About the Role
Join BCG’s Agile Center of Excellence (CoE) as an Agile Delivery Manager (Global Senior Manager) to enable the agility and high-performance delivery of BCG’s internal Digital Product Organization. You will own and drive end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives, programs, and product increments from planning to production and stabilization, ensuring predictable, timely, and high-quality delivery aligned with business priorities.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives, programs, and product increments from planning to production and stabilization.
- Ensure predictable, timely, and high-quality delivery of initiatives, epics, and features aligned with business priorities and roadmaps.
- Manage dependencies, risks, and constraints across squads, platforms, and stakeholders to ensure smooth execution.
- Own delivery planning, sequencing, milestones, and execution tracking across teams.
- Ensure a clear path to production, including operational readiness and post-release follow-up.
- Apply agile practices pragmatically to support delivery outcomes rather than acting as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master.
- Work with Product Owners and technical leads to ensure delivery plans are realistic, prioritized, and executable.
- Support teams using agile ceremonies and artifacts to improve delivery predictability and flow.
- Improve delivery processes and tooling to reduce execution friction and enable faster, reliable releases.
- Plan and manage release execution, including readiness, cutover, and coordination with L2/L3 support teams.
- Ensure releases meet quality, risk, and compliance expectations.
- Support post-release activities to ensure stability and business continuity.
- Proactively identify delivery risks and issues that may impact timelines, scope, or quality.
- Drive mitigation plans and escalate when necessary to ensure delivery commitments are met.
- Resolve execution blockers by coordinating across teams and leadership.
- Track and report delivery metrics such as milestones, dependencies, predictability, lead time, and throughput.
- Use data-driven insights to identify delivery bottlenecks and areas for execution improvement.
- Provide clear delivery status, risks, and forecasts to senior stakeholders and portfolio leadership.
- Create dashboards and reports that give transparency into delivery progress and outcomes.
- Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and business stakeholders to align delivery with business objectives.
- Manage stakeholder expectations through clear communication, transparency, and realistic planning.
- Foster collaboration across squads while maintaining delivery accountability.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery effectiveness, execution models, and ways of working.
- Support teams in refining processes to improve efficiency, quality, and predictability.
- Apply lessons learned from delivery outcomes to improve future execution.
Requirements
- 13–15+ years of experience across a multitude of delivery management roles (e.g., Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Manager, Project/Program Manager, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Technology Delivery Lead).
- 10+ years of relevant experience leading complex technology or digital delivery initiatives in large-scale environments.
- Demonstrated agile coaching capabilities combined with 2–3 years of solid project and program management experience to support effective delivery governance.
- Proven track record of driving end-to-end delivery of enterprise-scale digital and technology programs, from planning through production and stabilization.
- Strong understanding of agile delivery models with the ability to apply them pragmatically to meet business objectives and execution outcomes.
- Experience working with OKRs; exposure to AI / GenAI-driven portfolios is a strong advantage.
- Deep understanding of the software delivery lifecycle, including release management, path to production, and operational readiness.
- Proven ability to manage complex interdependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations across large, matrixed organizations.
- Strong background in technology-enabled business transformation and enterprise-scale delivery execution.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills, with the ability to influence senior levels.
- Experience working in professional services or client-facing environments preferred.
Skills
- Jira
- Confluence
- Agile delivery models
- OKRs
- AI / GenAI
- Software delivery lifecycle
- Release management
- Path to production
- Operational readiness
- Stakeholder management
- Decision-making
- Communication
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 13-15+ years
Education Level
- Agile Delivery Management certification (Preferred)
- SAFe RTE / SAFe Scrum Master / SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification (Preferred)
- PMP certification (Preferred)
- Scrum certifications (PSM, CSM) (Value add)
About the Company
- 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 help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
- To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities.
- Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change.
- BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose.
- We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
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.
