DigitalBCG | Associate Director - Global Tech Platforms

Location:

Melbourne, Sydney

Geography:

Asia Pacific

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.


Digital BCG

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 X.

Practice Area Profile

BCG’s Technology Advantage (TA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through the use of data, technology and digital. TA is the fastest growing practice at BCG and at the heart of the strategic impact we have with our clients. Our consultants and experts globally work across all industries and provide deep experience and expertise across a number of topics including: * Digital Transformation * Data & Digital Platforms * Software & Agile * Digitizing the Tech Function

What You'll Do

An exciting newly created role as Associate Director—Global Tech Platforms, you’ll work with our digital senior leadership team to build a new line of business in low code/no code cloud-based implementation solutions. You’ll leverage your prior experience and build your comprehensive digital/technology expertise by driving and leading our new offering:
  • Develop and shape the approach, strategy and program
  • Business builder to identify opportunities—bring together and work with enterprise platform vendors to put propositions to our clients and deploy cloud-based solutions at expediated timeframes
  • Lead technology delivery programs, working with multidisciplinary BCG business and tech teams and vendor partners, to deliver enterprise technology solutions at a far faster speed than our competitors
  • Provide an E2E delivery perspective, ensuring that strategy is linked all the way down to implementation and operational readiness
  • Work with our clients to construct tailored delivery and pricing  
  • Uplift skills and capabilities of our clients to ensure they can continue to grow and support the solution delivered post BCG handover

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

  • 10-15+ years’ experience in leading technology delivery, presales/consulting side of enterprise platform vendors and/or systems integrators
  • Experienced delivery leader who understands the challenges and pitfalls of implementation; oversees the delivery side of these programs and has creative ideas to do it differently/better to disrupt this market
  • Experience focused on creating business value and partnering with a portfolio of enterprise solutions/vendors including Microsoft, Salesforce, Pega, Adobe, ServiceNow, AWS 
  • Experienced/proven trusted advisor to senior executives, strategic account management, new business development, presales through to client presentations
  • Ability to identify opportunities, bring together/work with enterprise platform vendors to put propositions to our clients and deploy cloud based solutions at expediated timeframes
  • Ability to thrive in a hypothesis-based environment and frame strategic challenges from a digital/tech perspective
  • Strong commercial and business acumen
  • Excellent communication, storylining, client-facing and presales skills
  • Strong commercial and business acumen
  • Strategic mindset, senior presence and gravitas
  • Bachelor’s degree, preferably in IT/Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline
  • Flexibility to travel within A/NZ, Asia Pacific region and globally as required.

Date Posted:

08-Aug-2022

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