Expert Project Leader Digital Supply Chain

Location:

London

Geography:

Europe & The Middle East

Capabilities:

Technology & digital

Industries:

Engineered products & infrastructure, 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 Operations Practice (OPS) Area is one of BCG's largest functional practices. We help our clients create competitive advantage by enhancing their performance and building strategic capabilities. BCG’s expertise in Operations covers the following areas - supply chain management, procurement, manufacturing, service operations, cost efficiency, operational transformation, research & product development, program and project management, all with a strong digital and analytics overlay.

What You'll Do

Your expertise is of vital importance to BCG and our clients. As an Expert Project Leader or Associate Director (PL/AD), you will be a core member of BCG’s Operations Practice working alongside some of the world’s top minds in the industry. You will also significantly contribute to the development of our Digital Supply Chain topic and support our ambitious growth targets.

Most of your time will be spent leading and developing BCG Supply Chain related project teams composed of members of different backgrounds collaborating with you on those projects. You will also dedicate time to further develop and deepen BCG’s expertise in these areas, and to support BCG Partners in business development initiatives.


What will be expected of you in this role is to:

  • Play a leading role in the growth of our Operations Practice and the Digital Supply Chain topic through case execution, client development, and intellectual property & product creation
  • Execute, or provide expertise and support to Digital Supply Chain projects within the Operations Practice Area for our key clients in Europe and beyond
  • Desire to build and spread Digital Supply Chain expertise within BCG and serving as a DSC-hub for the firm to develop new techniques and/or capture new ideas as well as casework experience.
  • Ability to contribute to BCG's practice area publications and to BCG's Digital Supply Chain approach and toolkit, benchmarks, templates, processes, incl. responsibility for managing and developing 3rd party cooperation
  • Work jointly with BCG and client project teams, bringing expertise to the team and to the client on site
  • Actively support our business development efforts: client meetings, industry conferences
  • Provide mentorship and support to consultants ensuring continuous individual development

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)

  • You ideally have 6-8 years of work experience in top level advisory or consulting firm, or experience gained in Digital Supply Chain at a market leading company and/or an MBA with 1-3 years of previous consulting experience.
  • It is essential, that you already have deep experience in the field of Digital Supply Chain and have achieved significant and proven results at prior clients
  • Knowledge challenging the “status quo”, creating transparency for clients, helping them understand the implications of their costs, synthesising & advising how to improve
  • A track record of project/team leadership and related achievements
  • Willingness to travel internationally and to work remotely on client sites
  • Strong academics
  • Fluent English is a must
  • Problem solving skills - hypothesis-driven approach- and advanced quantitative analysis skills
  • Flexible, curious and creative, open for new things and able to propose innovative ideas

Date Posted:

22-Feb-2021

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