tailoring a ranging of frameworks and approaches (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS DevOps, Lean and Lean Startup)

• Experience coaching clients on a variety of digital topics such as product management, engineering culture, agile values and principles, and agile leadership behaviours

• Experience of working with companies in the UK Banking, Telecom, Utilities or Healthcare sectors desirable

• Demonstrated application of agile practices and principles to non-software delivery environments (e.g. IT, HR, Legal, Finance)

• Experience delivering large-scale re-organization projects and successful implementation including staffing and leadership development while taking a hands-on approach with clients

• Experience in pulling all levers in organisation design an transformation including operating model, HR and staffing, systems and tools, structure, governance, finance

• Experience in designing and managing workshop/discussions with senior clients

• Creating and delivering fit for purpose training and on boarding content

Date Posted:

17-Dec-2021

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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BCG - Boston Consulting Group

Expert Project Leader - Agile@Scale

Who We Are

Practice Area Profile

What You'll Do

Our Expert Consulting Track (ECT)

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)