About the Role
BCG's Tech and Digital Advantage (TDA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through data, technology and digital. BCG Platinion sits within the TDA practice and is 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 in a wide variety of topics including Tech Advisory and Delivery, Architecture, Enterprise Solutions and Packaged Software, Cybersecurity, and Technology Risk Management. Our Tech Advisory and Delivery Chapter within BCG Platinion helps clients solve some of their most challenging problems through the development of superior IT concepts and tech solutions. The ideal candidate is both passionate as a consultant and technologist, and can bring their expertise to help develop customized, innovative client solutions.
Responsibilities
- Given end-to-end responsibility for an individual “module” within a BCG client engagement and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help solve client problems.
- Work on a variety of digital topics, applying generalist consulting skills to strategic digital & technology questions.
- Work with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, win buy-in for recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance.
- Help 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?”, and “How can I ship higher quality digital services to my customers faster by using agile?”.
- Act as a technical expert, critical thinker with extensive IT expertise that drives innovation for clients, rooted in practicality.
- Act as a collaborative, interdisciplinary team player who seeks alignment and establishes relationships.
- Be comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
- Act as a change agent, knowing how to make change happen across an organization at all levels.
- Align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets.
- Embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices.
- Act as an influencer, building strong relationships to build trust and influence stakeholders.
- Be versed in Agile methodologies and use expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement changes.
- Support digital transformation efforts by developing a digital strategy around data and digital analytics platforms, cloud infrastructure and technologies, data management capabilities, business IT architecture, software and product management (including Agile ways of working), and Tech, Enterprise Architecture and Data governance.
- Develop roadmaps and current state assessments for IT organizations in large companies across various industries.
- Orchestrate technical program delivery across business stakeholders, complex vendor landscapes and technology ecosystems.
- Provide IT Benchmarking and recommendations for IT cost take-out initiatives.
- Develop future state IT vendor landscape, vendor assessments/selections automation, tech cost benefits analysis, eCommerce, platform valuation and design.
- Support IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.
- Communicate the differences and benefits between multiple cloud computer providers and strategies for migrating from on-premise architecture.
- Utilize working knowledge and experience with GenAI and its potential use cases and client implications to deliver both practical and visionary solutions.
- Optimize business and IT processes within complex and heavily matrixed organizations and effectively communicate a path forward for clients and internal stakeholders.
- Deliver data and digital platforms using techniques such as Agile, DevSecOps, and Cloud native architectures.
- Lead the design, orchestration, and scaling of AI - and data-driven solutions, including LLM-based and agentic architectures.
- Guide teams in configuring, evaluating, and operationalizing AI systems with appropriate monitoring, safety, and cost controls.
- Oversee integration patterns enabling AI solutions to operate across enterprise systems, workflows, and data environments.
- Apply expertise in data platforms, ML Ops, and observability to ensure reliability, performance, and maintainability of AI solutions.
- Advise clients on AI cost management and optimization, balancing scalability, performance, and business value.
- Lead enterprise technology stack assessments and define target-state architectures across business domains (e.g., ERP, CRM, SCM, HCM).
- Shape platform strategy and design aligned to end-to-end business value chains and operating models.
- Guide clients through complex architectural tradeoffs involving cloud platforms, integration approaches, and modernization paths.
- Lead enterprise tool stack selection and vendor decision processes, balancing business value, feasibility, and long-term scalability.
- Own transformation roadmaps, sequencing initiatives across near-term delivery and long-term platform evolution.
- Translate business strategy into coherent technical execution plans and guide teams through implementation and adoption.
- Lead end-to-end design and implementation of Advanced Planning Systems (APS) and/or Agentic AI solutions across supply chain and operations domains.
- Define APS and Agentic AI architectures, integrations (e.g., ERP, HRIS, data platforms), and reporting/BI requirements aligned to business objectives.
- Translate planning strategies into platform roadmaps and configurations, quantifying business impact (e.g., forecast accuracy, inventory reduction, service level improvement, cost optimization).
- Lead vendor evaluation and selection processes, aligning platform capabilities to value-driven outcomes.
- Drive program execution and change leadership, including stakeholder alignment, training, adoption, and benefits realization.
- Provide team leadership, quality assurance oversight, and coordination with system integrators and delivery partners.
- Design and implement feasibility studies as well as recommend various software and platforms vendors within ERP systems and other packaged software.
- Consider data and integration related to the business needs and ERP systems and other packaged software.
- Manage large-scale ERP and IT projects / programs including overseeing quality assurance, deployment and all other key SDLC activities.
- Lead the creation of client-specific strategic materials, surfacing key insights gathered from technical experts and observations.
- Codify messaging and data into presentable materials and be comfortable delivering communications output in an efficient manner.
- Synthesize wide-ranging conversations, artifacts and best practices into clear, action-oriented recommendations.
- Assist with business development through writing proposals, scoping projects.
- Contribute to thought leadership through written publications and speaking at events and conferences.
- Present materials, case updates and escalations to client and internal teams.
- Facilitate technical and strategic working sessions and workshops with both client and internal teams.
- Provide direction on key work items and feedback to other team members.
- Build relationships with key clients.
- Manage junior team members by defining and organizing their “module”, helping them structure their work and associated analyses.
- Mentor and coach junior team members by building mutual development agreements and manufacturing opportunities for them to grow and develop along explicitly defined objectives.
- Provide quality assurance oversight - Review junior team members’ output for overall correctness, level of insight, clarity of message, etc.
- Promote an overall positive experience for junior staff.
- Serve as a role model by actively demonstrating and living BCG’s Culture and Values.
Requirements
- Bachelors or Master degree in information technology, computer science, economics, supply chain, logistics or system engineering, business management/administration, or relevant field.
- 2+ years of practical experience in IT/ERP consulting, professional software development, product and program implementation.
- Preferred experience with at least one of the following: Custom software solutions, Ecommerce platforms, Cloud platforms, SAP, Salesforce, Oracle (Financials, NetSuite, Fusion, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, etc.).
- Exceptional learning and ramp up skills, especially on IT topics such as data and digital platforms.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills.
- Outstanding ability to work creatively, autonomously, analytically, in a fast-paced problem-solving environment with a focus on customer and results.
- GenAI tool fluency (e.g., demonstrated use of GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of responses.
- Willingness to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams.
- At times, this role may involve up to 80% travel to client sites and BCG offices.
Skills
- AI & Data Implementation
- Technology Stack Transformation
- Advanced Planning Systems and Agentic AI for Supply Chain
- ERP systems
- Packaged software
- Data and integration
- Agile
- DevSecOps
- Cloud native architectures
- GenAI
- LLM-based and agentic architectures
- ML Ops
- Observability
- ERP
- CRM
- SCM
- HCM
- Advanced Planning Systems (APS)
- IBP/S&OP
- Demand and supply planning
- Inventory optimization
- Fulfillment
- Control tower use cases
- Written communication
- Presentation
- Facilitation
- Team Management
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
- Travel up to 80%
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelors or Master degree
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000 CAD
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.
- Retirement contribution.
- Market leading benefits package.
- 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 when you need it.
- 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 (whether you contribute or not), plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to an RRSP Plan.
- Premier Family programs including, paid parental and family care leaves, and reimbursement for fertility, surrogacy, and adoption expenses.
- Generous paid time off, including 10 public holidays and 2 floater days, office closure between Christmas and New Year’s, and 15 vacation days (earned at 1.25 days per month) 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 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.
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