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About BCG Platinion
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 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. 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.
Enterprise Solutions Managers at BCG Platinion are:
- Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
- Agile advocates. They are well-versed in Agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn’t always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
- Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
- Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices.
- Influencers. They build strong relationships to build trust and influence stakeholders.
What You Are Good At
Planning Platform Solution Design and Deployment
- Developing feasibility studies, assessing platform suitability (e.g.,Kinaxis vs. o9) and issuing recommendations
- Supporting core planning process redesign and alignment with platform capabilities
- Leading technical demonstrations and proof-of-concept sessions for prospective clients
- Developing functional and non-functional requirements for planning platforms
- Leading full lifecycle implementations for Advanced Planning Systems (APS) in Supply Chain
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying UI/UX and Kinaxis configuration to support one or more of the following: IBP/S&OP, Demand/Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Order Fulfillment, Control Tower
- Experience conducting data discovery, mapping, transformation and normalization for APS use cases
- Developing integrated solution architecture designs for APS, ensuring integration with enterprise systems such as ERP, HRIS, and data platforms and warehouses, as well as custom analytics and insight applications (e.g., AI/ML prediction engines)
- Designing and implementing data integration patterns that allow for secure, performant and fast time-to-value deployments
- Creating implementation roadmaps, scoping and sizing effort for APS programs
- Ensuring that APS align with evolving technology landscapes (e.g., S/4HANA migration dependencies)
- Providing expert guidance on tooling options, offering clear, actionable insights into the advantages and trade-offs of each
Program Management, Value Realization and Business Impact
- Leading the creation of client-specific strategic materials, surfacing key insights gathered from technical experts and observations
- Leading the creation of client-specific strategic materials, surfacing key insights gathered from technical experts and observations
- Translating technical findings into business impact and opportunities that drive measurable improvements
- Effectively codifying messaging and data into presentable materials and being comfortable delivering communications output in an efficient manner – accuracy and speed are critical to success of fast-paced, high-profile projects
- Managing organizational change for new planning solutions by driving stakeholder engagement, adoption strategies, and training programs
- Restructuring IT processes and teams to optimize support for planning capabilities
- Aligning platform capabilities to deliver value-driven outcomes, such as: improved demand prediction, reduced inventory, optimized SG&A costs, reduced operating costs, etc.
- Establishing KPIs and value metrics to measure platform success and ensure ROI realization
- Presenting materials, case updates and escalations to client and internal teams
- Facilitating technical and strategic working sessions and workshops with
Team Management
- Building and nurturing relationships with key clients
- Providing direction on key work items and feedback to other team members
- Managing projects and expectations and maintaining control of situations when they escalate
- Provide quality assurance oversight – Review junior team members’ output for overall correctness, level of insight, clarity of message, etc.
- Drive consistency of technical work products, especially when working with external systems integration (SI) partners
- Promote an overall positive experience for junior staff
- Serve as a role model by actively demonstrating and living BCG’s Culture and Values
- Assisting with business development through writing proposals, scoping projects
- Bachelor or master’s degree in mathematics, natural sciences, information technology, business management, or relevant field
- 5+ years of practical experience leading APS implementations with Kinaxis, o9, Blue Yonder, SAP IBP, etc.
- Experience in business process design and configuration
- Experience managing cross-functional, global deployments for planning transformations
- Supply Chain domain knowledge
- Previous experience in a management role in two or more end-to-end planning platform implementations in a waterfall or agile setting
- 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. At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects
What We Offer:
At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally throughout your different life experiences including:
- An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer 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. BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world's best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible-and unlocking your potential to advance the world.
FOR U.S. APPLICANTS:
The base compensation for this role is $190,000 in USD. In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and retirement contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below. At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees - and their eligible family members. That's zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks.
All our plans provide best in class coverage:
- 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
- Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
- To learn more about our employee benefit please check our BCG Benefits page.
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