The Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. 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. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenge. 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. 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. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design.
We support our clients’ total digital transformation through technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities. And together with BCG, BCG Platinion’s interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.
As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. As a Manager, you will work closely with our client's leadership teams to understand their key challenges, define IT strategies, win buy-in for your recommendations and lead BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance. You will deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms and architecture to leverage the digital potential of our customers with state-of-the-art tools such as cloud computing, AI, blockchain, microservices and containerization.
You will evaluate and coach our clients' technology teams, manage quality and risk while maintaining client expectations and escalations. Besides giving direction on the functional, execution and management of the project you will be given end-to-end responsibility for larger, highly technical and more complex modules within the project and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve our clients problems.
Together with our clients you will develop convincing IT strategies, concepts and solutions, applying your sound technical know-how along with your analytical and conceptual skills. You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadership directing diverse teams of consulting talent. Your role will also be to help team members flourish through thought leadership, team mentoring, knowledge sharing, giving frequent feedback and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow.
Finally, as a Manager you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a digital leader.
10 to 15 years' experience in Tech strategy and consulting or IT project management.
~ You will have relevant experience from a top consulting firm (focused on technology, digital initiatives) and have led the design and management of IT implementation and strategy projects.
~ Experience in the Insurance or finance industries, with strong technical expertise in banking or insurance platforms.
~ Strong expertise working with Data and Cloud technologies.
~ Able to present different architecture models to clients, develop MVP architecture and IT landscape modernisation roadmaps.
~ Deep expertise with modern toolsets in Agile environments, legacy modernization and modern approaches to technology.
~ Know-how to drive operational and client service excellence, presenting project results to C-Level.
~ Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide.
~ University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, engineering, or business administration.
~ For candidates based in London: Fluent in English.
~ Fluent in English; Dutch is highly desirable.
~ Fluent in English, with French or Flemish as an additional requirement.
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.