About the Role
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. Platinion 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, 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.
- Serve as technical experts with extensive IT and digital expertise to drive novel solutions rooted in complexity.
- Navigate ambiguity and work comfortably through the unknown.
- Act as change agents, aligning and onboarding teams to implement new processes, toolsets, and IT operating models.
- Influence stakeholders by building strong relationships and trust.
- Manage large-scale ERP (or similar) projects.
- Develop nuanced transformation roadmaps, cost estimation, 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.
- Manage mid-to-senior level client relationships autonomously.
- Manage expectations and maintain control of situations when they escalate.
- Assist with business development through writing proposals and scoping projects.
- Contribute to thought leadership through written publications and speaking at events and conferences.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in mathematics, engineering, information technology, business management, or relevant field.
- 8+ years of practical experience in IT/ERP consulting, professional software development, or IT project management with a focus on one or more of the following: SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Workday.
- Previous experience in a management role in two or more end-to-end ERP implementations in a waterfall or agile setting.
- Demonstrated responsibility for two or more end-to-end ERP implementations, managing modules or workstreams throughout all program phases.
- Experience in business process design and configuration.
- 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 planning and 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
- ERP
- SAP
- Salesforce
- Oracle
- Workday
- Program Management
- Governance
- Transformation Roadmaps
- Cost Estimation
- Resource Planning
- Deployment Strategies
- Quality Assurance
- Business Value Analysis
- Tech Investments
- Value Cases
- Value Realization
- Solution Architecture
- Design
- IT Evaluation
- Enterprise Applications
- Data
- Analytics
- Integration
- AI Solutions
- Packaged Software Platforms
- System Requirements
- Vendor Recommendation
- Module Configuration
- Process Restructuring
- Infrastructure Approaches
- Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
- High-Level Design
- Cloud Deployment
- On-Premise Deployment
- Hybrid Deployment
- Organizational Change
- Operating Models
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Talent Development
- Client Management
- Thought Leadership
- Business Development
- Proposal Writing
- Project Scoping
- Written Publications
- Public Speaking
- Gen AI
- ChatGPT
- Claude
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
Experience Level
- 8+ years of practical experience
- Management role experience
- Mid-to-senior level client relationships
Education Level
- Bachelor's or master's degree in mathematics, engineering, information technology, business management, or relevant field.
Salary/Compensations
- $230,000 in USD
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.
- Eligibility for an annual discretionary performance bonus.
- BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution.
- Market leading benefits package.
- Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
- $10(USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs.
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually.
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
- Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not.
- Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
- Paid Parental Leave and 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.
- 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.
- Platinion is the fastest growing practice at BCG and at the heart of the strategic impact we have with our clients.
- 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.
