About the Role
BCG Platinion is the fastest growing practice at BCG, focusing on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and superior business performance through data, technology, and digital solutions. Our consultants and experts work globally across all industries, providing deep experience in areas like Digital Transformation, Data & Digital Platforms, AI at Scale, Agile, Cybersecurity, and Digitizing the Tech Function.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate as interdisciplinary team players, seeking alignment and establishing relationships with cross-functional stakeholder groups and development teams.
- Think strategically, applying expertise in performance analysis to tackle difficult business challenges.
- Leverage extensive IT and digital expertise to drive novel solutions rooted in complexity.
- Work comfortably and confidently through ambiguity and the unknown.
- Act as change agents, aligning and onboarding teams to implement new processes, toolsets, and IT operating models.
- Build strong relationships to establish trust and influence stakeholders.
- Manage large-scale ERP (or similar) projects.
- Develop nuanced transformation roadmaps, cost estimations, and resource plans across internal and external parties.
- Define global and local deployment, program governance, and quality assurance strategies.
- Link financial performance and business strategy to digital solutions.
- Articulate and quantify value cases for large tech investments.
- Optimize value realization in ERP and similar solutions.
- Evaluate an organization’s IT, enterprise applications, data, analytics, integration, and AI solutions, particularly as it relates to packaged software platforms.
- Translate business needs into target state system requirements.
- Recommend packaged software vendors, modules, and configurations tailored to a client’s particular industry and context.
- Restructure ERP, HCM, EAM, CRM, etc. processes (functional and/or technical).
- Develop infrastructure approaches, including service-oriented architectures (SOA), and high-level design of ERP and related solutions.
- Restructure business/tech processes and organization/operating models within an ERP (or related) construct.
- Support tech functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.
- Develop team’s talent by providing direction and facilitating technical discussions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in mathematics, engineering, information technology, business management, or relevant field.
- 4+ years of practical experience in IT/ERP consulting, professional software development, or IT project management with a focus on SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, or Workday.
- Experience in business process design and configuration.
- Previous experience with independently managing modules/workstreams in two or more end-to-end ERP implementations in a waterfall or agile setting.
- Proven responsibility as a team lead within a single module during at least one project phase (Design, Build, Test, Deploy).
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills.
- Experience with the management of decision processes at large organizations.
- Strong customer and results orientation.
- Confidence and persuasiveness.
- Experience managing large, complex projects.
- Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response.
- Willingness to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams.
Skills
- Program Management & Governance
- ERP Project Management
- Transformation Roadmaps
- Cost Estimation
- Resource Planning
- Deployment Strategies
- Program Governance
- Quality Assurance
- Business Value Maximization
- Tech Investment Analysis
- Financial Performance Linking
- Business Strategy Linking
- Digital Solution Implementation
- Value Case Articulation
- Value Realization Optimization
- Solution Architecture & Design
- IT Solution Evaluation
- Enterprise Application Evaluation
- Data Solution Evaluation
- Analytics Solution Evaluation
- Integration Solution Evaluation
- AI Solution Evaluation
- Packaged Software Platforms
- Business Needs Translation
- System Requirements Definition
- Vendor Recommendation
- Module Recommendation
- Configuration Recommendation
- Process Restructuring
- Infrastructure Approach Development
- Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
- High-Level Design
- Cloud Deployment
- On-Premise Deployment
- Hybrid Deployment
- Organizational Change Management
- Business Process Restructuring
- Tech Process Restructuring
- Organization Model Restructuring
- Operating Model Restructuring
- Mergers and Acquisitions Support
- IT Department Transformation
- Talent Development
- Technical Discussion Facilitation
- SAP
- Salesforce
- Oracle
- Workday
- Gen AI Tool Fluency
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
- Travel required
Experience Level
- 4+ years of practical experience
- Team lead experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's or master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000 CAD base compensation
Benefits
- Best in class benefits
- Opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG
- Unified and unrivaled opportunity combining strategic thinking with hands-on applications
- Unique experience working alongside passionate and driven problem-solvers
- Supportive environment
- Eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus
- Retirement contribution
- Market leading benefits package
- Comprehensive benefits program
- 100% of premium costs for employees and eligible family members paid by BCG
- Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
- 100% coverage for prescription drugs, with no dispensing fee maximum
- Access to Telemedicine – virtual care
- Substantial mental health support, including mental health practitioner coverage and access to meditation and well-being apps
- Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits for children and adults
- Robust vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Account for additional medical and wellbeing activities
- Retirement contributions made annually
- Option for employees to make personal contributions to an RRSP Plan
- Premier Family programs including paid parental and family care leaves
- Reimbursement for fertility, surrogacy, and adoption expenses
- Generous paid time off
- 10 public holidays
- 2 floater days
- Office closure between Christmas and New Year’s
- 15 vacation days annually
- Paid sick time on an as needed basis
About the Company
- Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
- Our success depends on a spirit of deep collaboration and a global community of diverse individuals determined to make the world and each other better every day.
- BCG's Tech and Digital Advantage (TDA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and superior business performance through the use of data, technology and digital.
- BCG Platinion's presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America.
- We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenges.
- We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past.
- At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace.
- We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application and Risk functions.
- We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- BCG is an E - Verify Employer.
