About the Role
BCG Platinion is the fastest growing practice at BCG, focusing on helping clients achieve competitive advantage and superior business performance through data, technology, and digital solutions. We partner with leaders to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities, driving material change and positive, long-term impact.
Responsibilities
- Act as an interdisciplinary team player, seeking alignment and establishing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and development teams.
- Utilize expertise in performance analysis to tackle difficult business challenges.
- Apply critical thinking and extensive IT/digital expertise to drive novel solutions for complex problems.
- Navigate ambiguity and work through unknown situations to define the best path forward.
- Drive organizational change by aligning and onboarding teams to implement new processes, toolsets, and IT operating models.
- Build strong relationships to foster trust and influence stakeholders.
- Manage large-scale ERP or similar projects.
- Develop transformation roadmaps, cost estimations, and resource plans involving 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 technology investments.
- Optimize value realization in ERP and similar solutions.
- Evaluate an organization's IT, enterprise applications, data, analytics, integration, and AI solutions, especially for packaged software platforms.
- Translate business needs into target state system requirements.
- Recommend packaged software vendors, modules, and configurations tailored to client needs.
- Restructure ERP, HCM, EAM, CRM, etc. processes.
- Develop infrastructure approaches, including service-oriented architectures and high-level design of ERP and related solutions.
- Restructure business/tech processes and organization/operating models within an ERP construct.
- Support tech functions during mergers and acquisitions, including IT department transformation.
- Develop team talent by providing direction and facilitating technical discussions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in mathematics, engineering, information technology, business management, or a relevant field.
- 2+ 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 independently managing modules/workstreams in at least two end-to-end ERP implementations (waterfall or agile).
- Proven responsibility as a team lead within a single module during at least one project phase.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills.
- Experience managing decision processes at large organizations.
- Strong customer and results orientation.
- Confidence and persuasiveness.
- Experience managing large, complex projects.
- Gen AI tool fluency and validation of responses.
- Willingness to travel globally to work with clients and BCG teams.
Skills
- Program Management & Governance
- ERP Project Management
- Transformation Roadmap Development
- Cost Estimation
- Resource Planning
- Global Deployment Strategy
- Program Governance
- Quality Assurance Strategy
- Business Value Maximization
- Tech Investment Value Cases
- ERP Value Optimization
- Solution Architecture & Design
- IT Solution Evaluation
- Enterprise Application Evaluation
- Data & Analytics Solution Evaluation
- Integration Solution Evaluation
- AI Solution Evaluation
- Packaged Software Platform Expertise
- Business Needs Translation
- System Requirements Definition
- Software Vendor Recommendation
- Module Configuration Recommendation
- Process Restructuring
- Infrastructure Approach Development
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Cloud Deployment
- On-Premise Deployment
- Hybrid Deployment
- Organizational Change Management
- Mergers and Acquisitions Support
- IT Department Transformation
- Team Development
- Technical Discussion Facilitation
- SAP
- Salesforce
- Oracle (Financials, NetSuite, Fusion, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, etc.)
- Workday
- Business Process Design
- Business Process Configuration
- Waterfall Methodology
- Agile Methodology
- Team Leadership
- Communication Skills
- Presentation Skills
- Analytical Skills
- Conceptual Skills
- Decision Process Management
- Customer Orientation
- Results Orientation
- Confidence
- Persuasiveness
- Complex Project Management
- Gen AI Tool Fluency
- Travel Adaptability
Location
- Atlanta
- Austin
- Boston
- Brooklyn
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Denver
- Detroit
- Durham
- Houston
- Miami
- Minneapolis
- Nashville
- New York
- Philadelphia
- Pittsburgh
- Summit
- Washington
Work Type
- Full-time
- Travel required
Experience Level
- 2+ years of practical experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's or master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000
Benefits
- An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, offering a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.
- A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.
- Eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus.
- Eligible for a retirement contribution.
- Market-leading benefits package.
- Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
- $10 (USD) copays for doctor visits, urgent care visits, and generic drug prescriptions.
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
- Vision insurance with annual coverage for glasses and contact lenses.
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually.
- Generous paid time off including vacation and holidays.
- Annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
- Paid Parental Leave.
- Other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.
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.
