JHB - Digital Strategy Principal (DigitalBCG)

Location:

Johannesburg

Geography:

Africa

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

Our world is being driven by digital and at BCG we are at the heart of it. In DigitalBCG, you would use your expertise and generalist consulting skillset to help CEOs and their teams solve their most pressing challenges and think about how digital and technology will change the shape of their business. You would help your clients answer questions such as “How will AI disrupt my business model?”, “How can businesses use data and analytics to create highly-personalized outreach delivered through a seamless omnichannel experience?”, “How can I ship higher quality digital services to my customers faster by using agile?” and much more.

As a member of our team, you would work on a variety of these topics, applying your consulting skills to strategic digital, technology, and digital transformation questions. The responsibilities of this role include:

Collaboration and engagement with the client organization on management as well as
operational levels
Enabling the client to embrace your results and their applicability, taking an active role in
presenting key findings to C-level executives
Working closely with Partner teams to help leverage their expertise to support commercial
opportunities and drive growth—with an expanding geographic footprint
Developing BCG's expertise, build a team and develop an external network (e.g., client
counterparts, other industry, or functional experts) in your topic area

As a DigitalBCG Principal you will manage and lead the holistic program for clients, from scoping the work to day-to-day execution to ensure successful delivery of client requirements within the scope of the engagement. You will also lead, inspire and develop your team to help advance their consulting and digital skills, including sharing knowledge and experience, giving frequent feedback and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow. Finally, as a DigitalBCG Principal you will contribute to BCG’s intellectual capital, defining industry leading thinking, contributing to the Practice Area development, and helping build BCG’s brand as a digital leader.

It takes more than technology to reach this destination. We are seeking people who can challenge old assumptions, organize functions with a digital mindset, create new ways of working to support that, and

change the way people think, work, and lead

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

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

12+ years’ consulting experience, including leading consulting teams, OR have held a leadership role in industry, combined with 10+ years consulting experience
An outstanding academic track record from a leading university
Demonstrated experience managing the end-to-end product life cycle, recognized as world class expert, providing advice to CEOs and leading a team of experts

You will work with senior leaders from both BCG and clients to transform our clients’ organizations and lead a team of BCG Associates and Consultants as well as and often digital specialists, such as engineers, designers and data scientists, to deliver game changing outcomes for our clients.

We offer multiple career paths for the world’s best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return, we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible - and unlocking your potential to advance the world.

Date Posted:

07-Jun-2022

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