BCG - Boston Consulting Group
Expert Project Leader - Procurement
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Practice Area Profile
What You'll Do
A Project Leader (PL) position is a mark of significant achievement with considerable leadership and performance expectations. Senior experts work closely with Partner teams to help leverage their expertise to support commercial opportunities and drive growth; as an Associate Director (AD), experts take a larger more proactive role in shaping the plan for the commercial agenda and how to support the strategy of the practice.
What will be expected of you in this role is to:
- Play a leading role in the growth of our Operations Practice and the Procurement topic through case execution, client development, and intellectual property & product creation
- Execute, or provide expertise and support to, Procurement projects within the Operations Practice Area for our key clients in Europe and beyond
- Desire to build and spread Procurement expertise within BCG and serving as a Procurement-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 procurement 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)
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
- At least 7 years of work experience in top level advisory or consulting firm although candidates with excellent industry backgrounds would also be considered
- It is essential, that you have already earned an outstanding market reputation in the field of Procurement 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 & French are 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
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